photo by Nori McDuffie
Isabel is a painter and researcher whose work explores routes of medicine that echo and overlap. Through painting, practicing herbalism, and engaging with ancestry, they learn and unlearn rigid and binary concepts of health and medicine through Western and Eastern perspectives.
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2025, Art Resident, WilderHaven, Daliang Mountains, Sichuan, China
2025, Fall Artist in Residence, Peter Bullough Foundation, Winchester, VA
2023–current, Fellow, Committee on Racial Equity, Raleigh, NC
2023, Emerging Artist in Residence, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2022, Artist in Residence, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025, Noble Gentlemen, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
2024, Your Ocean is on Fire, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2023, YÍNG YANG [NUTRITION], Golden Belt Gallery, Durham, NC
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, Indelible, Greenhill, Greensboro, NC
2024, Holding Space: Dreams and Memories, Ella West Gallery, Durham, NC
2023, 69th Annual Juried Exhibition (1st place), Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
2023, NC Artists Exhibition, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Raleigh, NC
2023, COSO 2023 Biennial: COSO 10, VAE, Raleigh, NC
2023, Spring Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
2022, NC Artists Exhibition, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Raleigh, NC
2022, Portrait Mode, Pop Box Gallery, Durham, NC
EDUCATION
Masters of Public Health, Dietetics, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Bachelors of Science, Nutritional Science, Cornell University