Clotilde Jimenez
Honolulu, Hawaii, 1990 -
Jiménez’ work celebrates the nuances of being a queer and Afro-Latino male while exploring the limitations placed on the body in light of race, gender and sexuality. Although the experience behind Jiménez’s work is subjective, a level of universal symbolism is present, ultimately exploring rigid definitions of ‘Blackness.’
The artist emphasizes, “the work became a tapestry of my life that transcribes and reconstructs the societal idée fixe of the black body in popular culture, while also undermining the notions of gender normativity within a black subjectivity.”
(https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/34-clotilde-jimenez/biography/)
Jiménez has exhibited at The Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando; Phillips, New York; the Slade School of Fine Art, London; and the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle. He earned his MFA from The Slade School of Fine Art, and his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
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National City, California, 1931 - 2020, Venice, California
b. 1929, Bronx, New York; d. 2023, New York, New York
The Bronx, New York, 1940 - 2017, Manhattan, New York
