Isabella Amram

Biography

Isabella Amram is a Turkish and Venezuelan painter based in London, who is currently in the process of completing a Master’s Degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art. She holds a BA from Brown University, as well as a GD in Fine Art from UAL Chelsea, and has taken part in several shows across France, Turkey and the UK. Her paintings have been acquired by important collectors, such as the Green Family Art Foundation, and she is currently working on her first solo show taking place in April in Berlin, curated by Kira Streletzki in conjunction with Deutsche Bank.

Isabella Amram’s work explores the layered intersections of presence-absence, transformation, embodiment, and meaning through the immediacy of mark-making. Painting becomes a site where materiality and energy converge in a reciprocal exchange, both shaping and being shaped by the flux of her and the surface's being-in-the-world.

Iterative marks and lines are central to Isabella’s visual language, traversing the canvas while suggesting dynamism and tension. These marks, often resembling words or script, evoke the rhythm of language while remaining deliberately illegible. They suggest communication yet resist fixed meaning, embodying undecidability. As lines intersect, layer, and dissolve, they form clusters where connections emerge, dissolve, and reform, reflecting the fractal-like structures of existence—patterns that repeat and transform at different scales. This mirrors the layered, mysterious yet overwhelming nature of existence in an age where we have access to more and more rapid information and stimuli than ever before. Isabella’s process is also highly physical, engaging with surfaces as collaborators in a dynamic exchange of movement and gesture. Through crouching, rubbing, erasing, and stabbing, her marks become conduits for habitually intangible energies to reveal themselves as part of this dance.

Ideas around phenomenology, fractal philosophy, and the trace set the foundation for Isabella’s practice, shaping her engagement with the layered, iterative, and interconnected nature of existence. She is also influenced by studies on tantric energy work, cross-cultural ancient occult imagery and ritual, and images of natural phenomena that are imperceptible to the naked eye without third-party technology. Some artists whose practices and works she often draws from are Ithell Colquhoun, Carolee Schneemann, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Georgiana Houghton, and Catherine Goodman.

Education

MA, Royal College of Art, 2024-2025

BA, Brown University, 2013-2018

Diploma, Chelsea College of Arts, 2023-2024