Irene Mamiye is a New York-based artist whose work incorporates photography, video, and digital imaging techniques. Using light, color and movement, Mamiye’s bold images blur the distinction between physical and virtual reality. Influenced by her own personal history and artists as diverse as Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Gerhard Richter, Mamiye employs intricate and labor-intensive processes to challenge what is expected of the photographic medium. Appropriating Instagram posts as her palette, Mamiye transforms the plenitude of public images into richly layered works that hint at a life lived between screens. With a playful yet mordant humor, Mamiye creates pieces packed with art historical depth and pop cultural abundance. Her willingness to disrupt traditional 2-dimensional boundaries is both surprising and rewarding, like in her most recent series of videos, which imagine the destruction of iconic artworks. Mamiye’s video work builds on more than a decade of the artist’s investigations into the relationship between conventional photography and digital technology. I look forward to following the evolution of Irene Mamiye’s work via social media, the site of her own inspirational playground.
Mamiye’s extensive body of work, including digital images, videos, and furniture designs, has been widely exhibited across the United States. Her work was included in the landmark exhibition The Edge of Vision (2009), mounted by the Aperture Foundation, and in the Museum of Art and Design’s Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography (2014). Mamiye’s work has also been featured in the following publications: Architectural Digest, Interior Design Magazine, Vanity Fair, People Magazine, Elle Décor and InStyle.
Irene Mamiye was born in Marseille, France and immigrated to the U.S as an adolescent. She holds a BA in Photography and Global Studies from Gallatin New York University and an MFA in Lens Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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