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Isabel Yi Jimenez (b. 1999, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist, writer, and curator whose work examines the materiality and genealogy of place and the manifestations of diasporic life as it congeals and adapts to structures of colonial violence. Through a research-based practice, their investigations broach contamination, confluence, porosity, extractivism, and migratory identity frameworks. They utilize photography, sculptural installation, archival documents, organic materials, and public intervention and performance as lenses of inquiry.
They are the artist projects manager on the curatorial team at Clockshop, where they produce public programming and commission contemporary public artworks. Additionally, they are the poetry editor at Broken Lens Journal and serve as a copyeditor on the editorial team at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Sunflower Station Press; Sunstroke Press; and MOZAIK, for which they received the Future Art Writers Award; among others.
Navigation: Excerpt from Daniel Hsieh, “The Origin and Nature of the “‘Nineteen Old Poems, ’” Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 77 (1998).
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Past Events
Hey Books! Presents:
Ana Carrete, Adam Stutz, jimmy vega, Isabel Yi Jimenez
Hey Books!: 921 E St, San Diego, CA
April 12, 2026 at 6pm
One Year of Sunstroke Press
Reverie Bookstand: 1519 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
April 11, 2026 at 7:30pm
The Poetic Research Bureau Presents:
Inna Krasnoper, Isabel Yi Jimenez, Keith Carr Walsh, hosted by Ivanna Baranova
David Horvitz’s 7th Ave. Garden: 1911 7th Ave, Los Angeles, CA
March 28, 2026 at 6pm
HOLIDAY #2: Valentine's
The Earl: 4408 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA
February 13, 2026 at 7pm
Vermicult Presents:
Paasha Motamedi, Mariah Flores, Shy Watson, Isabel Yi Jimenez, Bernie Bridges
The Vermicult House: Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles, CA
November 8, 2025 at 2pm
Sunflower Station Press: Sunflower Nights
Derrick Brown, Adam Stutz, Theo Meranze, Farah Abouzeid, Veronika Kelemen, Aiden Brown,
Hosted by Isabel Yi Jimenez
Tabula Rasa: 5125 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
September 9, 2026 at 7:30pm
Stories Presents: An Evening of Poetry
Lili Lee, Celeste Sofia, Isabel Yi Jimenez, Ivan Salinas, Ingrid M. Calderon, Priyanka Voruganti,
Lupita Limón Corrales, hosted by Tori Gesualdo
Stories Books and Cafe: 1716 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
July 20, 2025 at 7pm