Isabelle Gougenheim

Isabelle Gougenheim is a French-American contemporary artist and designer based in Chicago. Born in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, she earned a master’s degree in Art and Ethnology from Les Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg before relocating to Chicago in her twenties. After more than two decades in the design industry, including roles at Holly Hunt and the Kevin Reilly Collection, she dedicated herself fully to her artistic practice in 2017.

Inspired by urban landscapes, travel, and cartography, Gougenheim creates vibrant, layered works that extend across fine art and wearable design. Her practice includes mixed-media paintings, sculptural objects, and accessories drawn from her original artworks, allowing her visual language to move freely between wall pieces and pieces to wear. Working with materials such as glass, wood, raw canvas, and silk, she combines painting, collage, spray paint, acrylics, and stitching to create works that sit at the intersection of art, fashion, and design.

Gougenheim has exhibited internationally in cities such as Paris, Miami, and Dubai, and is represented by galleries including Galerie Murmure (Colmar, France) and Galería Casa Colón (Mérida, Mexico). Her wearable art is carried by museums and fashion boutiques across the United States and France, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Norton Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.