Camille Hoffman Explained

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. Hoffman has worked as an arts educator and community organizer in Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, New Haven, Brooklyn, and Queens.

Early life and education

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. 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.[4] [5]

Art

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.

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. 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.[4] [9]

Exhibits

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

Solo exhibitions

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

2009. Summer Spectacular, Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

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

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

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

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

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[6] [13] [14]

Group exhibitions

2007. A Class Act, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA

2007. Rest in Peace, Rise in Peace, South Gallery, Oakland, CA

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

2008. MASIVAMENTE, Espai Cultural Biblioteca Azorín, Valencia, Spain

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

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

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

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

2015. Arresting Patterns, Artspace, New Haven, CT

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

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

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

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

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

External links

References

  1. Web site: Camille Hoffman. False Flag. en-US. 2019-03-25.
  2. Web site: Fellow Focus: Camille Hoffman: Pieceable Kingdom. madmuseum.org. en. 2019-03-25.
  3. Web site: Camille Hoffman Wave Hill - New York Public Garden and Cultural Center. Wave Hill. en. 2019-03-27.
  4. Web site: Camille Hoffman to Present New Mixed-Media Landscapes That Critique Colonial Histories. BWW News Desk. BroadwayWorld.com. en. 2019-03-25.
  5. Web site: Queens International 2018: Volumes. www.queensmuseum.org. 2019-03-25.
  6. Web site: Critiquing Colonial Histories Camille Hoffman's New Mixed-Media Landscapes at Museum of Arts and Design BLOUIN ARTINFO. www.blouinartinfo.com. 2019-03-25.
  7. Web site: Camille Hoffman; Art, Cultural Identity and Polly Pockets. 2017-07-07. Young Hot & Modern. en. 2019-03-25.
  8. Web site: Camille Hoffman. Matter of Hand. en-US. 2019-03-25.
  9. Web site: Queens International 2018: Volumes. www.queensmuseum.org. 2019-03-25.
  10. Web site: Camille Hoffman. QueenSpace. en-US. 2019-03-25.
  11. Web site: Queens Museum. en-US. 2019-03-25.
  12. Web site: Rockabye My Bedrock Bones False Flag Artsy. www.artsy.net. en. 2019-03-25.
  13. Camille Hoffman: Pieceable Kingdom. The New Yorker. 2019-03-25.
  14. Web site: Pieceable Kingdom Presents Layered Meanings at the Museum of Arts and Design Art and Object. Art & Object. en. 2019-03-25.
  15. Web site: New Page. CAMILLE HOFFMAN. en-US. 2019-03-25.
  16. Web site: YALE MFA PAINTING AND PRINTMAKINGGRADUATES 2015 Garis & Hahn. en-US. 2019-03-25.
  17. Web site: Exhibition SEEN Institute of Sacred Music. ism.yale.edu. 2019-03-25.
  18. Web site: Exhibit unites Yale School of Art students, faculty and alumni across generations. Cummings. Mike. 2016-01-21. YaleNews. en. 2019-03-25.
  19. Web site: Queens Museum. en-US. 2019-03-25. 2018-10-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20181031052939/https://queensmuseum.org/2017/09/19311. dead.
  20. Web site: Queens Museum Announces Artists Participating in Its Upcoming Biennial. www.artforum.com. en-US. 2019-03-25.
  21. Web site: 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. en-US. 2019-03-25.
  22. Web site: Ineffable Manifestations Miller Hall Inaugural Art Exhibition Institute of Sacred Music. ism.yale.edu. 2019-03-25.
  23. Web site: Gallery Tour Wave Hill - New York Public Garden and Cultural Center. Wave Hill. en. 2019-03-25.

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