Chantal Joffe USA, b. 1969

Chantal Joffe was born in St. Albans, Vermont, in 1976.

She lives and works in London. She studied at the Royal College of Art in London, which awarded her the Charles Woollaston Award for the most outstanding work in the exhibition in 2006.

Joffe's paintings almost always depict women or girls. Sometimes they are in a group, and sometimes alone, but they are always iconic portraits that alert us to the careful coding that sustains a system of appearances in our society. The artist expresses complex narratives about connection, perception, and representation, creating contrasts between the formats of the works and the intimacy of the scenes they depict.

Joffe has exhibited at the National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik; National Portrait Gallery, London; Jewish Museum, New York; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Saatchi Gallery, London; MODEM, Hungary; Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow; Il Capricorno, Venice; Neuberger Museum of Art, New York; MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art; Royal Academy of Arts, London; KB, Oslo; and Bloomberg Space, London.