Isabella Ducrot b. 1931

Isabella Ducrot was born in Naples, Italy.

Lives and works in Rome, Italy.

Ducrot is known for her devoted use of woven cloth as the founding material of her paintings. Only beginning her artistic career later in life, the Italian artist has assembled a sublime collection of antique textiles through her extensive travels through Asia, originating primarily from Turkey, India, China, Tibet and Afghanistan.

Ducrot’s solo shows include Le Consortium, Dijon 2024, MAXXI Taormina, 2023, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel 2022, San Giuseppe alle Scalze a Pontecorvo, Napoli 2021, Spazio Parlato, Palermo 2018 and Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples 2015. In 2024 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Sadio Colew HQ and Standard showed a joint solo presentation at Frieze Masters, London.

In 2014 Ducrot had a major exhibitions at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome and participated at the Venice Biennales in 2011 and 1993. Recent Group exhibitions include Zweigstelle Capitain III – Napoli, Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome, Villa Lontana, Rome, both 2021 and Standard (Oslo) 2020, among others. Isabella Ducrot is also the author of numerous publications, including Twenty-Two Places of the Soul 2022, Women’s Life 2021, La stoffa a quadri 2019, and La Matassa Primordiale 2008. Additionally, she participated in the Venice Biennale in 1993 and 2011. 

In 2024 Ducrot created the stage and setting for the Dior SS24 Collection at Musée Rodin in Paris, invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri.