Isabel Manalo

Isabel is a Visual Artist who has been exhibiting her work professionally since 1999 after she received her MFA from Yale University’s School of Art in Painting. She has had numerous solo and group shows around the world and continues to be represented by Addison Ripley Fine Art Gallery in Washington D.C. where she has had six solo shows. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections and has been the subject of group and solo exhibitions at the Orlando Museum of Art,, the Paul Zuccaire Gallery at the University of Stonybrook, the Contemporary Art Center of Arlington, the Takt Gallery in Berlin, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Den Contemporary in Los Angeles, just to name a few. Isabel received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.S in Art and Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the Founder and Director of The Studio Visit (thestudiovisit.com) journal that was a collaborative non-profit journal and organization that featured emerging and mid-career artists in their studios. She taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at American University for three years and as an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University. She also taught at The Maret School and The Edmund Burke School. She is the mother of two Gen Z daughters and lives and works in Bethesda, MD.