Isabelle Duverger

Isabelle Duverger is an award winning French interdisciplinary artist born in St Germain En Laye, France. She has a Masters Degree in Communication and Arts Management from the Audencia Nantes, France and ASB, Aarhus, Denmark and is also a graduate of the Estienne School of Art in graphic communications in Paris. Her expertise is in animation and projection mapping, and she works between New York and Europe. For the past nine years, she has been working as projection designer and illustrator/animator for theater plays such as the theater festival Inspiracion (Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, NYC, 2008), the multimedia plays La Jaula Bajo El Trapo (King Juan Carlos Center of NYU, NYC, 2008), Playing Equality (NYC, 2009 and Valencia, Spain, 2010), Mapping Mobius (La Mama Theater, NYC, 2010), Road to Happiness (Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, 2011), Garden of Delights" (Theater for the New City, NYC, 2012), Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino (Dixon Place, NYC, 2014), Night by Charles Mee, (Theater For the New City, NYC, 2015), Ronensbourgh by Beatriz Cabur (IATI theater, NYC, 2015), Emilie by Radegund Hain (TNC, 2015), Sincronizada by Mar Gómez Glez (Teatro Del Canal, Festival Talent Madrid Finalist, 2016), in collaboration with filmmaker and video-artist Laia Cabrera. As a visual artist, she has created drawing animations, still photography and illustrations for video-art pieces by Laia Cabrera such as Is there an edge of Belief? (Jaen Femenino, Spain 2009 - Biennale of Art of Venezuela, Merida, 2010), the video-performance-concert Walk-Pasa-Bouge (New York - Brussels, 2009-2011), the installation-performances Claim Your Place (Centro Español NYC - Tournefeuille, France, 2010), Shifting Gaze (Spain Art Fest '10, Times Square, New York, 2010, Region Ø, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of NYU, 2011 and Georgetown Glow Festival, Washington DC, 2016), Resonant Streams (The Value of Water series in the Cathedral Saint John The Divine in New York, 2011), and the virtual set for the performance Landscapes of the Soul (La Mama, October 2012). She also designed projection mappings such as Untitled Mind, a video-dance piece by Laia Cabrera, implemented as an indoor/outdoor video and sound installation in Nuit Blanche-Art All Night (Washington DC, 2013), a one-year video installation with Mapping for the Pop-Up Store Pikolinos in the Meatpacking district (NYC, 2013), the visual concert Aire presented at the Tempietto di Bramante Roma, Italy, 2014, Art All Night Washington DC, 2015, and in Poughkeepsie, 2016... Recent animation works include Telly Award winner "Jim", Communicator Award winner "Patient Portal", NYIT nominee "Distance to the moon" as part of Cosmicomics multimedia play, the opening and closing credits drawings and animations for feature film "White Alligator", "City In Motion" curated by Reebok Creative Lab, Beefsteak animations "Stop the Hangry" and "Vegetable Unleashed" ... Isabelle Duverger is a three-time New York Innovative Theater Awards nominee for Outstanding Innovative Design (Projection Design, Video-Art and Animations) in 2015 for "Night" at the Theater for the New City, in 2014 for "Cosmicomics" at Dixon Place, and in 2013 for "Garden of Delights" at the Theater for the New City, 2013, and 2015 NYIT award winner for "Night" Outstanding Performance Art Production with the New Stage Theatre Company. She is also the recipient of the AVA digital Awards 2013, Telly Awards 2013 and Communicator Awards 2014 for best Animations, Telly Awards 2014 for Outstanding Art Direction and Telly Awards 2016 for Outstanding Directing.