Isabelle Duverger

Isabelle Duverger is an award winning French painter and installation artist based in New York, working between the US and Europe. She is a graduate of Estienne School of Art in graphic communications in Paris. She also has a MBA in Arts Management from Audencia Nantes, France and ASB, Aarhus, Denmark. She is the cofounder of Laia Cabrera & Co. created in 2010, and her expertise is in animation, videography and projection mapping. 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.

"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 be a translator. My work ranges from paintings to immersive interactive installations and the pursuit of new languages through technology. A lot of my work revolves around the observation of patterns, imaginary landscapes and how the human presence interacts in it."

As a painter, she has exhibited and sold her work throughout the USA and the UK. her work is mostly figurative, most of them portraying the embrace of two women. Her work is focused on the relationship between emotions and body language.

As an installation artist, she launched the World's largest video interactive public art installation "The Now" (October 2018 - February 2019, September 2020, Port Authority Bus Terminal, Times Square, New York), she cosigned with Laia Cabrera the interactive immersive video and sound art installations "Dream-e-scape" (Flutter Experience Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022-2023; Microwave Media Arts Festival, Honk Kong City Hall, 2022; Film Criticism Conference, Riyadh, KSA, 2023), "Within Reach" (Art Wall Coolvines Powerhouse, Jersey City, 2020), "Illusion" (Flutter Experience Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 2019-2020), and "Self on the Shelf" (Spring Break Art Show 2018, as part of the Armory Arts Week, New York). Immersive video art installations include "Perennial Land" (Hall of Fame Gallery, CUNY and Tree House Amsterdam, 2024), "Qualia - You Matter to Me" (Prelude Festival NYC 2023, Gardenship and Newark Arts, 2024), "Close-Up / Primer Pla" (Sant Jordi Festival 2022, White Space Gallery New York and Coral Gable Museum, Miami, 2021). Public art projection mapping installations and performances include as "Aire" (Tempietto di Bramante Roma, Italy, 2014, Art All Night Washington DC, 2015, Poughkeepsie, 2016), "Dragons, Books and Roses" (Sant Jordi in New York 2017) "Untitled Mind", implemented as an indoor/outdoor video and sound installation (Nuit Blanche-Art All Night, Washington DC, 2013), "City In Motion" curated by Reebok Creative Lab (2014), a one-year video installation with Mapping for the Pop-Up Store Pikolinos in the Meatpacking district (NYC, 2013), the video-performance-concert "Walk-Pasa-Bouge" (New York - Brussels, 2009-2011), the installation-performances "Claim Your Place" (Centro Español NYC - Tournefeuille, France, 2010), "Shifting Gaze" (Spain Art Fest '10, Times Square, New York, 2010, Region Ø, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of NYU, 2011, Georgetown Glow, Washington DC, 2015) and "Resonant Streams" (The Value of Water series in the Cathedral Saint John The Divine, New York, 2011).

She often collaborate as projection mapping artist and illustrator/animator for performance and theater plays such as "People Place Disruption" and "Falling Sky" in collaboration with Nimbus Dance (NJPAC, 2019 & 2021), "Gruesome Playground Injuries" by Rajiv Joseph (The Art House, 2024), "Lines in the Dust" by Nikkole Salter "Trojan Women" by Euripides and "Prologue" by Maria Litvan (JCTC, 2018-2019), the musical "Allerleirauh" (Alvin Ailey Theater, 2023), "Sincronizada" by Mar Gómez Glez (Teatro Del Canal, Festival Talent Madrid Finalist, 2016, MicroTeatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017), "Mapping Mobius" (La Mama Theater, NYC, 2010), "Road to Happiness" (Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, 2011), "Garden of Delights" (Theater for the New City, NYC, 2012), "Cosmicomics", by Italo Calvino (Dixon Place, NYC, 2014; New Stage Performance Space, NYC, 2022), "La Jaula Bajo El Trapo" (King Juan Carlos Center of NYU, NYC, 2008), "Playing Equality" (NYC, 2009 and Valencia, Spain, 2010), "Night" by Charles Mee, (Theater For the New City, NYC, 2015), "Ronensbourgh" by Beatriz Cabur (IATI theater, NYC, 2015), "The Dark Stone" by Alberto Conejero (Repertorio Español, NYC, 2022), "Emilie" by Radegund Hain (TNC, 2015), "Else & Henry" by Puy Navarro (Espacio Inestable, Valencia, Spain, 2017 and Teatro El Extranjero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2022) among others.

She recently created the short animated film “Distance to the Moon” written by Italo Calvino, "Micro-Universe" a painting videoart piece, co-created the music video "9th Configuration" by the rentals, a docu-animation for the Center for Popular Democracy (2017), the opening and closing credits of the feature film "White Alligator" (2012), animations for the short film "Is there an edge of Belief?" (Jaen Femenino, Spain 2009 - Biennale of Art of Venezuela, Merida, 2010) and the music video "All I Wanna Do" by Erica Glyn.

Isabelle Duverger is a three-time New York Innovative Theater Awards nominee for Outstanding Innovative Design (Projection Design, Video-Art and Animations) in 2015 for "Night" at the Theater for the New City, in 2014 for "Cosmicomics" at Dixon Place, and in 2013 for "Garden of Delights" at the Theater for the New City, 2013, and 2015 NYIT award winner for "Night" Outstanding Performance Art Production with the New Stage Theatre Company. She is also the recipient of the AVA 2013 and Telly Awards 2013 for Outstanding Animation, Bronze Telly Awards 2014 for Outstanding Art Direction and Silver Telly 2016 (highest distinction) for Outstanding Directing.

She has performed in renowned venues such as Times Square Plaza, St John the Divine Cathedral, Central Park Summer Stage, BAM, New York, NJPAC, NJ, Nuit Blanche Washington DC, Tempietto Di Bramante, Rome, Italy, Teatros Del Canal, Madrid and Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain, Honk Kong City Hall, Riyadh Cultural Palace among others.