Join the Department of Art for an artist talk in Ruffin Hall Room 320 with Christian Camacho whose exhibition "The Caterpillar Set" opens in the Ruffin Gallery on October 29th!
Christian Camacho (Estado de Mexico, 1985). Painting MA, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Visual Arts BA from ENPEG [National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking] ‘La Esmeralda’ of the National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico. His work has been shown in Mexico, Europe, the United States of America, and in South America in collaboration with institutions such as Museo Experimental El Eco, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil as well as at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College in London, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, The Phoenix Art Museum and Museo Jumex in Mexico City. He has also been awarded grants from FONCA (National Endowment for the Arts, Mexico), and Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, where he designed and implemented education and public programs between 2014 and 2018. As part of his practice, Christian Camacho has also developed several formative initiatives –courses, seminars, workshops and readings– in collaboration with institutions and spaces such as Museo Tamayo, Museo Jumex, Instituto Alumnos, the International Symposium of Contemporary Art Theory PAC-SITAC in Mexico City, ESPAC, Colectivo Neter, Obrera Centro and Biquini Wax EPS among others. He is currently Professor at the Art Department of the University of Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico.