Isabella Benshimol Toro (1994) is a Caracas-born, London-based artist. Her work draws from the need to freeze in time actions, gestures and ephemeral sensations of everyday domestic life. Departing from photography, she reuses personal and intimate objects like used clothes and other domestic artefacts, giving them a new meaning and purpose through the use of lustrous and transparent materials like epoxy resin and silicone, with which she creates sculptures and installations. Simulating the way photography chemically emulsifies an image on photosensitive film, in her practice, she captures and edits moments to create what she calls “monuments to the unconscious”. Her intention is to provide space for critical reflection on notions of intimacy, domesticity, power, and value.
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2024 TBC (Group exhibition) Guts Gallery, curated by Maddalena Iodice, London, UK
2025 TBC (solo exhibition) PLATABANDA, Caracas, Venezuela
2025 TBC (solo exhibition), Neven Gallery, London, UK
2018-2020 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2012-2016 BA Visual Arts (Cum Laude), Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), Milan, Italy
2010 Summer pre-college program, RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), Providence, U
2024 Rinse and Hold (solo exhibition), ZERUI, London, UK
2024 Paloma Wool x Isabella Benshimol, Solo presentation, via fatebenefratelli 5, Milan, Italy
2024 Sketches (solo exhibition), curated by Mathilde Friis and Gonzalo Herrero, (site-specific)11 Grosvenor Place, London, UK
2023 Culebras and WC Sketches, Cornershop x Minor Attractions with ZERUI, London, UK
2017 I Know You Are Collecting a Lot of Light with Ugo Martinez Lázaro, Estudio Beneficencia, Madrid, Spain
2024 No future, Triangolo, Palazzo Guazzoni,Cremona, Italy
2024 Surface Tension, curated by Anastasia Chugunova, Des Bains, London, UK
2024 Re-Framing Material Culture (group exhibition), curated by STANDARD404, Frappant e.V. gallerie, Hamburg, Germany
2023 The Sundown of Disquiet, co-curated by Domenico de Chirico, ZERUI, London, UK
2022 Everything I do could be done differently, piloto pardo, hosted by Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, UK
2022 Autorretratos, Próxima, Hacienda la Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela
2022 SEX, Moarain House, London, UK
2021 Me and my friends, part 2, Korai, Nicosia, Cyprus
2021 Descripción de un Estado Físico, Galería Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
2021 El Dormitorio, curated by Esther Merinero and Vera Martín, CCCC Centro del Carme Cultura Contemporánea, Valencia, Spain
2021 Reconfigured, curated by Rose Easton, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, US
2021 Claro del Bosque, Intersticio, Madrid, Spain
2020 Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2020 London Grads Now, curated by Januario Jano, Saatchi Gallery, London UK
2020 Un gesto que permanece, curated by Vera Martin, Salón, Madrid, Spain
2020 Heterotopia, curated by Felice Moramarco, Oen gallery, Kabelvåg, Norway
2020 Pou sou nefko peu paeis, Korai, Nicosia, Cyprus
2019 The one that’s always there, the one that came late, the one that never arrived, the one that wasn’t invited, SB34-The Pool, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Solo show, curated by Casa Antillón, Casabanchel, Madrid, Spain
2019 Interim Show MFA Goldsmiths, Deptford studios, London, UK
2019 Ni sí, ni no; ni blanco, ni negro, curated by Archipiélago, Madrid, Spain
2019 Long Live The New Flesh, The Biscuit Factory, London, UK
2019 Mater Matter, curated by Valeria Biamonti, Via San Primo 4, Milan, Italy
2019 Baldea, curated by Esther Merinero and Vera Martín, Calle Islas Británicas 5 Madrid, Spain
2019 Casa Antillón, curated by Casa Antillón, Madrid, Spain
2018 Archipiélago, Former British Embassy in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2017 Mediterranea 17 Biennale, EXOTIC EMBASSY with Mati Jhurry, Tirana, Albania
2016 Como era gostoso o meu francês, curated by Marlon de Azambuja and Maya Saravia, Espacio OTR, Madrid, Spain
2016 Aviso di Garanzia, Fuori Uso, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Pescara, Italy
2015 Theatre of Learning, Reinterpretation of Waltz by Joan Jonas in collaboration with Mati Jhurry, curated by Marco Scotini, NABA, Milan, Italy
2024 Spring Residency at Good Eye Projects, London UK
2022 Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 Shortlisted artist VIA Arts Prize 2020 Finalists’ Exhibition
2020 Residency at The New Artist, online platform, London, UK
2017 Sculpture summer residency, SVA, New York, USA
2017 Honour Mention at Mediterranea 17 Biennale – with Mati Jhurry, Tirana, Albania
2017 Residency at HANGAR Centro de Investigacão Artística, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 Residency at Affect at Agora (Conglomerate), Berlin, Germany
2016 Residency at Spazio /77, Milan, Italy
2015 Selected artist at Showcase Villaggio d’Artista, Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy
March 2022 – Elephant Magazine – ‘Elephant’s pick of March’s Essential Artists’
Jan 2022 – AD Spain – ‘Descripción de un Estado Físico’ at Galeria Elba Benitez
July 2021 – AD Spain – ‘El Dormitorio’ at CCCC Centro del Carme Cultura Contemporánea
May 2021 – Wallpaper – ‘Reconfigured’ at Timothy Taylor NY
May 2021 – Art Viewer – ‘Claro del Bosque’ at Intersticio
Sept 2017 – Interview with Sink.sexy