Ireland Wisdom USA, b. 1996

Ireland Wisdom (b. 1996, Los Angeles, CA) is a classically trained painter whose work threads centuries of visual tradition into the present. Educated at the Florence Academy of Art, where she honed her craft through the discipline of painting from life, Wisdom continues to work from the living model or from memory — engaging with the shifting light, breath, and movement that animate her subjects. Rooted in the lineage of the Old Masters, Wisdom’s paintings merge ancient iconography and allegory with present-day sensibilities. Through symbolic ornamentations — shells, masks, fish, braids turning into rope — her figures become vessels of both history and imagination, existing in a world where time folds and new mythologies emerge.

Wisdom has had solo exhibitions at Carlye Packer Los Angeles, CA; The Bowlish House, Somerset, UK; Kontemporary Residency, Seoul, Korea; and the Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece; Canal St, NYC Carlye Packer. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA; Maison Lune, Los Angeles, CA; Eastern Projects, Los Angeles, CA; and KIAF Art Fair, Seoul, Korea; Frieze Fair, London.