biography

États-unis, new-york

Jamie Isenstein was born in 1975 in Portland, Oregon, and currently lives and works in New York. In 2003, she won the Agnes Martin Award, and one year later graduated with an MFA from Columbia University in New York. She has participated in international exhibitions including at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Liverpool Biennial and the MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York.

Public Art

Parvis de l’église Saint-Roch

Photographies.

In a public setting, a series of photographs evokes bodily exertion with images of blood, sweat and tears. In what look like promotional posters, the photographs depict the redundancy and double artifice of the titles, with images of imitations of existing products, which themselves in turn are simulations of bodily fluids. And nearby, in Waxworks, the artist poses among wax figures at Madame Tussauds. Standing stock-still, she is trying to become an object like the other effigies surrounding her.

Jamie Isenstein Fake Fake Blood, 2016 C-print 101.6 x 76.2 cm Photo credit: courtesy the artist and Meyer Riegger, Germany
Jamie Isenstein Artificial Artificial Tears, 2016 C-print 101.6 x 76.2 cm Photo credit: courtesy the artist and Meyer Riegger, Germany
Jamie Isenstein Synthetic Synthetic Sweat, 2016 C-print 101.6 x 76.2 cm Photo credit: courtesy the artist and Meyer Riegger, Germany
Jamie Isenstein Waxworks, 2009 C-print 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photo credit: courtesy the artist and Meyer Riegger, Germany Photographer: Jason Schmidt [All images of wax figures depicted are owned and created by Madame Tussauds, NY]