Isabelle Duverger is an award-winning French painter and installation artist based in New York, working between the US and Europe. Her work includes paintings, public art with projection mapping on buildings, immersive interactive video and sound installations, projection art for theater and dance, video-art and animation.
As a painter, she has exhibited and sold her work throughout the USA and the UK. Her work is mostly figurative, focused on the relationship between emotions and body language.
As an installation artist, together with Laia Cabrera, she launched the World’s largest video interactive public art installation “The Now” (Port Authority Bus Terminal, Times Square, New York), “Dream-e-scape” (Flutter Experience Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Microwave Festival, Honk Kong; Film Criticism Conference, Riyadh, KSA). Immersive video art installations include “Qualia – You Matter to Me” (Prelude Festival NYC), “Aire” (Tempietto di Bramante Roma, Italy, Washington DC and Poughkeepsie).
Isabelle Duverger is an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant awards Jersey City Arts & Culture Trust Fund
2023 fellow and Hybrid Vision – Panasonic Digital Art Award and Motion Award Nominee.
Her work has been presented in renowned venues such as Spring/Break Art Show, Times Square Plaza, St John the Divine Cathedral, BAM in New York, NJPAC, Nuit Blanche Washington DC, Teatros del Canal, Madrid and Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Center, Barcelona, Spain, Tempietto Di Bramante, Roma, Italy, Hong Kong City Hall among others.
Artist Statement
We live in a connected world, where inspiration comes from our surrounding, whether it is emotions, the physical environment, people. It is a constant feed, and I try to grasp it and be a translator.
My work is a combination of illustrations and hand-crafted animations, the pursuing of new languages through technology and immersive designs to create environments for the audience to explore. But… I departed from painting, which I have rekindled with and worked on over the past four years. Growing up in France, I was taught the insatiable desire to break from past conventions, inspired by the Impressionists and the Nouveau Realists, and I have been exploring my heritage as a Kabyle person in a very careful manner, in my most recent work.
A lot of my work revolves around emotions, particularly the relationship between longing, caring and its physical demonstration. I am also fascinated by patterns of nature and its dialogue with our humanity.