French-American light sculpture artist Raphaele Shirley was born in 1969 in Wisconsin, USA. She studied at the Aix-en-Provence Beaux Arts in France. In the 1990s, she moved to New York to become a full time artist.
Between 1997 and 2002, she worked under Nam June Paik, the US based Korean artist and founder of video art, assisting him in the development of a number of public works which were displayed in Seoul and Jacob’s Ladder at the Guggenheim.
In 1998, Shirley helped create The New York International Fringe Festival. In the last few years, the artist has been concentrating her artistic efforts away from video and multi-media art to pure light sculpture.
In 2009, she created the Jewels of Kvinesdal, a public art commission which was curated by Torill Haugen. The piece is a "multi-media sculpture set on the Utsikten Kunstsenter's outdoor arena, overlooking the Kvinesdal fjord."
Jewels of Kvinesdal was preceded in 2008 by the Sunken City (Basel) and the Sunken City Episode II – New York and in 2007 by Sunken City Preludes which was presented by PowerHouse projects in Brooklyn, New York.
Shirley has exhibited her art works at the Moscow Biennale, Basel, Istanbul and at the Venice Biennale in 2005.
Raphaele Shirley lives in Brooklyn, New York.
See also
Solo Exhibitions
2010 - 0910 Light Shots - Chelsea Art Museum. Project Room for New Media - NY, NY Arctic Lights - Dorfman Projects - NY,NY
2009 - Jewels of Kvinesdal - Utsikten Art Center - Kvinesdal, Norway (public art commission) Docks Art Fair - Marc de Puechredon Gallery - Lyon, France
2008 - Sunken City - Marc de Puechredon Gallery - Basel, Switzerland Sunken City Episode II - Emily Harvey Foundation - New York, NY
2007 - Sunken City Preludes - presented by PowerHouse projects - Brooklyn, NY
External links
- Official Website of Raphaele Shirley
- Trong Gia Nguyen interviews Raphaele Shirley ArtSlant Artic Circle Project
- PowerHouse Projects Interview with Raphaele Shirley by Astrid Persans