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Monica Camin: Uprooted

Monica Camin: Uprooted

SKU: 1007.

Embroidery on fabric, wall-mounted with tacks.

I am an Argentine-born, New Jersey based artist. Through my work I examine my roots as the daughter of German-Jews who escaped the worst years of the holocaust and found refuge in Argentina. In a process of exploring my ancestry, my own individual existence and the effects of a life lived, I use my work to ask questions and find answers. However, like most inquiries about history, identity, and accountability, one response often disrupts another. And much like the aftermath of conflict and the unknown consequences of our own actions, I am left with perpetually settling dust.

Within my artwork I express my experience of cultural hybridity. My paintings, sculptures, and mixed media works record an attempt to reconnect to roots torn from their origins; they explore the space where the deeply personal overlaps with the collective experience; they emerge from the emotional labor of processing how to transform inherited trauma into productive participation. My story illuminates how deeply intertwined our personal histories are with that of world history despite the seemingly impersonal geopolitical landscape.

I have been exhibiting my work across the globe since the late 70s, with solo exhibitions spanning New York City, New Jersey, Florida, and Buenos Aires, and residencies in Oregon in 2017, Buenos Aires in 2015 and San Miguel de Allende, MX in 2000. In 2011, I completed and published a full-color 125 page bilingual memoir titled Mi ninez fue tan pintoresca/My childhood was so colorful. In 2016, I curated my first museum exhibition Neo-Latino: Critical Mass at the Monmouth Museum, NJ. I am one of the Founding Board Members of c3:inititiative, an arts organization based in Portland, OR dedicated to critical inquiry.

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Born: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives/works: Fair Haven, NJ

EXHIBITIONS (* SOLO EXHIBITIONS ^ INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS)
2018-2019
Artspace 88, Keyport, NJ: Neo-Latino: NoWall@All
William Paterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ: For Freedom, 50 State Initiative
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ: NJ Crafts Annual: New Directions in Fiber Art
Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ: Neo:Latino

2018 Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY: Faces (Juror: Jacqueline Towers-Perkins)
Lincoln Cultural Center, Lincoln City, OR: Beyond Words, Traveling Exhibition
Benton County Museum, Philomath, OR: Beyond Words, Traveling Exhibition

2016 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Neo-Latino: Critical Mass
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Exhibition
Human Rights Institute, Kean University, Union, NJ: We Are You Project International

2015 Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ: We Are You Project International
George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University: Art Connections 11, Guest Artist
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show

2014 County College of Morris Visual Arts Gallery, Randolph, NJ: Neo-Latino
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
Fountain Street Gallery, Framingham, MA: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
Drawing Rooms, Bayonne, NJ: Here to There
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Expressions of the Natural World

2013 Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ: Text & Subtext
James Joyce Gallery, Oakland, CA: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
Zufall Health Center, Dover, NJ
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show
*Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, Freehold, NJ: The Way I Lived It

2012 Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Art of Illusion

2011 Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ: NEXUS NJ: The 2011 NJ Juried Art Exhibit (Juror: Dr. Roc?o Aranda-Alvarado, Associate Curator, Museo del Barrio)
Arts Council of the Morris Area, Gallery at 14 Maple, Morristown, NJ: Remembrance of Things Past
George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University: Art Connections 7

2010 Broadfoot & Broadfoot Gallery, New York, NY

2009 Perth Amboy Gallery Center for the Arts, Perth Amboy, NJ
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Frank Hyder, Artist)
Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ

2008 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Creighton Michael, Artist, Visiting Professor of Art at Hunter College)

2007 Art4business Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Bruce Waldman, Printmaker and Illustrator)
Mary Lou Zeek Gallery, Salem OR: 100 Artists – Shelters

2006 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Artist)

2005 *Elliot Museum, Martin County, FL: A Season Opening Exhibitions: Elizabeth Austin & Monica S. Camin
James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ: Ser Latino/a en New Jersey\

2004 *Perth Amboy Gallery Center for the Arts, Perth Amboy, NJ: Series of Letters
Bergen Museum, Bergen, NJ: Transcultural New Jersey: Four Visions
Sulli Studios/Black Box, Asbury Park, NJ: “A Woman’s View A View of a Woman,” Outside the Box
Perth Amboy Gallery Center for the Arts, Perth Amboy, NJ: Celebrating the Culture and Heritage of the Andes
2003 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Judith K. Brodsky, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University)

2002 Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY: Transcultural New Jersey: The Visual Imaginary of Latinos/as in New Jersey (Curator: Isabel Nazario, Director of Center for Latino Arts and Culture, Rutgers University)
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ: Transcultural New Jersey: The Visual Imaginary of Latinos/as in New Jersey (Curator: Isabel Nazario, Director of Center for Latino Arts and Culture, Rutgers University)
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Gary Kuehn, Chairman of Dept. of Visual Arts, Mason-Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University)
*Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, NJ
Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, NY

2001 *Zabazu Community Theatre, Bound Brook, NJ: Benefit Project

2000 Carnegie Center at Summit Bancorp Headquarters, Princeton, NJ

1999-98 The National Art Club, New York, NY: Nudes

1995 Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Marcella Geltman Gallery, New Milford, NJ (Juror: Tracey Bashkoff, Curatorial Assistant of the Guggenheim Museum)

1994 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ (Juror: Robert T. Buck, Director of The Brooklyn Museum)

1993 Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Marcella Geltman Gallery, New Milford, NJ

1992 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, New York, NY: 97th Annual Open Exhibition
Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Marcella Geltman Gallery, New Milford, NJ

1988 ^Sivori Museum of Art, Bs. As., Argentina: XXXV Municipal Showroom of Fine Arts: Manuel Belgrano
*^San Mart?n Cultural Center, Bs. As., Argentina
*Jadite Galleries, New York, NY

1989 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, New York, NY: 94th Annual Open Exhibition

1988 *Pindar Gallery, New York, NY

1987 Pen & Brush, New York, NY
International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC: Americanos: Art of the Americas

1978 ^Ashkelon Cultural Center, Ashkelon, Israel

COLLECTIONS
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, Freehold, NJ
Center for Latino Culture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Various private collections nationally and abroad

CURATORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
Ongoing c3:initiative, Portland, OR: Board of Directors
2016 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Neo-Latino: Critical Mass

PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS & BROADCASTS
2016 “A night in the Art Gallery,” NJ Discover Live TV. Oct. 17, 2016.
2015 “A ‘Second Wave’ of Neo-Latino Art hits new CCM Visual Arts Gallery” by Tara Dervla. www.old.ragazine.cc.
2012 “Artist turns her memoirs into paintings and sculpture” by Alan Richman. New Jersey Jewish News, NJ, Oct. 9, 2012.
2011 Camin, Monica S. Mi ni?ez fue tan pintoresca/My childhood was so colorful. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Self-published, 2011.
2010 Studio Visit Magazine. Summer 2010 edition.
2005 “Exhibit explores a culture that’s a study in diversity” by Julia M. Scott, photos by Vic Yepello, Sunday Star-Ledger, NJ, Oct. 23, 2005.
2002 “Artists Speaking Out on Aesthetics, Multicultural Issues and the Politics of Representation” series producer William Sanchez. New Jersey Network Public Broadcasting aired May 30 and June 1, 2002.
“La Imaginer?a de Artistas Latinos en NJ,” Vida Hoy, NY, March 8, 2002.
2001 “Art Gallery Exhibits Latino Work, Tapestry,” by Theresa Poulson. The Daily Targum, NY, Sept. 28, 2001.
1992 “Mencion de Honor Monica S. Camin,” Clarin Newspaper, Bs. As., Argentina.
1991 “Anuario Latino Americano de Las Artes Plasticas,” Correo Editorial, Bs. As., Argentina: Vol 10.
1990 “Noticias de la Semana,” La Prensa Newspaper, Bs. As., Argentina, June 10, 1990, p5.
1989 “Muestras Dis?miles,” by Albino D. Videla, La Prensa Newspaper, Bs. As., Argentina, Oct. 29, 1989, p7.
1988 “Dust-to-Dust: The Sculpture of Monica Camin,” by Miles Ungar, Manhattan Arts, NY, June-July 1988, p28.

LECTURES & INVOLVEMENT
2009 Etched in Memory: Legacy Planning for Artists Conference (participant)
Institute for Women & Art, Rutgers University, March 20, 2009
2008 Arts Plan NJ (participant), New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2004 Artists Round Table (participant), Kean University, Union, NJ
2002 Transcultural New Jersey: Diverse Artists Shaping Culture and Communities (participant)
Conference presented by Rutgers Office for Intercultural Initiatives, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, The Center for Latino Arts and Culture, The Asian American Cultural Center, The Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Mason Gross School of the Arts, The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience, New Jersey Network Public Broadcasting Station, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Death as Memory (speaker)
Artists Lecture Series, The Center for Latino Arts & Culture and Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

AWARDS
2005 Visual Arts Award, “A Woman’s View A View of a Woman,” Outside the Box, Sulli Studios/Black Box, Asbury Park, NJ
2003 Juried Art Show Award, Monmouth County Arts Council, Monmouth Museum, NJ
1992 Art Club Award, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, New York, NY
1989 Antonio Devoto Honorable Mention, Hoy en El Arte Galleria, Bs. As., Argentina
1987 Talix Award, Pen & Brush, New York, NY
Best Piece Award, Art Student’s League, New York, NY
1986 Sidney Simon Sculpture Scholarship, Art Student’s League, New York, NY

RESIDENCIES
2017 Camp Colton Art Center, Colton, Oregon
2015 Proyecto?acePIRAR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

EDUCATION
1987 The New School, Chaim Gross Sculpture, New York, NY
1983-87 Art Student’s League, New York, NY
1968-71 Manuel Belgrano Art University, Bs. As., Argentina
1963-67 Paula A. Sarmiento Art Academy, Olivos, Argentina

 

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