Claude Ibrahimoff was born and raised next to Paris where she studied a couple of years at the design school Met de Penninghen et Jacques d'Andon and worked as an apprentice in the atelier of the Italian sculptor Louis Molinari.
While she studied painting and worked on collages, she also pursued research studying Soviet cinema and art and spent some months on a scholarship in Kyiv, completing her masters degree on Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko.
Soon after, Claude Ibrahimoff left Paris for San Francisco and the Bay Area, finally settling in Marin County, where she began work on a series of original "Totems." Her sculptural and abstract totems and paintings are partially influenced by Russian artists, like Malevich and Kandinsky, as well as American artists, like Jasper Johns and Rothko.
In parallel, Ibrahimoff worked as a film editor and edited independently produced films and documentaries including “Portrait of Imogen” and “Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life.”
Ibrahimoff has exhibited her works in Paris and Dordogne—from where her family originates on her mother's side—and has also displayed her work at local venues in the Bay Area.
Exhibits
2025
Red, Blue, Yellow - AWD-Art Works Downtown San Rafael, CA - June 13-July 19,2025 - ArtworksDowntown
Get there Why Not, My Black Square, Red Square (Canvases acrylic 12"x12") -
Canvases
Joie Debris - Celebrating recycled art - ACCI Gallery, Berkeley - April 5-May 4, 2025 -
ACCI Gallery
Eclats Totem - recycled wood, industrial paint, mirror - Large Totems
Members Exhibit - AWD, Art Works Downtown - San Rafael, CA - November 29, 2024-January 25, 2025
Life Puzzle(Small Totem Series, 22"x22")
ArtworksDowntown
2024
TheNearFutureAgo - Group Exhibit organized at the Beercraft Brewery, Novato - August 23, 2024
Life Puzzle (Small Totem Series, 22"x22")
TheNearFutureAgo
McCall Gallery - Claude/Cibra - August-October 2024 - 607 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 - White Linen Night, August 3, 2024
mccallgallery.com
Signs & Symbols, GALLERIUM Online Exhibit - exhibizone.com - January 10-March 10, 2024
Time Warp (Small Totem Time Series),
www.exhibizone.com/p/circlessquarestriangles2024.html?TP=artworks
Circles Squares Triangles - Exhibizone Online Exhibit - January 5-March 5, 2024
Paris (Totem Series),
www.exhibizone.com/p/circlessquarestriangles2024.html?TP=artworks
2023
McCall Gallery - Claude/Cibra - August-October 2024 -- White Linen Night, August 5, 2023
607 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 - mccallgallery.com
2020
Celestial and Earthly Illuminations - Gallery IAMA - International Art Museum of America Tendergold Gallery, 1023 Market St., San Francisco - March 3-29, 2020 - Claude Ibrahimoff and Lisa Mee - RECEPTION Friday, March 6, 5-8 pm
iamasf.org
2019
Totems and Symbols - Solo Exhibit - Art Works Downtown Donor’s Gallery, San Rafael, August 9-September 7, 2019
artworksdowntown.org
Art at MSRI: Works by Virginia Davis and Claude Ibrahimoff - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA - Curated by William Glass
slmath.org
2018
Group Exhibits - Art Works Downtown - San Rafael CA
Windows Art Works Downtown, Founders' Gallery, San Rafael, CA - December 2018
Walls, Small Works
, Art Works Downtown, Main Gallery, San Rafael, CA
Bank of Marin, San Rafael, CA
Water Fire Sun- –Juried by Art Works Downtown
Solo Exhibit, Aroma Café - San Rafael, CA - October-December 2018
2016
Solo Exhibit, Aroma Café - San Rafael, CA - January18-February 29, 2016
2014
OCA Gallery, The Occidental Center of the Arts - Juried Exhibition, Occidental, CA
Paris, Sienna, Aix, Good News,Mix It Up
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2001
Solo Exhibit - Fairfax Library, Fairfax, CA
2000
Les Peintres du Sud de la France - Mairie des Gobelins - Paris, France
Trois Églises, Traffic, Night Club, Prêt à Porter, Mood 1, Mood 2, Guerre
Group Exhibit juried by Dollar Gallery, Falkirk Cultural Center - San Rafael, CA
