Clotilde Jiménez
From the Collage Series, 2015.
About:
Clotilde Jiménez (b. Honolulu, Hawaii, 1990) is a visual artist based in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2013. Jiménez has also been awarded the Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curator Program by MOCA Cleveland in 2015, and was the studio visit recipient of Curator Naomi Beckwith of the MCA Chicago. Additionally, he was selected by jury for the London Intensive at the Slade School of Fine Art, London 2015. Jiménez has exhibited nationally and internationally in France, Iceland, US, and UK.
From the Collage Series, 2015.
His work celebrates marginalized peoples while simultaneously exploring the boundaries of race, gender, and sexuality as seen through his lens – a lens being both a black and hispanic American male. The work of Jiménez poetically transcribes and reconstructs the societal idée fixe of the black body in popular culture. Although the experience behind Jiménez’s work is subjective, there exists a level of symbolism that is universal, that ultimately explores the boundaries of what is means to just be.
From the Stay Black Series, 2013-2014.
From the Stay Black Series, 2013-2014.
His work is featured in noted public collections including; The Fljótstunga Art Collection, Reykholt, Iceland | Punta Las Marías, Puerto Rico | Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA | Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH | Cleveland School of the Arts, Cleveland, OH | Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH | and the private collections of Dr. Rita Goodman, Cleveland, OH | Jacquie Wynn Kennedy, Cleveland, OH | Colin Lively, New York, NY
Mujeres, 2014-2015.