Isabella Cilia is a Colombian-American artist and translator.
Her research interests include translation theory, globalization and art, and the relationship between politics and art in Latin America. Her current independent projects include an interview translation project designed to serve as a companion tool to the ground-breaking 2017 transnational exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985.
Isabella graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Central Arkansas with a bachelor’s degree in visual arts and is a recipient of the Clare Hart DeGoyler Memorial Fund Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art as well as a recipient of the LeRoy Neiman Ox-Bow Fellowship. She was the Wassaic Project 2021-2022 Programming and Exhibitions Fellow in Wassaic, New York, and the inaugural gallery fellow at Gloria’s Project Space in Ridgewood, Queens.
photo credit: Jeff Barnett-Winsby