Isai Of Los Angeles

Isai De Los Angeles is a Los Angeles based artist raised in South Central primarily working in painting, photography, sculpture, and ceramics. Growing up in a family owned business in South Central has influenced Isai to create work about the people who work and live within the community. Isai interprets small business culture around him in both past and present to create work that deals primarily with labor and family history. Isai’s current body of work consists of portraits of his mother and father, portraying them in their family owned dry cleaning business established in 2007. Isai includes photographs in his paintings through photo transfers to mirror the documentation and recording of family history.

Isai De Los Angeles has received a Praxis teaching artist fellowship award. He has work archived in the Donald R. & Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections in California, as well as published work in ​Enjambed magazine. His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout southern California including: Black Umbrella Tattoo and Art Gallery, Winston Hewitt Studio, and the University Art Gallery at the California State University of Dominguez Hills. Isai has prepared, and installed art pieces working directly with artists at galleries such as Launch LA and Residency Art Gallery, as well as in the desert for the very first Candlewood Arts Festival held in Borrego Springs, CA.

Watch Isai’s video interview with ñ here.