Irene
Mamiye

Irene Mamiye is a New York-based artist working at the intersections of photography, digital media, and material experimentation. Since 2010, her work has centered on the impact of online image culture—its excesses, its structures, and its influence on how we see and make. Through accumulating archives of internet-sourced images, manipulating automated photographic processes, and using virtual platforms, Mamiye interrogates the evolving relationship between image, memory, and meaning.

Her practice has recently expanded beyond the screen into physical form, embracing analog techniques such as monoprinting, botanical pressing, and pigment transfer. In these newer bodies of work, including the Echo Presse series, she translates the logic of digital saturation into tactile surfaces, creating works that are built through contact, residue, and visual interruption.

Drawing influence from artists such as Moholy-Nagy, Gerhard Richter, and contemporary media theorists, Mamiye explores both the expressive and philosophical limits of photography in a rapidly shifting technological landscape. Her work, at once playful and critical, reflects on the blurred boundaries between process and product, self and system.

Mamiye holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Aperture Foundation, the Museum of Arts and Design, and Gross McCleaf Gallery, and she has participated in residencies at MASS MoCA, Penumbra Foundation, and Monson Arts, among others.