Bio

Madjeen Isaac is a first generation Haitian-American artist whose practice is rooted in home, communality and belonging. Isaac reimagines and hybridizes landscapes to center boundless Black and immigrant existences that depict joy, leisure, and liberation, ultimately challenging the constraints of reality. She is heavily influenced by her upbringing in Brooklyn, surrounded by Caribbean culture, and especially informed by her observations that both are strongly family- and community-centered. Isaac aims to develop work that serve as blueprints to guide, metamorphose, and upheave society. By reimagining and suggesting ideal worlds of access and autonomy, she inspires viewers to internalize and claim their right to a better reality.

Isaac is currently an artist in residence at Smack Mellon. She has had residencies/fellowships including BRIClab: Contemporary Artist Residency Program, the Laundromat Project Fellowship and Lakou NOU Artist Residency Program at Haiti Cultural Exchange. She has exhibited at Swivel Gallery, Jenkins Johnson Projects Gallery, The Frost Art Museum, The Art and Design Gallery at FIT among others. Her awards include a Women of Distinction Award from NY Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and the City Artist Corps Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She received a BFA degree in Fine Art from the Fashion Institute of Technology and an MA in Art + Edu & Community Practice from New York University.