Chantal Joffe USA, b. 1969

Biography
"Chantal Joffe. Portrait, 2015. Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro, London. Photography by Nicholas Sinclair."
"Chantal Joffe. Portrait, 2015. Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro, London. Photography by Nicholas Sinclair."

 

Lives and works in London.

Joffe studied at the Royal College of Art and was awarded the Royal Academy Woollaston Prize in 2006. 

 Joffe’s paintings almost always depict women or girls, sometimes in groups but in iconic portraits, and they alert us about appearances which are carefully constructed and codified. Tensions between the large scale of the work and the apparent intimacy of the scene depicted heighten complex narratives about connection, perception and representation.

 She has had exhibits at the National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík; National Portrait Gallery, London; Jewish Museum, New York; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; 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; Galleri KB, Oslo; and Bloomberg Space, London.

 Her work belongs to collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Arts Council of England; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France; Saatchi Collection, London; Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Portugal; UK Government Art Collection; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; among others.

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