Irene Mamiye

Irene Mamiye is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York, working across photography, printmaking, video, and installation. Her practice explores the layered intersections of memory, identity, and transformation, often through analog processes that emphasize surface, tactility, and material accumulation. Born in Marseille to Egyptian parents, Mamiye’s work reflects a deep engagement with ornament, displacement, and the aesthetic vocabulary of diasporic experience.

Over the past decade, Mamiye has gained recognition for her digitally-informed works that critique visual culture, consumerism, and the circulation of images, most notably in series such as Homage, which reconfigures Instagram-sourced imagery into complex digital collages. More recently, her practice has turned fully analog with Echo Presse, a series of large-scale monoprints developed through botanical pressing, pigment transfer, and pressure-based surface treatments. These works abandon the matrix in favor of direct contact between plant material, textile, and paper, resulting in prints that function as both tactile records and emotional cartographies.

Mamiye holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School. She has participated in residencies at MASS MoCA, Monson Arts, Penumbra Foundation, and Mudhouse (Greece), among others. Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including recent solo and group shows at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Nahmad Contemporary, and the Suzhou Bay Concave Art Festival in China. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections, including MIT, Calvin Klein, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Learn more about Irene Mamiye on her website, www.irenemamiye.com, or on Instragram at @irenemamiye.