Clotilde Jiménez

Clotilde Jiménez (born 1990) is a multi-disciplinary American artist who works with ceramics, collage, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. His work's common themes, include blackness, gender, masculinity, and sexuality. Jiménez lives and works in Mexico City.

Life and career
Jiménez was born in 1990 in Honolulu to Puerto Rican and African-American parents. His father was a body builder and would go on to influence aspects of his work.

He was raised in a poor neighborhood in Philadelphia. He attended Charter High School for Architecture + Design, a now defunct school that gave opportunities to at-risk kids with creative ambitions.

In 2013, he earned a BFA in printmaking from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and 2018 a MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. In 2023, Jiménez was commissioned by the International Olympic Committee to produce two artworks for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games artistic poster program. One representing the Olympic Games and another representing the Paralympic Games for Paris 2024.



Jiménez works closely with the esteemed art dealer Mariane Ibrahim and is represented by her gallery.

Individual exhibitions

 * The Grotto. An Opera in Two Acts, Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024
 * The Long Run, Mariane Ibrahim, Paris, France, 2024
 * La Memoria del Agua, Mariane Ibrahim, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023
 * The Contest, Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, IL, USA, 2020
 * Un Nouveau Monde, Paris, 2022
 * Apple of My Eye, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA, 2018

Collections

 * CSS Bard College Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
 * Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, USA
 * The Ford Foundation, New York City, NY, USA
 * University Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA
 * Dean Collection, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Publications

 * Phaidon (2023). Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art
 * Bennett, Joshua; Dunson, Danny; Quinn, Nathaniel Mary; Zimmerman, Emily (2020). Clotilde Jiménez