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'''Irene Clouthier Carillo''' (born 1974) is a multi-disciplinary artist born in [[Culiacán]], Sinaloa, Mexico who has lived and worked in the Washington DC metro area since 2000. Clouthier's work explores childhood nostalgia and the idealization of early memories and experiences as demonstrated by her use of images, objects and materials<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clouthier |first=Irene |date=19 April 2009 |title=Plastics and the Fiction in Art |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/657872811/?match=1&terms=Irene%20Clouthier |access-date=18 June 2025 |work=The Miami Herald |pages=19 April 2009}}</ref> from childhood games and toys.<ref>"[https://www.artealdia.com/News/Eight-Latin-American-artists-explored-the-spectator-s-experience-at-Museo-Universitario-del-Chopo-Mexico-City Eight Latin American artists explored the Spectator´s Experience at Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City]", ''Art Aldia'', May 2002</ref> Some of her early works in the U.S. addressed the visual disparity of the landscapes in the U.S. versus her native country.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Herrera |first=Adriana |date=5 February 2006 |title=Irene Clouthier and Her Plastic Universes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/653196560/?match=1&terms=Irene%20Clouthier |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=18 June 2025 |work=Miami Herald |pages=41}}</ref> Several of her recent works have also explored social<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jenkins |first=Mark |date=30 July 2016 |title=In the Galleries: Normal Rockwell Would Have Recognized These Socialist Images |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/in-the-galleries-norman-rockwell-would-have-recognized-these-socialist-images/2016/07/29/785274aa-528b-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |pages=ISSN 0190-8286}}</ref> and humanitarian concerns.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Jenkins |first=Mark |date=2025 |title=A Whimsical Art Tour of Foggy Bottom |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/04/homeland-hostland-foggy-bottom-sculpture-biennial/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |publication-date=7 June 2025}}</ref> |
'''Irene Clouthier Carillo''' (born 1974) is a multi-disciplinary artist born in [[Culiacán]], Sinaloa, Mexico who has lived and worked in the Washington DC metro area since 2000. Clouthier's work explores childhood nostalgia and the idealization of early memories and experiences as demonstrated by her use of images, objects and materials<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clouthier |first=Irene |date=19 April 2009 |title=Plastics and the Fiction in Art |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/657872811/?match=1&terms=Irene%20Clouthier |access-date=18 June 2025 |work=The Miami Herald |pages=19 April 2009}}</ref> from childhood games and toys.<ref>"[https://www.artealdia.com/News/Eight-Latin-American-artists-explored-the-spectator-s-experience-at-Museo-Universitario-del-Chopo-Mexico-City Eight Latin American artists explored the Spectator´s Experience at Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City]", ''Art Aldia'', May 2002</ref> Some of her early works in the U.S. addressed the visual disparity of the landscapes in the U.S. versus her native country.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Herrera |first=Adriana |date=5 February 2006 |title=Irene Clouthier and Her Plastic Universes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/653196560/?match=1&terms=Irene%20Clouthier |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=18 June 2025 |work=Miami Herald |pages=41}}</ref> Several of her recent works have also explored social<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jenkins |first=Mark |date=30 July 2016 |title=In the Galleries: Normal Rockwell Would Have Recognized These Socialist Images |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/in-the-galleries-norman-rockwell-would-have-recognized-these-socialist-images/2016/07/29/785274aa-528b-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |pages=ISSN 0190-8286}}</ref> and humanitarian concerns.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Jenkins |first=Mark |date=2025 |title=A Whimsical Art Tour of Foggy Bottom |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/04/homeland-hostland-foggy-bottom-sculpture-biennial/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |publication-date=7 June 2025}}</ref> |
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As a contributor to the Icebox Collective, Clouthier has been instrumental in the three iterations of the nomadic house project<ref name=":0" /> which addresses issues of home, conflict, and displacement.<ref>{{Cite news |last=East City Art Editorial Team |date=2 October 2022 |title=The Icebox Collective presents the Nomadic House Project - Cloud(s) at the Mexican Cultural Institute |url=https://www.eastcityart.com/openings-and-events/the-icebox-collective-presents-the-nomadic-house-project-clouds-at-the-mexican-cultural-institute/ |work=East City Art}}</ref> |
As a contributor to the Icebox Collective, Clouthier has been instrumental in the three iterations of the nomadic house project<ref name=":0" /> which addresses issues of home, conflict, and displacement.<ref>{{Cite news |last=East City Art Editorial Team |date=2 October 2022 |title=The Icebox Collective presents the Nomadic House Project - Cloud(s) at the Mexican Cultural Institute |url=https://www.eastcityart.com/openings-and-events/the-icebox-collective-presents-the-nomadic-house-project-clouds-at-the-mexican-cultural-institute/ |work=East City Art}}</ref> |
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Clouthier has a long running pursuit of social injustices personally as well as professionally. Though she achieved artistic success, she also experienced some of the challenges facing immigrants in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=John |date=7 July 2013 |title="The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington" at the Katzen Arts Center, Reviewed |url=https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/328763/the-looking-glass-artist-immigrants-of-washington-at-the-katzen-arts-center-reviewed/ |access-date=22 June 2025 |website=Washington City Paper}}</ref> These experiences led her to volunteer work supporting the Latino community in the Washington DC metro area. She continued the non-violent protests she observed as a child and supported non-profit initiatives. She was one of the founding members of Latinas 4 Latinas and currently serves as the Vice Chair for non-profit Nueva Vida<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jimenez |first=Astrid |date=17 June 2025 |title=About Nueva Vida |url=https://nueva-vida.org/about/#board-of-directors |website=Neuva Vida}}</ref> |
Clouthier has a long running pursuit of social injustices personally as well as professionally. Though she achieved artistic success, she also experienced some of the challenges facing immigrants in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=John |date=7 July 2013 |title="The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington" at the Katzen Arts Center, Reviewed |url=https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/328763/the-looking-glass-artist-immigrants-of-washington-at-the-katzen-arts-center-reviewed/ |access-date=22 June 2025 |website=Washington City Paper}}</ref> These experiences led her to volunteer work supporting the Latino community in the Washington DC metro area. She continued the non-violent protests she observed as a child and supported non-profit initiatives. She was one of the founding members of Latinas 4 Latinas and currently serves as the Vice Chair for non-profit Nueva Vida.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jimenez |first=Astrid |date=17 June 2025 |title=About Nueva Vida |url=https://nueva-vida.org/about/#board-of-directors |website=Neuva Vida}}</ref><!-- {{subst:submit}} --> |
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Irene Clouthier Carillo (born 1974) is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico who has lived and worked in the Washington DC metro area since 2000. Clouthier's work explores childhood nostalgia and the idealization of early memories and experiences as demonstrated by her use of images, objects and materials[1] from childhood games and toys.[2] Some of her early works in the U.S. addressed the visual disparity of the landscapes in the U.S. versus her native country.[3] Several of her recent works have also explored social[4] and humanitarian concerns.[5]
Though typically an independent artist, Clouthier has also contributed to various art collectives. She is currently working with the Icebox Collective[5] with the Nomadic House Project and previously participated with Exotico Noreste Collective[6][7] and the Floating Art Collective.
Irene is both a visual artist and a curator. She has curated shows at museums,[8] art centers, art fairs, non-profit spaces, and commercial galleries in the US and in Mexico.[9]
Education and career
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Raised in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico; Irene left home in her teens to study at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. She volunteered in 1995 at the newly opened Sinaloa Museum of Art which led her to a position at Drexel Galeria in Monterrey, where she began meeting established Mexican artists like Perla Krauze, Gerardo Azcúnaga and Armando Romero while learning more about the business side of art.[10]
Following her time in Monetery, Clouthier completed preparatory classes in France and her undergraduate work in Mexico at the University of Monterrey where she studied under artist Jorge Elizondo and Aldo Chaparro. Around this time, Clouthier was allowed to work at Aldo Chaparro studio in Monterrey. Three and a half years after completing her undergraduate degree and working in the art field, she moved to the U.S. where she pursued graduate studies and began showing professionally with the Marina Kessler Gallery and later with the Lowenstein Gallery.[9]
Clouthier's first solo show was at the Antonio Lopez Saenz Gallery, Culiacan (1998) in Mexico followed by her first U.S. solo show at the Mackey Gallery (Formerly 527) in Houston, Texas (2000). She has since held several solo shows internationally.
Personal life
[edit]Irene Clouthier was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico to Manuel J. Clouthier del Rincón and Leticia Carrillo Cázarez. She was the youngest of eleven children (6 girls and 5 boys). She and her twin brother, Ricardo, were the second set of fraternal twins born to her large family.[11]
In 1987, Clouthier's father, Manuel (often referred to as Maquio), ran for the presidency of Mexico. This experience put Clouthier into the public eye since she and her siblings periodically toured Mexico with Maquio during his campaign. In the year following the election, Clouthier suffered the loss of her father in a tragic car accident. This loss was rumored to be a purposeful act in response to his political activism and movement towards electoral reform.[12]
By the time Clouthier was fourteen, she publicly experienced the death of her young brother, Cid Estaban, and her father, Maquío.[13] These experiences informed Clouthier's work where she explores ideas of nostalgia, memory and play. Her work often incorporates the colors, materials, and aesthetic of her early 80s experiences and Mexican heritage. When asked about her art, Clouthier frequently mentions the cultural importance of kitsch in the Mexican aesthetic folk art and indigenous traditions.[14]
Political activism
[edit]Clouthier was brought up in a family which regularly participated in acts of political demonstrations. Clouthier continued her political activism with her performance work as part of the Floating Lab Collective with Chilean artist Edgar Endress in 2007 for the Transitio MX festival at Laboratorio de Arte Alameda Museum in Mexico City. The show TransitioMX was a simultaneous performance at the White House in the US and the Zocalo Plaza in Mexico City run over a live feed Laboratorio de Arte Alameda Museum. The show incorporated 3-minute protests with participants from the street and tackled the many issues facing the U.S. and Mexican governments at the time.
Clouthier created an immersive day of the dead installation in 2018 at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington DC. The show, titled "They Silenced Us" was dedicated to the femicide victims in Mexico using elements found in traditional Day of the Dead altars (ofrenda).[15]
As a contributor to the Icebox Collective, Clouthier has been instrumental in the three iterations of the nomadic house project[5] which addresses issues of home, conflict, and displacement.[16]
Clouthier has a long running pursuit of social injustices personally as well as professionally. Though she achieved artistic success, she also experienced some of the challenges facing immigrants in the U.S.[17] These experiences led her to volunteer work supporting the Latino community in the Washington DC metro area. She continued the non-violent protests she observed as a child and supported non-profit initiatives. She was one of the founding members of Latinas 4 Latinas and currently serves as the Vice Chair for non-profit Nueva Vida.[18]
Reference section
[edit]- ^ Clouthier, Irene (19 April 2009). "Plastics and the Fiction in Art". The Miami Herald. pp. 19 April 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ "Eight Latin American artists explored the Spectator´s Experience at Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City", Art Aldia, May 2002
- ^ Herrera, Adriana (5 February 2006). "Irene Clouthier and Her Plastic Universes". Miami Herald. p. 41. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ Jenkins, Mark (30 July 2016). "In the Galleries: Normal Rockwell Would Have Recognized These Socialist Images". The Washington Post. pp. ISSN 0190-8286.
- ^ a b c Jenkins, Mark (2025). "A Whimsical Art Tour of Foggy Bottom". The Washington Post (published 7 June 2025).
- ^ "Exotico Noreste: Photos, Computer Art, Paintings and Installations from Mexico". Stradanove. 18 February 2002. Archived from the original on 29 April 2002. Retrieved 18 February 2002.
- ^ Wario, Bertha (12 February 2002). "The Create a New Language". El Norete.
- ^ Herrera, Adriana (5 June 2012). "Eight Latin American artists explored the Spectator´s Experience at Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City". Art Aldia.
- ^ a b Bermejo, Edgardo (4 May 2022). "Cultural Diaspora: Cesare Artures and Irene Clouthier". News 22. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
- ^ Bermejo, Edgardo (24 January 2020). "Cultural Diaspora: Interview with Irene Clouthier". News 22. pp. Diáspora Cultural.
- ^ Filio Monter, Teresa (17 June 2025). "Archive of Manuel J Clouthier". The House of Maquio Website.
- ^ Rohter, Larry (5 July 1988). "A Killing Inflames Mexican Campaign". The New York Times. pp. Section A Page 3.
- ^ Douriet, Esther (16 June 2025). "Historical Archive". The House of Maquio.
- ^ Nelly, Sanchez (11 September 2022). "Irene Clouthier Gives Back the Importance of Everyday Objects". Noroeste.
- ^ Estevez, Dolia (2 November 2018). "The Dead Also Speak". Sin Embargo.
- ^ East City Art Editorial Team (2 October 2022). "The Icebox Collective presents the Nomadic House Project - Cloud(s) at the Mexican Cultural Institute". East City Art.
- ^ Anderson, John (7 July 2013). ""The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington" at the Katzen Arts Center, Reviewed". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Jimenez, Astrid (17 June 2025). "About Nueva Vida". Neuva Vida.
