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, 2015Earthly Delights, Performing Santa Caterina, Foligno, Italy, 2016Spoleto Contemporanea, Museo Carandente, Spoleto, Italy, 2015Ovest, Palazzo Leonetti-Luparini, Spoleto, Italy, 2015CLOSE UP, Museo Carandente, Spoleto, Italy, 2015Baculus, Museo Carandente etc., Spoleto, Italy, 2014Ricognizione 2014 - Arte Contemporanea in Umbria, CIAC, Foligno, Italy, 2014IL TEATRINO DELLE BELLE FIGURE, Biblioteca comunale - Rocca Albornoziana, Spoleto, Italy, 2011-12+50, Museo Carandente, Spoleto, Italy, 2012Porträt, Kunstraum T27, Berlin, Germany, 2010Walking the Dog,Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrueck, Germany, 2010Mediamorfosi 2.0, Sublab, Portici, Italy, 2010OSTRALE´010,Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden, Germany, 2010Natur - Mensch 2010, Nationalpark Harz, Sankt Andreasberg, Germany, 2010Horizonte, Altes Museum Neukölln, Berlin, Germany, 2010Nord Art 2010,Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büddelsdorf, Germany, 2010LUST, 1. Bazonnale, Weimar, Germany, 2010 Druckfigur, Galerie Südliches Friesland, Zetel, Germany, 2009MANIFEST DESTINIES, 53. Biennale d´Arte, Venice, Italy, 2009MAnATURE, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, Germany 2009...Where Angels Fear to Tread, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Spoleto, Italy, 2009I diavoli di Jeffrey Isaac, Villa Fabri o Boemi, Trevi, Italy, 2008Dogs, Devils & Disasters, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Germany, 2007Videosanti, c.a.l.m.a., Perugia, Italy, 2007Profane & Sacred, Auditorium della Stella, Spoleto, Italy, 200610 Dog’s Tales, Festival dei Presidi, Orbetello, Italy, 1999Umbrian Walk, Castello di Poreta, Spoleto, Italy, 1998Magic Show, Galerie Commercio, Zürich, Switzerland, 1998Passage of Birds, Monti Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy, 1997Subway to Caserta, Mediarte, Caserta, Italy, 1996Animal Portraits, Planita, Rome; Palazzo Comunale, Spoleto, Italy,1995Per mari e monti, Macerata, Italy, 1995Bestiario" Studio Cristofori, Bologna, Italy, 1994Kleine Retrospektive, Galerie Commercio, Zürich, Switzerland, 1994Subway to Italy, Salvatore Ala, NYC, USA, 1994Panorama di Bazzano Superiore, Planita, Rome, Italy, 1994Dina Carola, Naples, Italy 199393 Olives, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy, 1993Madonna del Pozzo, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy, 1991Galerie Feusisberg, Feusisberg, Switzerland, 1990Panorama di Bazzano Superiore, Spoletosfera, Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, 1990Neue Galerie a16, Zürich, Switzerland, 1990Galerie Nada Relic, Zürich, Switzerland, 1990Palazzo Rosari Spada, Spoleto, Italy, 1989Galerie Nada Relic, Zürich, Switzerland, 1988Galerie Murbach, Horgen, Switzerland, 1987Edison Hall Gallery, Edison, NJ, USA, 1985Phenix City Art Gallery, NYC, USA, 1985Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, 1984ZONA, Florence, Italy, 1982Galerie 38, Zürich, Switzerland, 1979, 1977, 1976Jeffrey Isaac, Theo Feig Bd. 2, Berlin, 2009Jeffrey Isaac: Dog, Devils & Disasters, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Schwetzingen, 2007