Chloe Wise: Artist Overview | Almine Rech (2024)

Chloe Wise (b. 1990, Montreal, Canada) lives and works in New York, New York.

Chloe Wise’s practice spans diverse media, including painting, sculpture, video and installation.
Foregrounding an interest in the history of portraiture, Wise examines the multiple channels that lead to the construction of a Self, paying particular attention to the interweaving of consumption and image making. With a wry sense of humour, she nods to canonical tableaux, like Manet’s Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe, exploring the shared projected desires built around food and the female body. Meticulously hand painted casts of food serve as the base for the artist’s sculptural practice where strange assemblies, now frozen in sculpted plastic, toy with the presence and absence of unchangeability and perishability, fiction and reality. Advertising, fashion, taboo, multi-national brands—Wise looks to the consumptive habits built around these structures with parody and derision, underlying how the body is framed and becomes excessive in its manipulation of these sites.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Chloe Wise: Natural Causes at The Ranch, Montauk, New York (2023); Told A Vision presented at Art Basel Parcours, Basel, Switzerland (2023); In Loveliness of Perfect Deeds at Blouin Division, Montréal, Canada (2022); Spite Unseen, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland (2022); Thank You For The Nice Fire, Almine Rech, New York, USA (2021); Second Nature, Almine Rech, Online (2020); And Everything Was True, Heart Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark (2019); Not That We Don't Almine Rech London, UK (2019); Spitting Image, The Journal Gallery, New York, US (2019); Coast unclear seeks rained parade, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland (2018); and Of false beaches and butter money, Almine Rech Paris, France (2017).

Notable group exhibitions have been featured at institutions including: Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (2024); McLennon Pen Co. Gallery, Austin, TX (2023); Passerelle centre d'art contemporain, Brest, France (2022); LACMA, Los Angeles, California, US (2022); The Andy Warhol Museum, Pennsylvania, US (2021); Kasmin Gallery, New York, US (2021); Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, US (2021); James Fuentes, New York, US (2019); and Gagosian, New York, US (2019).