Isabel Manalo is a visual artist who has been exhibiting her work for over 30 years. Her work has been collected privately and publicly, and is included in numerous U.S. Embassies around the world, as well as The National Academy of Sciences, and The Katzen Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Isabel had her first solo show at the age of 22, right after college. She exhibited a body of work made during her senior year, using latex paint donated by a local non-profit group. Inspired by Helen Frankenthaler at the time, she made large-scale abstract expressionist works on canvas and exhibited them at a local venue called “The Mode Theatre” in Monroe, Wisconsin.

Since then, Isabel has been creating work and evolving at every phase in her life. After receiving her BS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, she continued to earn a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and then an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art.

She has currently been represented in Washington D.C by Addison Ripley Fine Art, where she has had six solo shows and curated two shows. She has had solo shows at the Orlando Museum of Art, the Paul Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University, and Gaslight Gallery in Frederick, MD. Her work has been the subject of group shows at The Katzen Art Museum, The Corcoran Museum, The Tephra Institute of Art, The Arlington Contemporary Art Center, DEN Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Solomon Fine Art in Seattle, Berlin, Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, CA, and Baltimore. Her work is in numerous public and private collections.