Work
  1. Sacrifice Zones
  2. Soledad Mountain Project
  3. Los Angeles Dams
  4. Epitaph (After Jaar)
  5. Disseminules

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Events

isabelyijimenez@gmail.com
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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. 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).

Contact: isabelyijimenez@gmail.com


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Forthcoming    LaRissa Rogers, subterranean convergence | Clockshop  

2025                    TJ Shin, Songs of Emerging Endangerment | Clockshop  

2025                    Maria Maea, Lau Lupe and Meanoa | Clockshop  

2024                    Yaeun Stevie Choi, Fight for Flight | Clockshop  

2024–Present    Rosten Woo, What Water Wants | Clockshop

2024                    Christopher Suarez with Carlos Agredano, Diana Yesenia Alvarado, and timo fahler, Por
                              El Río | Clockshop 

2023                    Rodrigo Valenzuela, the underpinning | Clockshop

2022                    Sarah Rosalena, For Submersion | Clockshop

PUBLIC PROGRAMS (SELECTED)

Forthcoming    Place Settings: Jacumba Hot Springs (experimental lecture series)   

Forthcoming    Reading and Listening by Moonrise: Relational (Shirley Tse and Dana Berman Duff),
                            Hans Kuzmich, Youna Kwak, Jenny Lin, Euan Macdonald | Clockshop

2026                    pehrspace and the Poetic Research Bureau Present: Dao Strom with She Who Has
                             No Master(s), Patrick Shiroishi, and Isabel Yi Jimenez    

2026                    Broken Lens Journal: Issue 11 Launch, featuring Giovanni Boskovich, Venya Gushchin,
                             Rhys Langston, Alex Moreno, and Nikki Ochoa

2026                    Listening by Moonrise: Kiyo Gutiérrez with Eva Aguila | Clockshop  

2026                    Listening by Moonrise: Ivana Dama and Ears to the Ground | Clockshop  

2026                    The Poetic Research Bureau Presents: Inna Krasnoper, Isabel Yi Jimenez,
                             Keith Carr Walsh  

2025                    Sunflower Station Press Presents: Derrick Brown, Adam Stutz, Theo Meranze,
                             Farah Abouzeid, Veronika Kelemen, Aiden Brown, organized by Isabel Yi Jimenez

EDITORIAL

2026–Present    Managing Editor | Broken Lens Journal

2021–2026          Copydesk Coordinator | Copyeditor | Los Angeles Review of Books  

EDUCATION

2022                    Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography And Media | California Institute Of The Arts  

2020                    Associate of Arts, Art History | Los Angeles Valley College | Summa Cum Laude
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