Artistic CV
ISABELLE DUVERGER
Multimedia and Visual Artist
New York – Paris
Isabelle Duverger is a French award-winning visual artist based in Jersey City for the past fifteen years. 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. She is a 2021 Motion Award Nominee in the category Interactive/Experiential – Installation, 2022 Hybrid Vision Panasonic Digital Art Competition Nominee for Interactive Digital Art and three-time New York Innovative Theater Awards nominee for Outstanding Innovative Design. Her work has been presented in renowned venues such as Spring/Break Art Show (Armory Arts Week), Central Park Summer Stages, Times Square Plaza and St John the Divine Cathedral, La Mama, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York, NJPAC, Flutter Experience Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Nuit Blanche and Georgetown Glow, Washington DC, Teatros del Canal, Madrid and Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Center, Barcelona, Spain, Tempietto Di Bramante, Roma, Italy, Hong Kong City Hall among others.
IMMERSIVE INSTALLATIONS / INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS
2024 SHIFTING GAZE - ROOTED at "Ward Mount: A Mother of Many Daughters" group exhibition, Museum of Jersey City History, NJ
2024 PERENNIAL LAND video & sound immersive installation, The Hall of Fame Art Gallery at the Bronx Community College, NY,
Art Park II: Voice of Nature group exhibition, Amsterdam, The Nederlands
2023-24 QUALIA - YOU MATTER TO ME video & sound immersive installation, Jersey City Theater Center, NJ, JCAST &
Prelude Festival 2023 Women Heavy group exhibition, Gardenship Gallery, Kearny, NJ, Newark Arts Festival 2024, Newark Arts Gallery, NJ
2022-23 DREAM-E-SCAPE video & sound immersive interactive installation, Flutter Experience, Los Angeles, CA; Microwave Media
Arts Festival, Hong Kong; Film Criticism Forum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Hybrid Vision - Panasonic 2022 Nominee)
2022-24 SLIMEY MIRROR immersive video and sound art installation, Sloomoo Institute, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles 2022 INTO THE DEEP video immersive installation, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2021-24 CLOSE-UP/PRIMER PLA video & sound immersive installation, White Space Gallery Chelsea, NYC, Coral Gables Museum,
Miami, FL Jersey City Theater Center, NJ, The Dumbo Loft, Brooklyn, NY, The 6th Floor Loft, NYC
2021 VIATJE-JOURNEY, immersive video and sound art installation, Catalan Delegation, Washington, DC
2019-21 ILLUSION, interactive immersive video and sound art installation, Flutter Experience, Los Angeles, CA
(Motion Award 2021 Nominee)
2020-21 SANT JORDI NYC (online) festival with virtual projection mapping of the Flatiron, Web-Augmented Reality app, Livestream and
online platform, New York
2020 WITHIN REACH, interactive video and sound art installation, Art Wall Coolvines Powerhouse, Jersey City, NJ
2018-20 THE NOW Public Art Interactive LED Wall Installation, Port Authority Bus Terminal, Times Square, New York (Largest Interactive Art
Wall in New York). Created by Isabelle Duverger and Laia Cabrera, Interactivity by NoirFlux, Curated by Coolture New York
2018 SHIFTING GAZE, UNTITLED MIND and QUANTUM site specific video installations with mapping at JCAST HQ, Jersey City, NJ
2018 SELF ON THE SHELF Immersive Interactive Site-Specific Video and Sound Installation, Selected at the Spring/Break Art Show (Part
of the Armory Arts Week), Times Square, New York. Created by Isabelle Duverger and Laia Cabrera, Interactivity by Nicola
Carpegianni, Curated by Christine Miele
2017 DRAGONS BOOKS AND ROSES Projection Mapping for St Jordi New York Festival, Deutsches Haus at NYU, University Place,
New York City, NY Commissioned by the Farragut Fund for Catalan Culture
2016 MADRID WORLD PRIDE Triptych Video Installation commissioned by the city of Madrid, White Box Gallery, SoHo, New York
2016 AIRE: VISUAL CONCERT FOR NOMADS Site-Specific Visual Concert and Projection Design, Underwear Factory, Poughkeepsie,
Hudson Valley New York, as a large scale 5000 sq/ft visual concert performed live with an ensemble orchestra and sponsored by
Art Mid Hudson, NYSCA. Created by Laia Cabrera (Film Direction), Javier Moreno Sanchez (Music Direction) and Isabelle Duverger
(Video Mapping, Animations)
2016 LA NOCHE FROM SPAIN Video mapped Installation, Institute Cervantes, NewYork with Javier Moreno (production), Laia Cabrera
(Visual Direction) and Isabelle Duverger (Video Mapping, Animations)
2015 SHIFTING GAZE @ GLOW Film-Art-Music installation conceived and directed by Laia Cabrera, Music by Erica Glyn, Animations and
Mapping by Isabelle Duverger, Georgetown Glow Festival, Washington DC projected on the main Wall of the Georgetown Canal as
a large site-specific immersive video mapped installation and commissioned by the Georgetown Business improvement District (BID)
and the Spanish Embassy in DC.
2015 AIRE VISUAL CONCERT FOR NOMADS Site-Specific Visual Concert and Projection Design, Art All Night, Washington DC, projected
at the Neoclassical building of the Bank of America as a large scale visual concert performed live with an ensemble orchestra and
sponsored by the DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities, DC.
2015 THE GARDEN PARTY Video mapped Installation, Institute Cervantes, New York in collaboration with Javier Moreno (production)
and Laia Cabrera (Visuals)
2015 THE SUPREME PRICE: AN EVENING WITH HAFSAT ABIOLA Video Installation Soho, New York City. Hafsat Abiola, Nigerian
human rights, civil rights and democracy activist, and the founder of KIND, a not-for-profit organization focusing primarily on Nigeria
2015 DOLLARS FOR THIEVES Indoor/Outdoor Video Installation. Music by Erica Glyn. Matt Torrey's, Williamsburg, New York
2014 CITY IN MOTION Video mapped Installation commissioned by Reebok, White Box Gallery, SoHo, New York in collaboration with
Javier Moreno (production) and Isabelle Duverger (Video Mapping, Animations)
2014 AIRE Video Installation Performance Concert, Tempietto Di Bramante – Rome, Italy with Laia Cabrera (Film Direction), Javier Moreno
(Music Direction), Isabelle Duverger (Video Mapping), Isabel Cadenas (Poetry) and Lucia Miranda (Stage Management)
2013 UNTITLED MIND Indoor and Outdoor Video and sound installation with mapping in collaboration with Isabelle Duverger,
Wonderbread Factory, Nuit Blanche, Washington DC
2013 BON BAGAY: ART AUCTION AND CHARITY EVENT FOR HAITI Mixed media projection and mapping, Raw Space, Harlem,
New York.
2013 PIKOLINOS POP-UP STORE Video Installation Mapping Meatpacking District, NYC,
listed as the 10 best designed stores in the world
2013 MAASAI PROJECT Video mapped sound installation/lab/exhibit about the Maasai women in Kenya, commissioned by Pikolinos,
Pop up Store-NY Chelsea, New York
2011 RESONNANT STREAMS: AN ANCIENT CALL" (large site-specific visual installation performance) in collaboration with LiquidBody
Dance Company. “The Value of Water” series at the Cathedral Saint John The Devine in New York, November 2011
2011 SHIFTING GAZE Video Installation Performance, presented in Region Zero Festival, King Juan Carlos I Of Spain Center Of
New York University, New York
2010 CLAIM YOUR PLACE (Video-Installation-Performance) Conceived and directed by Laia Cabrera and Nuria Legarda. Performed at
Centro Español NYC, New York, NY, May 2010. Tournefeuille Festival Les Nuits Euphoriques, France, June 2010. Festival New
Tendencies Terrassa (TNT), Spain. September 2010. Festival Cos Reus, Spain, October 2010. Project commissioned by Topia Arts
Center, CAER and CAET with funding from Consell Nacional de la Cultura I de les Arts (CONCA), Catalunya, Spain
EXHIBITIONS PAINTING/PHOTOGRAPHY
2024 LOVE # 3 at Newark Arts Festival, NICO'S NJPAC, Newark, NJ
2024 VIEW FROM THE MOON and A JOURNEY AROUND THE SUN in "All Things Great and Small" — ART150 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2024 ROOTED #1 & #2 in "Ward Mount: A Mother of Many Daughters" group exhibition, Museum of Jersey City History, NJ
2024 LOVE # 3 in Cathedral Arts Festival 2024 — Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ
2024 LIPS & EMBRACE in Touch exhibition curated by Lucy Rovetto — ART150 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2024 VIEW FROM THE MOON and A JOURNEY AROUND THE SUN in Drawing Beyond the Frame, LIC-Artist, The Factory, NY
2023 WOMAN in #2000bananas fundraising show, Art Fair 14C, Jersey City, NJ
2023 CANDYLAND in Tickled Pink exhibition curated by Tina Maneca, Newport Mall, Jersey City, NJ
2023 REPOSE in public art exhibition The Surprising Thing About Gratitude, curated by Walk Bye, Canco Park, Jersey City, NJ
2022-23 LOVE # 7, 8 & 9 at the Affordable Art Show, Art House Gallery, Jersey City
2022 ROOTED #1 & #2 at JCAST Community Gallery West, Jersey City, NJ
2022 ROOTED #1 & #2 in exhibition Resilient 2 curated by Ivy Brown — Pro Arts, ART150 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2022 VOTE in exhibition Real Democracy curated by Walk Bye, Miller Branch Library, Jersey City, NJ
2022 ROOTED in EXQUISITE CORPSE group exhibition - Nimbus Arts Center, Jersey City, NJ
2021 IMMERSION Retrospective Exhibition with Laia Cabrera - Contemporary Identities Online Art Magazine & Gallery
2021 LOVE # 1 in “RENAISSANCE”, A Revival!, Art House Gallery at 150 Bay, Jersey City, NJ - Part of JCAST 2021
2021 WINDOW WITH VINES in PLANTS - The Syzygy Project
2021 GREEN - MOTHER NATURE in RAINBOW, Jersey City Free Public Library, Jersey City, NJ
2021 CITY BIRDS and WHITE BIRD in ANIMALS - The Syzygy Project
2021 LOVE # 8 - One: Pride - Online Walk Bye exhibition in Artsteps
2021 WINDOW WITH VINES - LEMONADE group exhibition, Project Greenville - Art House JC - Jersey City, NJ
2021 LOVE # 4 - The Women - City Hall & Berry Lane Park, Jersey City, NJ, Paterson Poetry Festival, NJ
2021 LOVE # 2 & 3 - PEOPLE PLACE DISRUPTION group exhibition - Nimbus Arts Center, Jersey City, NJ
2021 WE THE PEOPLE - /?rad?k(?)l/, Congregation B’nai Jacob - Jersey City, NJ
2020 WINDOW WITH VINES - WALK_BYE JCAST, Jersey City, NJ
2012 REBIRTH - SixBetweenTheArts - New York, NY
ANIMATION & VIDEOART
2021 THE WAY TO WIN (Short Animated Fim) for Women in Need, New York, NY
2020 MICRO-UNIVERSE (Videoart Short Fim)
2020-22 SANT JORDI NYC 2020 (ONLINE) FESTIVAL online platform, New York, NY
2018 DISTANCE TO THE MOON Short Animated Film, France/USA, text by Italo Calvino
2018 THE SUBLIME CONNECTION (Videoart Short Fim) co-created with Laia Cabrera, presented at the Hamptons Jewelry Show
2017 HOW WE WORK (Short Animated Fim) for the Center for Popular Democracy, New York, NY
2017 TAKSU (court-métrage documentaire) co-created with Laia Cabrera, presented at Vogue
2016 STOP THE HANGRY (Animation) Beefsteak – Food Inc
2015 VEGETABLE UNLEASHED (Animation) Beefsteak – Food Inc
2015 I AM (Short Documentary), on Alexandra Mor, Jewelry Design. Featured in Vogue JewelryTelly Awards 2016
2014 SHINNY API (Animation) New York eHealth Collaborative, Campaign For The State Of New York
2013 AN ECOSYSTEM TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY (Animation) New York eHealth Collaborative,
Campaign For The State Of New York. Telly Awards 2014
2013 PATIENT PORTAL FOR NEW YORKER (Animation) New York eHealth Collaborative, Campaign For The State Of New York
Communicator Award 2013
2012 HOW SHINNY MAKES LIFE BETTER (Animation) New York eHealth Collaborative, Campaign For The State Of New York.
AVA Digital Awards 2013 and Telly Awards 2013
2013 WHITE ALLIGATOR (Feature Film) Opening And Closing Credits Animation
Golden Door International Film Festival, International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival,
Bled Film Festival, The Art of Bklyn Film Festival
2011 ALL I WANNA DO (Music Video) Song by Erica Glyn From Album “Static”
2010 SHIFTING GAZE (Short Film) by Laia Cabrera, Spain Art Fest 2010, Times Square Plaza Region Zero Festival, King Juan Carlos I of
Spain Center at NYU, Centro Metropolitano de Diseño. Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Centro de Iniciativas
Culturales, Sevilla and Contemporary Art Gallery Canary Islands Government, El Tragaluz Digital. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain,
Festival Close Up, Cuale Cultural Center, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, USA
2009 IS THERE AN EDGE OF BELIEF (Short Film) by Laia Cabrera, Jaen Femenino Festival, Spain
VISUALS & PROJECTION DESIGN – VIDEO MAPPING FOR THEATER/DANCE
2023 LIFT ME UP Music Video by Lachi - Video Immersive Installation set for filming, Gymnopedie, Brooklyn, NY
2023 ALLERLEIRAUH (Musical Theater) adapted from the Brothers Grimm, Alvin Ailey Theater, New York, NY
2022 THE DARK STONE (theater) by Alejandro Conejero, Repertorio Español, New York, NY
2022 COSMICOMICS Multimedia Theater Play inspired by Italo Calvino, The New Stage Theater Company, NYC
2021 PEOPLE PLACE DISRUPTION (dance) with Nimbus Dance Works, NJPAC, Newark, NJ
2021 BLACK HENRY (online theater) Atlantic Pacific Theatre, New York, NY
2019-22 FALLING SKY (dance) with Nimbus Dance Works, NJPAC, Newark, NJ, Nimbus Arts Center, Jersey City, NJ
2019 LINES IN THE DUST (theater) by Nikkole Salter, Jersey City Theater Center, Jersey City, NJ
2019 PRAYOG (dance) Three Aksha dance company, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2018 NUTCRACKER (danse) Nimbus Dance Works, Jersey City, NJ
2018 TROJAN WOMEN (theater) written by Euripides, at the Jersey City Theater Center, NJ
2018 PROLOGUE Multimedia Theater Play written and directed by Maria Litvan, at the Jersey City Theater Center, NJ
2017 ELSE & HENRY Video art and video projection mapping, Espacio Inestable, Valencia, Spain - September 2017,
received the "Nuestras Voces" award by the MetLife Foundation and Teatro El Extranjero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2022
2016 SINCRONIZADA by Mar Gomez Glez, Teatro Del Canal, Madrid, Spain - Finalist of Talent Madrid 2016 Festival
2016 NATYASHASTRA (dance) by Viji Rao at the JCC Auditorium at the KleinLife Center, Philadelphia, PA with the support of the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Knight Foundation
2015 EMILIE multimedia play by Radegund Hain, produced by Stephanie Schmiderer and Markus Hirnigel and presented at the Theater
For the New City, NYC with support of the Austrian Cultural Forum
2015 RONENSBOURGH (theater) by Beatriz Cabur, with AENY presented at IATI theater, NYC.
2015 NIGHT (theater) by Charles Mee, with The New Stage Theater Company presented at the Theater For the New City,
NYC. New York Innovative Theater Award nominee for Outstanding Innovative design (Projection Design, Visuals and
Animations), New York Innovative Theater Award winner for Outstanding Performance Art Production
2014 COSMICOMICS Multimedia Theater Play inspired by Italo Calvino, with The New Stage Theater Company presented at
Dixon Place, NYC. New York Innovative Theater Award nominee for Outstanding Innovative design (Projection Design,
Visuals and Animations)
2013 PROLOGUE Multimedia Theater Play directed by Maria Litvan presented at the Center of Performance Research
2012 GARDEN OF DELIGHTS Multimedia Theater Play written by Fernando Arrabal, by The New Stage Theater Company
presented at The Theater for the New City, NYC. New York Innovative Theater Award nominee for Outstanding
Innovative design (Projection Design, Visuals and Animations)
2012 LANDSCAPE OF THE SOUL multimedia visual concert with 17 video mapped screens with world-percussionist multi-instrumentalist
Nacho Arimany. La Mama, NYC
2011 THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS Multimedia Theater Play. Presented March 16-18 at the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
2010 MAPPING MÖBIUS Multimedia theater play by New Stage Theater Company, presented at La Mama Theater, NYC
2009 WALK-PASA-BOUGE Silk-Video-Sound-Animation Performance with Laia Cabrera And Cia Lorrojo At Monkey Town, Brooklyn -
Pianos, LES - Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, And Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC.
2009 UNTIL THERE (Sound-Video Tour-Performance) With Laia Cabrera And For Feather At The Subway (Cincinnati) And THE Waterloo
(Cleveland), Ohio And At Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NYC
2009 PLAYING EQUALITY Multimedia Dance-theater Produced and performed by Puy Navarro & Francisco Reyes. Commissioned by the
Generalitat Valenciana, for the International Universities Forum 2009 and the Valencian Foundation for Human Rights. International
University Forum on "Poverty Eradication: A Challenge for Universities Worldwide", Boricua College of the City University of New
York, 2009. Festival Internacional de Teatro Social 'ReACT'" sponsored by the Fundación por la Justicia, Valencia, Spain, 2010
2008 LA JAULA BAJO EL TRAPO Multimedia theater play Video Art by Laia Cabrera, performed at the Festival Teatro Vivo, King Juan
Carlos Center, NYU
2008 FOR FEATHER (Visual Concert) At BAM CAFE, Brooklyn - New York
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024 Program Grant Awards by Jersey City Arts & Culture Trust Fund
2024 CUNY-BCC grant from the Melon Foundation for the creation of immersive installation "Perennial Land"
2023 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant awards by Jersey City Arts & Culture Trust Fund
2022 #Hybrid Vision - Panasonic Digital Art Nominee, Shanghai, China in the category "Interactive/Experiential - Installation"
2021 Motion Award 2021 Nominee in the category "Interactive/Experiential - Installation"
2020 Grant from FLUTTER EXPERIENCE to create the immersive interactive video and sound installation "Dream-e-scape", Los Angeles
2019 Grant from FLUTTER EXPERIENCE to create the immersive interactive video and sound installation "Illusion", Los Angeles
2018 -20 Resident Artists of COOLTURE IMPACT, the largest video interactive public art platform, New York
2018 Spring Break Art Show 2018 Official Selection
2017 Farragut Fund for Catalan Culture in the U.S. Grant
2016 Talent Madrid 2016 Finalist
2016 Telly Awards 2016 Silver Winner for Best Direction (Highest Distinction)
2015 New York Innovative Theater Award Winner for "Night" Outstanding Performance Art Production
2015 New York Innovative Theater Award Nominee for "Night" Outstanding Innovative Design
2014 New York Innovative Theater Award Nominee for "Cosmicomics" Outstanding Innovative Design
2014 Telly Awards 2014 Bronze Winner for Best Art Direction
2013 New York Innovative Theater Award Nominee for "Garden of Delights" Outstanding Innovative Design
2013 Telly Awards 2013 Silver Winner for Best Documentary
2013 Telly Awards 2013 Silver Winner for Best Animation
2013 AVA Digital Awards 2013 Platinum Winner Best video Animation and Best Creativity
2013 AVA Digital Awards 2013 Gold Winner Best Documentary
2010 Residency in Topia Arts New York, USA, May - June 2010
PUBLICATIONS
2024 "Perennial Land" Artist Feature and Interview, Care & Climate Justice Catalogue, CUNY-Mellon Foundation
2023 "Love and..." Series in ARTUPMI Magazine - Spring 2023 Issue 12
2023 Film Criticism Conference - Beyond the Frame Catalogue
2022 "Dematerialized Embrace" in Zanna Magazine - Issue 11
2022 Artist Feature Isabelle Duverger and Laia Cabrera in Syzygy Project
2022 "LOVE #" series in ARTUPMI Magazine - Winter 2022 Issue 5
2022 "HANDWRITING" and "THE OTHER" Collages in TINY SPOON Magazine - Issue 8
2021 "DOUCEUR SUCREE" in Zanna Magazine - Issue 10
2019 Interview for MCD - Magazine des Cultures Digitales
2016 "LOVE PEACE & LIGHT" children book - illustrations (published in English and Spanish)
ARTIST TALKS
2024 Women Heavy Exhibition Artist Talk moderated by Anna Ehrsam, Gardenship, Kearny, NJ
2024 Touch: Artist Talk - Art150 Gallery, Jersey City
2024 Perennial Land: Artist Talk - Hall of Fame Gallery, CUNY-CBB, NY
2024 Care and Climate Justice Artists’ Roundtable - Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Sarah Lawrence College, NY
2023 From Moving Images to Immersive Cinema - Film Criticism Conference, Riyadh, KSA
2022 Festival SANT JORDI USA, Jersey City, NJ
2020 Festival ECOSS, Fabra i Coats: Centre d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2020 JCTC Conversations ONLINE: Voices from Around the World, Jersey City, NJ
2020 TrapTalk, Trapology, Boston, MA
2020 Nimbus: Stagedoor, Jersey City, NJ
2018 Business, Design & Technology Conference on Sustainable Cities, Centre for Social Innovation, New York, NY
EDUCATION
2004-2006 Master in Business Administration, Audencia Nantes Management School (France) specialization in Management of Cultural
Institutions & Aarhus School of Business (Denmark) specialization in Marketing and Communication
2003-2004 Bachelor of sciences in Marketing and Sales, IUT Cergy St Christophe, France
2001-2003 2-year Associate Degree in Graphic Design, Estienne School of Art, Paris, France
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