Pia Camil
Pia Camil (born 1980) is a Mexican contemporary artist. Camil works in painting, sculpture, installation and performance.
Pia Camil
- Name
- Pia Camil
- Born
- 1980
- Birthplace
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Education
- Rhode Island School of Design, Slade School of Fine Art
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Occupation
- artist · painter · photographer
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Pia Camil (born 1980) is a Mexican contemporary artist. Camil works in painting, sculpture, installation and performance.
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• Name — Pia Camil • Born — 1980 • Birthplace — Mexico City, Mexico • Education — Rhode Island School of Design, Slade School of Fine Art • Website — https: piacamil.me/
Biography
Biography
Pia Camil was born in 1980 in Mexico City, Mexico. Camil was raised in Mexico City. Camil focused on studying painting in her college education. She earned a B.F.A. in Painting in 2003 from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an M.F.A. in 2008 from the Slade School of Fine Art, in London. Camil’s work is usually associated with the Mexican urban landscape, the aesthetic language of modernism and its relationship to retail and advertising. Recently she has engaged in public participation as a way to activate the work and engage with the politics of consumerism. Her work is included in many public museum collections including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Centre Pompidou, Blanton Museum of Art, and others.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Velo Revelo, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (2020). • Three Works, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona (2021). • Pia Camil: Three Works, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson (already present). • Telón de Boca, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City (2018). • Fade to Black: Sit, Relax, Look, SCAD Museum, Savannah, Georgia (2018). • Bara, Bara, Bara, Dallas Contemporary, Texas (2017). • Divisor Pirata, NuMu, Guatemala City (2016). • A Pot for A Latch, Manetti Shrem Museum (UC Davis, 2016); also at New Museum, NYC (2016). • Slats, Skins & Shopfittings, Blum & Poe, New York City (2016).
Group exhibitions
Group exhibitions
• Aichi Triennial 2019, Nagoya, Japan. (2019) • 2019 Desert X Biennial, Camil's work was co-created with Cinthia Marcelle. (2019)
Identity
Identity
Pia Camil is recorded with the occupation performance artist. Recorded with the occupation photographer. Recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded as artist, painter and photographer.
Life and career
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1980
Pia Camil born at Mexico City.
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Awards and honors
• Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award for visual artists, London (2008). • European Honors Program recognition, Palazzo Cenci, Rome (2021).
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- 1.The Clark Art Institute Launches A New Contemporary Art Program With Works by Mexican Artist Pia Camil. ArtfixDaily. March 7, 2020.
- 2.Limnander, Armand. The Nine Women Leading Mexico's Cultural Renaissance. W Magazine. December 5, 2018.
- 3.Pia Camil, Mexican performance and multimedia artist. Encyclopedia Britannica.
- 4.Cepeda, Gaby. In the Studio: Pia Camil. Art in America. 2019-04-01.
- 5.Radin, Sara. Pia Camil turns old T-shirts into art. i-D. 2019-12-03.
- 6.Gleichenhaus, Becca. An Evening With Pia Camil at the Guggenheim on November 8. Hyperallergic. 2019-11-05.
- 7.La artista mexicana, Pia Camil, crea esta impactante obra para la portada de Vogue. Vogue Mexico. July 2, 2020.
- 8.Pia Camil – Instituto de Visión. Instituto de Visión.
- 9.Pia Camil – Instituto de Visión. Instituto de Visión.
- 10.Velo Revelo – Pia Camil.
- 11.Pia Camil: Three Works – MOCA Tucson.
- 12.Artista mexicano será curador en la Trienal de Aichi 2019. Centro Urbano. 2019-08-01.
- 13.Censorship Was Just One of the Aichi Triennale's Problems. Now, a Government Report Reflects on What Went Wrong. Artnet News. 2019-12-18.
- 14.Durón, Maximilíano. Following Censorship Allegations, Aichi Triennale Reopens Controversial Exhibition, Puts Back on View Works Removed by Artists. ARTnews.com. 2019-10-09.
- 15.Biller, Steven. Desert X 2019 Addresses Desert Issues, Conditions With Art Installations. Palm Springs Life. 2019-03-29.
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