Isabelle Cornaro (b. 1974, Aurillac, lives and works in Paris and Geneva) received Degree in Art History at École du Louvre, Pairs, France in 1996. Then she studied printmaking and fine arts at Royal College of Arts, London, UK in 2001 and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France in 2002 respectively. Recent exhibitions include GAMeC, Bergamo (2022); Ludwig Museum, Konlenz (solo, 2021); Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris (solo, 2021); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021; 2020; 2014); Kannal Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2020); Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie, Sérignan (2020; 2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (group, 2017; solo, 2015) and among others. She was awarded the Nominee for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, ADIAF, Paris, France in 2021.

Isabelle Cornaro employs painting, sculpture, installation, and film in her quest to challenge the way viewers perceive art objects. Her multimedia works orchestrate careful juxtapositions that pay tribute to and reinvent traditional modes of representation. Emphasizing depth of field, larger objects are placed in the foreground and smaller ones in the background, in accordance with the traditional rules of perspective, at which Poussin excelled. “All the objects relate to the representation of nature and the construction of an image,” Cornaro explains.