Chris Cyrille-Isaac

Chris Cyrille-Isaac is a poet, art critic (CRItique d’art) and independent exhibition storyteller (conteur d’exposition indépendant) based in Guadeloupe/France. He graduated in Philosophy and Art Theory at Paris 8 University and worked for several French magazines. Chris Cyrille-Isaac is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), and has received the Dauphine Prize for Contemporary Art in 2017; the Young Curator Prize of the 69th edition of Jeune Création; and the AICA France Prize in 2020. He was the curator of the exhibition « – Mais le monde est une mangrovité » (2021, Galerie Jeune Création), of which he is co-directing the catalogue (Rotolux, 2022). He has been in residency at the Villa Médici (Rome). He is currently resident at the Ateliers Médicis (Paris). As a guadeloupean writer, he is interested in emancipatory spaces (such as Mangrove forests) and in anti-colonial and autonomous cultural policies in Guadeloupe and Martinique. As a theorist and poet, he is interested in Caribbean philosophies and aesthetics. He also worked with/on afro-caribbean artists : Minia Biabiany, Valérie John, Ernest Pépin, Julien Creuzet, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Patrick Chamoiseau.