Isabel Manalo

Artist Isabel Manalo creates mix media work that straddles issues of place, identity, geography, nature and post-colonial identity in the form of photography, collage, and paint. She has been awarded three consecutive fellowships (2008, 2009 and 2011) at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In 2003, she was awarded the Juror’s Choice Award at the McLean Project for the Arts painting biennial, and was a semi-finalist for the Trawick Prize in both 2004 and 2008. She's been featured in two volumes of New American Painting (2004 and 2006).

Manalo’s work has been exhibited in such museums as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Katzen Art Museum, The Arlington Arts Center and The Creative Arts Alliance in Baltimore. Her work is in numerous collections both private and public including The National Academy of Sciences and several US Embassies. She received an MFA in Painting from Yale University, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Education

• MFA, Yale University, 1999
• BFA, Art Institute of Chicago, 1993
• BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1990

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Bibliography

• One Hundred Washington D.C. Artists, Edited by Lenny Campello, Schiffer Publishing company. Featuring 100 key Washington D.C. artists.
• The Washington Post, "Collector Mera Rubell Makes the Rounds of Washington’s Isolated Artists", By Jessica Dawson, 2009.
• The Baltimore City Paper, "Road to Nowhere: Ceci N’est Pas une Carte", By Deborah McLeod. 2008.
• The Washington Post, "You Catch More Flies With Honey Worth a Visit", by Jessica Dawson, December, 2007.
• DCist, "You Catch More Flies With Honey", By Kelly Rand, 2007
• New American Paintings Mid-Atlantic Competition, Vol. 53, May 2006
• Los Angeles Times, "New Vistas in Landscape Painting", By David Pagel, February 2005.
• The Washington Post, "Art That Works", By Michael O’Sullivan, January 2005.
• Washington City Paper, "New Acquisitions of Works by DC Based Artists", by Louis Jacobson, September 2004.
• New American Paintings Mid-Atlantic Competition, Vol. 51, May, 2004
• The Washington Post, "New and Notables: National Academy of Art Acquisitions", June 2004
• DC One, "The Glory of Painting" By F. Lennox Campbello, June 2003
• The Washington Post, "Art in an Experimental Groove: Decatur Blue Gives the Flip Side of Mainstream, Some Extended Play" By Jessica Dawson. January, 2003
• The Washington Post, "Isabel Manalo’s Fine Lines of Distinction" By Jessica Dawson, September, 2002.