Jeffrey Isaac (Born 1956 in New York) is a painter and video artist.
Further to his own artistic practice he is the publisher of the so-called "world's smallest magazine of its kind" named Public Ilumination Magazine.
Born in the United States of America, he spent his childhood in Switzerland. He studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design in the United States and at Camberwell School of Art in London. Since 1976 Jeffrey Isaac has been showing his paintings in numerous exhibitions in the U.S., Switzerland, Italy and Germany. In 1986 he moved to Umbria near the town of Spoleto. There he met the American artist Sol LeWitt who became a good friend. During the period from 1999 to 2006, he devoted more of his time to video. In 2004, a minor scandal surrounded a banner he had painted at the invitation of the town Foligno for the annual central procession that showed the patron saint Feliciano riding virtually naked on a horse. In 2007 he designed the animation for the performance of IL CORVO by the LaMama Experimental Theater Company at the 38th Biennale Teatro in Venice. In 2009, a selection of paintings from this period was shown at the exhibition DETOURNEMENT VENISE 2009 a collateral event of the 53rd Venice Biennale.
102 Hands, Museo della Chirurgia, Preci, Italy, 2015
Earthly Delights, Performing Santa Caterina, Foligno, Italy, 2016
Spoleto Contemporanea, Museo Carandente, Spoleto, Italy, 2015
Ovest, Palazzo Leonetti-Luparini, Spoleto, Italy, 2015
CLOSE UP, Museo Carandente, Spoleto, Italy, 2015
Baculus, Museo Carandente etc., Spoleto, Italy, 2014
Ricognizione 2014 - Arte Contemporanea in Umbria, CIAC, Foligno, Italy, 2014
IL TEATRINO DELLE BELLE FIGURE, Biblioteca comunale - Rocca Albornoziana, Spoleto, Italy, 2011-12
+50, Museo Carandente, Spoleto, Italy, 2012
Porträt, Kunstraum T27, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Walking the Dog,Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrueck, Germany, 2010
Mediamorfosi 2.0, Sublab, Portici, Italy, 2010
OSTRALE´010,Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden, Germany, 2010
Natur - Mensch 2010, Nationalpark Harz, Sankt Andreasberg, Germany, 2010
Horizonte, Altes Museum Neukölln, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Nord Art 2010,Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büddelsdorf, Germany, 2010
LUST, 1. Bazonnale, Weimar, Germany, 2010
Druckfigur, Galerie Südliches Friesland, Zetel, Germany, 2009
MANIFEST DESTINIES, 53. Biennale d´Arte, Venice, Italy, 2009
MAnATURE, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, Germany 2009
...Where Angels Fear to Tread, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Spoleto, Italy, 2009
I diavoli di Jeffrey Isaac, Villa Fabri o Boemi, Trevi, Italy, 2008
Dogs, Devils & Disasters, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Germany, 2007
Videosanti, c.a.l.m.a., Perugia, Italy, 2007
Profane & Sacred, Auditorium della Stella, Spoleto, Italy, 2006
10 Dog’s Tales, Festival dei Presidi, Orbetello, Italy, 1999
Umbrian Walk, Castello di Poreta, Spoleto, Italy, 1998
Magic Show, Galerie Commercio, Zürich, Switzerland, 1998
Passage of Birds, Monti Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy, 1997
Subway to Caserta, Mediarte, Caserta, Italy, 1996
Animal Portraits, Planita, Rome; Palazzo Comunale, Spoleto, Italy,1995
Per mari e monti, Macerata, Italy, 1995
Bestiario" Studio Cristofori, Bologna, Italy, 1994
Kleine Retrospektive, Galerie Commercio, Zürich, Switzerland, 1994
Subway to Italy, Salvatore Ala, NYC, USA, 1994
Panorama di Bazzano Superiore, Planita, Rome, Italy, 1994
Dina Carola, Naples, Italy 1993
93 Olives, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy, 1993
Madonna del Pozzo, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy, 1991
Galerie Feusisberg, Feusisberg, Switzerland, 1990
Panorama di Bazzano Superiore, Spoletosfera, Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, 1990
Neue Galerie a16, Zürich, Switzerland, 1990
Galerie Nada Relic, Zürich, Switzerland, 1990
Palazzo Rosari Spada, Spoleto, Italy, 1989
Galerie Nada Relic, Zürich, Switzerland, 1988
Galerie Murbach, Horgen, Switzerland, 1987
Edison Hall Gallery, Edison, NJ, USA, 1985
Phenix City Art Gallery, NYC, USA, 1985
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, 1984
ZONA, Florence, Italy, 1982
Galerie 38, Zürich, Switzerland, 1979, 1977, 1976
Jeffrey Isaac, Theo Feig Bd. 2, Berlin, 2009
Jeffrey Isaac: Dog, Devils & Disasters, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Schwetzingen, 2007