Chloe Wise

Chloe Wise (born 1990) is a Canadian artist based in New York City. Wise works in sculpture, drawing, video art, and oil painting.

In 2014, actor Bobbi Menuez attended a Chanel launch event wearing Wise's sculpture, "Bagel No. 5," a realistic sculpture of a bagel with cream cheese adorned with a Chanel purse chain and charm. The sculpture was believed to be a real purse designed by Chanel, until it was revealed that the "bag" was part of a collection created by Wise.

Early life and education Wise was born in Montreal, Quebec. She graduated from Concordia University in 2013 with a degree in Fine Arts and Art History.

Work In 2013, Wise began a collection of sculptures featuring different kinds of bread adorned with designer labels modeled after various It bags.

Wise's first gallery show with Almine Rech, Of false beaches and butter money, in Paris, France in 2017. Two more exhibitions with Almine Rech took place in 2019, Lineup in New York and Not That We Don’t in London.

In 2019, designer Simon Porte Jacquemus worked with Wise to illustrate the designer's Spring 2019 campaign.

Wise's first institutional exhibition was in 2019 at Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, titled And Everything Was True.

For the 2021 exhibition, Thank You For The Nice Fire, at Almine Rech Gallery, a reference to a scene in Don DeLillo's White Noise. The exhibition featured paintings of friends, like model and photographer Richie Shazam, as well as trompe-l'oeil chandeliers and sconces that looked like romaine lettuce covered in caesar dressing. Wise also had work at Fantasy America at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Themes Wise often critiques consumer culture, commercialization, ideas of wellness, and the self-construction of identity with a balance of comedy and sincere optimism. Wise employs comedic and satirical strategies while using references to art history, such as the pronkstillevens that inspired sculptures in her exhibition Of false beaches and butter money.

Solo exhibitions

Myth Information, Almine Rech, New York, US, 2025 But Wait There's More!, On the High Line, New York, NY, US, 2024 Torn Clean, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium, 2024 Thank You For The Nice Fire, Almine Rech, New York, NY, 2021 Second Nature, Almine Rech, online, New York, NY, 2020 And Everything Was True, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark, 2019 Not That We Don't, Almine Rech, London, England, 2019 Tennis Elbow, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY, 2019 Coast unclear seeks rained parade, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland, 2018 Of false beaches and butter money, Almine Rech, Paris, France, 2017 Cats not fighting is a horrible sound as well, Galerie Division, Montreal, Canada, 2016 Full-Size Body, Erotic Literature, Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2015 That's Something Else, My Sweet, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland, 2015 pissing, shmoozing and looking away, Galerie Division, Montreal, and Division Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2015

Publications

Chloe Wise: Second Nature, 2021, Almine Rech Editions Chloe Wise, 2016, Division Gallery (Canada) and Galerie Sebastien Bertrand (Switzerland)

Collections

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, US The Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON