Raphaele Shirley is a French-American multi-media artist. She lives and works in New York City. After studying fine arts at the Beaux Arts of Aix-en-Provence, Raphaele started her art career in NYC by initiating large-scale experimental projects. Some of those include Perpetual Art Machine [PAM], an interactive video installation and online web community. Recent exhibitions with [PAM] include Video Art in the Age of the Internet at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Video as Urban Condition at the Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Austria and Video Lounge curated by Michael Rush at Art Basel/Miami 2006. In 1998 she co-founded The New York International Fringe Festival and curated during the festival over 100 temporary public art installations in lower Manhattan. In addition to these collaborations, from 1997-2002 she assisted Video pioneer Nam June Paik in the development and exhibition of his public laser works, including a 30 meter wide laser water screen on the Olympic Park Lake in Seoul, Korea and Jacob’s Ladder at the Guggenheim.

Raphaele’s work spans from performance related work such as videography for music and plays, set and costume design to multi-media fine art based work such as installations, photography and sculptures. She has shown nationally and internationally and created works for venues such as the New Shakespeare Festival, Symphony Space, for directors such as Karin Coonrod and Richard Foreman. Her fine art work has been exhibited in venues such as the Moscow Biennale, Art/Basel Miami and during the 9th Istanbul and 51st Venice Biennales.