Born November 25th, 1974 in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Currently living in Virginia, USA
E-mail: iclouthier@cox.net

My work is about recreating stories in artificial places. I use plastic objects in my images to create unexpected relationships between the object and its surroundings. I distort objects to create spaces, textures. I use plastic as the material that promise the ephemeral paradise, the disposable happiness, plastic as the passage to the empty and uncertain future, to disposable perfection and artificial life. I use plastic to simulate stories as a reflections of my childhood, to enact fantasies, as a statement abut the bubble wrap society I live in, the disposable culture, the lost of sensibility and the embrace of plastics as the cool material of our emptiness.

Irene Clouthier

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Color-Candy, Galeria Sicart. Villafranca del Penedès, Barcelona, Spain.
2004 Playground, Marina Kessler Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Scope NY, Marina Kessler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Ilusiones Plasticas, Drexel Galeria, Monterrey, Mexico.
2002 Juego Plastico, Museum of Art of Sinaloa, Culiacan, Mexico
2000 Light Reactions, 527 Gallery, PhotoFest 2000, Houston, TX, USA.
1998 Hielo Trasluz, Galeria de Arte Joven DIFOCUR. Culiacan, Mexico.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Zumbido, CAD (Centro de Arquitectura y Diseño). México DF.
Subasta MASIN, Museo de Arte de Sinaloa, Sinaloa Mexico

2007 TransitioMX, Video Art Festival, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda. Mexico DF.
Photography Show, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. Washington DC.
Art For Life, Whitman-Walker Auction, Organization of American States. Washington, DC
Directios, DC Contemporary Latino Art, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington DC.
Art DC, Mexican Cultural Institute. Washington DC
El Universo, Subasta del Hogar de la Misericordia, Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
El Complejo de las Semejanzas. American Institute of Monterrey. Monterrey, Mexico.
Art on Papers, Art Auction. Atlanta, GA.

2006 Visiones, Capital One Art Program. Richmond, VA.
ELA Asia, Art Taipei 2006, Douz & Mille, Taipei, China.
DIVA Fair New York, Galeria Sicart. Embassy Suites NY, New York.
Art Miami, Marina Kessler Gallery, Miami Convention Center. Miami, FL.

2005 Scope Miami, Parisud Contemporary, TownHouse Hotel Miami, FL, USA.
Pulse Miami, Marina Kessler Gallery. Miami, FL, USA
Un(konventional) Kitsch, Maryland Art Place. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Nuestra Fotografía, Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey. Monterrey, México.
ART Salamanca, Galería Sicart. Salamanca, España.
Mirrors/Espejos, Cultural Institute of Mexico, Mexican Artists in the US. Washington, DC.
Bienal del Noroeste, Museo de Arte de Sinaloa. Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Downtown Dinner, Art Auction, New York, NY.
Affordable Art Fair New York, Marina Kessler Gallery. New York, NY, USA
VII Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital, Centro Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba.
Inter American Kids Fund, Latin American Art Auction 2005. Miami, FL.
Regard Sûr la Photographie Contemporaine. Parisud Contemporary, Paris France.
Art Paris, Parisud Contemportary. Le Carousselle dy Louvre. Paris, France.
Art with Accent: Latin Americans in the Mid-Atlantic States Arlington Arts Center. Arlington, VA.
Diva Fair, Parisud Contemporary. Embassy Suites NY, New York.
Art Miami, Marina Kessler Gallery. Miami FL.

2004 Olympic Truce: Pieces of Peace, World Bank Gallery. Washington, D.C.
Patrimonio UDEM, Rectoria Universidad de Monterrey. Monterrey, Mexico.
Affordable Art Fair, Marina Kessler Gallery. New York, NY, USA.
Push Play: Redefining Pop, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art. Jacksonville, FL, USA
Le Mystere du Kilo d’Or, Centre Culturel de Mexique, Paris, France
FotoFest, Art League of Houston. Houston, TX, USA
Annual Juried Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery. Washington, DC, USA
Art Miami, Marina Kessler Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

2003 Toronto International Art Fair, Marina Kessler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Paris Foto, Project Room, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Affordable Art Fair, Marina Kessler Gallery. New York, NY, USA
Our Voices, Our Images, InterAmerican Development Bank, Prize Winner, Washington DC.
Ready, Set, Go. Toys & Games In Art, Anchorage Musuem of Art and History, Anchorage, AL. USA.
V Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital, Centro Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba.
Monterrey Arte al Dia, Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey. Monterrey, Mexico.
Muestra2, Galeria Drexel, World Trade Center, Mexico City. Mexico.
First Latin American and Caribbean Video Art Competition and Exhibit. • Institute Italo LatinoAmericano. Roma, Italia. • Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art. Buenos Aires, Argentina. • Panama Museum of Contemporary Art. Panama, Panama. • Fundação Cultural de Ciritiba. Curitiba, Brazil. • Galeria Bellas Artes. Santiago, Chile. • Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Quito, Ecuador. • Museo de Antioquia. Medellin, Colombia.
To Be Determined, Corner Views Gallery, Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran, Washington, DC.
Art Miami 2003, Mackey Gallery, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, Florida, USA.

2002 First Latin American and Caribbean Video Art Competition and Exhibit. Cultural Center of the InterAmerican Development Bank. Washington, DC. USA.
Small Pieces Group Show, Mackey Gallery. Houston, Texas, USA.
V Bienal Regional de la Plastica Joven, Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
Comportamientos-Percepciones-Mediaciones, Univarsidad Autonoma de Guanajuato. Mexico.
Tendencias, VII Salon de Arte Bancomer. Museum of Contemporary Art Queretaro. Mexico.
Senior Show, Center for the Arts, George Mason University. Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
Spagetti Regio, Exotico Noreste, Assioma Cultural Center. Pratto, Italy.
Chambers of Wonder 2002, Johnson Center Fine Art Gallery. George Mason University. Fairfax, VA.
Electric Eyes II, Krasnow Institute Galleries. George Mason University. Fairfax, VA, USA.
Vision de la Plastica Neolonesa 2002, Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo Leon.Monterrey, Mexico.

2001 Tendencias, VII Salon de Arte Bancomer, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico.
Group Show, Mackey Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
Exotico Noreste, Video projections and animations. Liverpool, department store. Monterrey, Mexico.
Exposicion de obras ganadoras del Premio Bernardo Elosua Farias 1996-2000, Arte A.C. Centro Cultural, Monterrey, Mexico.

2000 Alta Resolucion, Sinaloa Art Museum (MASIN), Culiacan, Mexico.
Group Exhibition, Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City Mexico.
Alta Resolucion, El Chopo University Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
XIX Salon de la Plastica Sinaloense, Frida Kahlo Art Gallery, Culiacan, Mexico.
Ambigu, ego-lounge. Monterrey, N.L. Mexico.
7ma. Subasta de Artistas a Beneficio de Niños con Cancer, Casino de la Cultura, Culiacan, Mexico.

1999 Bubble, Emma Molina Gallery, Group exhibition, Garza García, N.L. Mexico.
Alta Resolucion, Drexel Salon Colectivo, Garza Garcia, Mexico.
Arte Alternativo, Casa Blanca de Montemorelos, Montemorelos, N.L. Mexico.

1998 Salon de Nuevos Valores, Arte A.C., Centro Cultural. Monterrey, Mexico.
Yo soy Aqui, Ahora, Siempre, Jamas, Casa de la Cultura del Estado de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey
Salon de la Grafica y Originales Sobre Papel, 3rd Prize winner, Arte A.C. Centro Cultural, Monterrey.
Doce Mujeres. Centro Cultural Casa Lamm, México City, Mexico.
5ta. Subasta de Artistas a Beneficio de Niños con Cancer, Casino de la Cultura, Culiacan, Mexico.
Doce Mujeres, Museum of the city of Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico.

1997 Primer Encuentro Estudiantil de Artes Visuales 2nd Prize winner, French Alliance, Monterrey, Mexico.
Primer Premio Barrio Antiguo, Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.

EDUCATION
2000-2002 George Mason University. Master of Arts, Visual Information Technologies. Fairfax, Virginia. USA. Academic and Artistic Achievement Award.
1999 Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc). LA/LA Program. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
1998 Reconocimiento de la Federación de Colegios Profesionales del Estado de Nuevo León A.C. Monterrey, NL. México. Academic Exellence Award.
1994-1997 Universidad de Monterrey. Licenciatura en Artes. Cum Laude. Monterrey, NL. Mex.
1996 Universidad Complutence de Madrid. Periodismo y Comunicación. Madrid, España.
1993 Ecole d´art Plastiques. Dibujo y pintura. París, France

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Poder Año 2, Februrary 15, 2006, Edicion No. 4, Irene Clouthier y sus Juegos Plasticos, Mexico
Miami Herald, January 2006, Irene Clouthier y sus universos de plasticos.
Art on Paper Papers, November-December 2004, – Push Play: Redifining Pop
Miami Herald, Elisa Turner, Two Styles of Collage: One Sassy, One Sober. April 2004.
Art Nexus Magazine # 52 – March-May 2004 – Paris Photo
O.bjeto 06 - March 2004 – Ilusiones Plasticas
Art Nexus Magazine # 49 – June-August 2003 – Muestra Mexico
Por Fin/Cultura - Noviembre 2001- El Universal. Arte Contemporáneo en el Museo de Arte Moderno
ArtVance #1 - June-July 2000- Bubble Exhibition at Emma Molina Gallery

COLLECTIONS
Art Bank of the DC Commission of the Arts & Humanities , Washington, DC
Coppel Collection
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, La Habana, Cuba.
Museo de Arte de Sinaloa (MASIN). Culiacán, Sinaloa, México.
Centro Cultural Arte A.C. Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.