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Camille Hoffman is a painter and mixed-media installation artist, living and working in New York, NY.[1][2] Using everyday materials and drawing from Philippine weaving and Jewish folk traditions, Hoffman combines personal narrative and historical critique.[3] Hoffman's work reflects on the embedded meanings of light, nature, the frontier, borders, race, gender and power in American landscape paintings of the 19th century.[3] Hoffman has worked as an arts educator and community organizer in Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, New Haven, Brooklyn, and Queens.[1][2]

Early life and education[edit]

Camille Hoffman was born in Chicago, IL in 1987. She earned her BFA in Community Arts and Painting from the California College of the Arts in 2009.[2] She received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2015, during which she received the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for excellence in painting and a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for research in Spain.[1][2][4][5]

Art[edit]

Camille Hoffman's work examines colonial histories, consumerism, and play. Her paintings and installations layer traditional art materials with textures and objects from the everyday.[2]

Hoffman's landscape works are a mixed-media meditation on Manifest Destiny and its representation in the romantic American landscape.[6] She reflects on the enclosed meanings found in light, nature, the frontier, borders, race, gender and power in the 19th century American landscape paintings.[7] Taking inspiration from her ancestors' Philippine weaving techniques and Jewish folk traditions, with the addition of traditional landscape painting techniques from her academic training, Hoffman integrates refuse into the image, to reveal trans-cultural contradictions.[2][7] These works incorporate holiday-themed tablecloths, discarded medical records, nature calendars, plastic bags, paint, and other materials to make imaginary landscapes grounded in accumulation, personal narrative and history.[8]

Hoffman has been the recipient of numerous honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Award and the Van Lier Fellowship from the Museum of Arts and Design.[1][2][4][9]

Exhibits[edit]

Hoffman has exhibited her work throughout the United States and in Europe.

Solo exhibitions[edit]

2005. Subway, Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ[10]

2009. Summer Spectacular, Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ[10]

2009. About Face: Deconstructing Diversity in the Institution, Center Gallery, Oakland, CA[10]

2014. Music & Conversation, Indo-Pacific Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT[10]

2015. Service, Marquand Chapel, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT[10]

2015. 2,015 But Who's Counting: Yale MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT[10]

2018. Excelsior: Ever Upward, Ever Afloat, Queens Museum, Queens, NY (through August 26, 2019)[11]

2018. Rockabye My Bedrock Bones, False Flag Projects, Long Island City, NY[12]

2018. Pieceable Kingdom, Fellow Focus, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY[2][6][13][14]

Group exhibitions[edit]

2007. A Class Act, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA[10]

2007. Rest in Peace, Rise in Peace, South Gallery, Oakland, CA[10]

2007. Dialects of the Heart, Corazon Del Pueblo Gallery, Oakland, CA[10]

2008. MASIVAMENTE, Espai Cultural Biblioteca Azorín, Valencia, Spain[10]

2008. The Future of Culture, North/South Gallery, Oakland, CA[10]

2011. Road to the Hidden Green Village, 3rdeye(sol)ation Gallery, Brooklyn, NY[10]

2012. Intensive Exhibition, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY[10]

2013. Splendor in the Grass, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT[15]

2015. Jew as the Other, Abrazo Interno Gallery Clemente Center, New York, NY[15]

2015. Arresting Patterns, Artspace, New Haven, CT[10]

2015. Yale Painting and Printmaking Graduates 2015, Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York, NY[16]

2015. SEEN, Yale institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, CT[17]

2016. New Genealogies, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT[18]

2017. LifeWtr Open Gallery, Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY[15]

2017. Art By a Woman, LifeWtr digital exhibition, Times Square and Oculus at World Trade Center, New York, NY[15]

2018. Volumes: Queens International 2018, Queens Museum, Queens, NY[19][20]

2018. Art, Artists & You, Children's Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY[21]

2018. Home: Making Space for Radical Love and Struggle, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA[15]

2018. People I Love Who Are Far Away, E.TAY Gallery, New York, NY[15]

2019. Ineffable Manifestations, Yale Institute of Sacred Music[22]

2019. Here We Land, Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY (forthcoming)[23]

Awards[edit]

  • 2007 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, Study in Valencia, Spain[15]
  • 2008 Community Student Fellow, California College of the Arts[15]
  • 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship[15]
  • 2014 Schickle-Collingwood Prize, Yale University School of Art[15]
  • 2015 Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting[15]
  • 2015 Yale University John A. Carrafiell Scholarship[15]
  • 2015 Yale University School of Art Editor's Choice[15]
  • 2015 New American Paintings, No. 116, Northeast Issue[15]
  • 2016 Nomination for Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant[15]
  • 2017 Van Lier Fellowship, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY[15]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Camille Hoffman". False Flag. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Fellow Focus: Camille Hoffman: Pieceable Kingdom". madmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  3. ^ a b "Camille Hoffman || Wave Hill - New York Public Garden and Cultural Center". Wave Hill. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  4. ^ a b BWW News Desk. "Camille Hoffman to Present New Mixed-Media Landscapes That Critique Colonial Histories". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  5. ^ "Queens International 2018: Volumes". www.queensmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  6. ^ a b "Critiquing Colonial Histories Camille Hoffman's New Mixed-Media Landscapes at Museum of Arts and Design | BLOUIN ARTINFO". www.blouinartinfo.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  7. ^ a b "Camille Hoffman; Art, Cultural Identity and Polly Pockets". Young Hot & Modern. 2017-07-07. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  8. ^ "Camille Hoffman". Matter of Hand. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  9. ^ "Queens International 2018: Volumes". www.queensmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Camille Hoffman". QueenSpace. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  11. ^ "Queens Museum". Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  12. ^ "Rockabye My Bedrock Bones | False Flag | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  13. ^ "Camille Hoffman: Pieceable Kingdom". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  14. ^ "Pieceable Kingdom Presents Layered Meanings at the Museum of Arts and Design | Art and Object". Art & Object. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "New Page". CAMILLE HOFFMAN. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  16. ^ "YALE MFA PAINTING AND PRINTMAKINGGRADUATES 2015 | Garis & Hahn". Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  17. ^ "Exhibition | SEEN | Institute of Sacred Music". ism.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  18. ^ Cummings, Mike (2016-01-21). "Exhibit unites Yale School of Art students, faculty and alumni across generations". YaleNews. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  19. ^ "Queens Museum". Archived from the original on 2018-10-31. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  20. ^ "Queens Museum Announces Artists Participating in Its Upcoming Biennial". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  21. ^ "CMOM Press Release- Children's Museum of Manhattan Announces New Round of Artists-In-Residence for its Popular "Art, Artists & You" Exhibit – Children's Museum of Manhattan". Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  22. ^ "Ineffable Manifestations | Miller Hall Inaugural Art Exhibition | Institute of Sacred Music". ism.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  23. ^ "Gallery Tour || Wave Hill - New York Public Garden and Cultural Center". Wave Hill. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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