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=Camille Hoffman= Camille Hoffman is a painter and mixed media installation artist, living and working in New York, NY. For over a decade, 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 earning her BFA in Community Arts and Painting from California College of the Arts in 2009. She received her MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2015, and was a recipient of the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for excellence in painting and a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for research in Spain.

Art
Camille Hoffman's art can be defined as a mixed-media meditation on Manifest Destiny and its representation in the romantic American landscape. Through her work, she reflects on the enclosed meanings around light, nature, the frontier, borders, race, gender and power in the 19th century American landscape paintings. She uses materials from her everyday life, such as holiday-themed tablecloths, discarded medical records, nature calendars, plastic bags and paint, to make imaginary landscapes that are grounded in accumulation, personal narrative and historical critique. Her paintings and installations are layered geographies, in which those of cultural objects are chromatically blended into complex wholes. 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 interweaves image with refuse so that the seamless yet textured transcultural contradictions are revealed. Her scraps of materials take on new life by disrupting visual perception. They become a vehicle of spiritual agency and territorial reclamation for the artist among the pressures of political and economic globalization in the Anthropocene.

Hoffman has been the recipient of numerous honors, including the a National Endowment for the Arts scholarship, and the Van Lier Fellowship from the Museum of Arts and Design.

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

Solo Exhibitions
2005. Subway, Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

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 26th, 2019)

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

2018. Pieceable Kingdom, Fellow Focus, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

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

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

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

2016. New Genealogies, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

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

2018. Art, Artists & You, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY

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

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

Awards
2007. Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, Study in Valencia, Spain

2008. Community Student Fellow, California College of the Arts

2009. National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship

2014. Schickle-Collingwood Prize, Yale University School of Art

2015. Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting

2015 Yale University John A. Carrafiell Scholarship

2015 Yale University School of Art Editor's Choice

2015 New American Paintings, No. 116, Northeast Issue

2016. Nomination for Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant

2017. Van Lier Fellowship, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY