Mexico City, Mexico, 1980
Lives and works in Mexico City.
Pia Camil was born in 1980 in Mexico City, where she continues to live and work. Her work has been shown in Mexico, Colombia, France and the U.S. Camil received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and her Master’s of Fine Arts from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. In 2009, she formed El Resplandor, a performance-based band. She has received awards including the European Honors Program, Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy in 2001 and she was nominated for The Paul Hamlyn Award, London in 2008. Camil’s work is in the permanent collection of La Colección Jumex, la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and the Wattis Museum amongst others. Her solo exhibitions include “The little dog laughed” at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, “Entrecortinas: abre, jala, corre” at OMR Gallery, Mexico City, “Espectacular Telón” at Sultana Gallery, Paris, and “Cuadrado Negro” at the Basque museum-center of contemporary art in Spain.
Through her work Pia Camil has shown a proclivity to failure or the decaying associated to the mexican urban landscape, aspects of modernist culture and traces of art history. Her practice has explored the urban ruin – including paintings and photographs of halted projects along Mexico’s highways (highway follies); abandoned billboards that become theatre-like curtains therefore theatricalizing failed capitalist strategies (espectaculares), or the problems and contradictions that arise when engaging with iconic art works (No A trio A or Cuadrado Negro).
2008
Master of Fine Arts, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
2003
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
2022
Organismo Multi Orgásmico, Sultana Galerie, Paris, FR
2021
Nidos y Nudos, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA.
Three works, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona, US.
2020
Velo Revelo, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA.
Ríe ahora, llora después, OMR, Mexico City, MX.
2019
Here Comes the Sun, Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA.
Fade Into Black, Queens Museum, Queens, New York, USA.
Bara, Bara, Bara, Tramway Art Space, Glasgow, UK.
2018
Split Wall, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham , UK.
They, Galerie Sultana, Paris, FR.
Telón de boca, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX.
Divisor Pirata, Performance, DO DISTURB Festival, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR.
Fade into Black, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
2017
Bara, Bara, Bara, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA.
SOLUNA International Music & Arts Festival, Performance, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA.
A Pot For a Latch, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE.
2016
Divisor Pirata, NuMu (nuevo museo de arte contemporáneo), Guatemala.
Here and Now, Museum Ludwig: Home Visit
Pia Camil: A Pot for a Latch, New Museum, New York, USA.
Slats, skins and shop fittings, Blum and Poe, New York, USA.
Lodos presenta una Obra de Teatro, PEEE (Parque experimental El Eco), Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico.
A Pot for a Latch, Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis, California, USA.
2015
Skins, Curated by Justine Ludwig. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
United States of Latin America, Curated by Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra. Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA.
2014
The little dog laughed, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, USA.
Entrecortinas: abre, jala corre, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico.
2013
Espectacular Telón, Sultana Gallery, Paris, France.
Cuadro Negro, part of the program Mutatis Mutandis in Artium, Basque Museum-Center of Contemporary Art. Victoria, Spain.
2010
Lost In You (A Performance That Never Happened), open studio performance, Mexico City, Mexico.
2009
El Resplandor, El 52 (project space and residence program ran by OMR Gallery), Mexico City, Mexico.
2005
Retar a la muerte sosteniendo la respiración bajo el agua (in collaboration with Carlotta Manaigo), Proyectos Monclova, Ciudad de México, México.
2004
Pensando en Ti (Thinking of You), permanent intervention in public parking lot, Mexico City, Mexico.
2003
Cuantos Cuentos Cuentas, Temporary gallery space, Mexico City, Mexico.
2022
Shake Your Body, LAGO/ALGO, Curated by Jérôme Sans Mexico City, MX.
Intervención/Intersección: MASA at Rockefeller Center, Curated by Su Wu, New York, US.
Forms Follow Energy. LAGO/ALGO, Mexico City, MX.
ARS22. Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, FI.
2021
Unending Beginnings, USC Roski Graduate Gallery, Los Angeles, US.
QUINCEAÑERE, 15 Años de DiabloRosso. DiabloRosso, Curated by Pablo Leon de La Barra. Panama, Rep. de Panama. PA.
In Some Form or Fashion. The Momentary, Arkansas, US.
Elementos Vitales. MASA Gallery. Curated by Su Wu. Oaxaca, MX.
Sartor Resartus. Huset for Kunst & Design, Denmark, DK.
Excepciones Normales: Arte Contemporáneo en Mexico, Museo Jumex, Ciudad de Mexico, MX.
2020
Air Out Your Dirty Laundry. Curated by Laura Copelin, Sarah Melendez, Daisy Nam. Ballroom Marfa. Texas, US.
OTRXS MUNDXS, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Tamayo.Curated by Humberto Moro and Magali Arriola. Mexico City, MX.
Protext!, Centro Pecci. Prato, Italy. Curated by Camilla Mozzato e Marta Papini. Entrée dans la ronde, Château de Montbazillac, Dordogne, FR.
2019
Aichi Triennale 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion, curated by Pedro Reyes, Nagoya, Japan.
Portadores de Sentido. Arte Contemporáneo en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, curated by Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.
Lover’s Rainbow, Desert X Biennial, curated by Neville Wakefield, Coachella Valley, CA, USA.
Formes Limites: Pratiques de la céramique et sculptures contemporaines, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France.
2018
The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut, USA.
Women House, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA.
Art Basel Cities, Buenos Aires, AR.
LISTE, with Galerie Sultana, Basel, CH.
2017
Deshechas, duo exhibition with Ofelia Rodriguez, Instituto de Visión, Bogatá, CO.
Womenhouse, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, FR.
Performance!, curated by Bernard Blistène & Marcella Lista, le Tripostal, Lille, FR.
2016
Everyday Reflections in Abstraction, SPACE, Irving, California.
Opening exhibition, Ladera Oeste, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Hausbesuch, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany.
¿Cómo te voy a olvidar?, Perrotin Galerie, Paris, FR.
2015
Frieze Projects 2015, Frieze New York, United States.
Pia Camil, Pablo Helguera, Pedro Reyes, MIMA, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom.
2014
Ir para volver, 12th Biennale of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Arroz Sem Sal, Silvia Cintra Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli.
2013
Draft Urbanism, Biennal of the Americas. Denver, Colorado Curated by Carson Chan.
No A Trio A, “En casa” project a La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Luisa Fuentes Guaza.
Horizontal, La Central gallery. Bogota, Colombia.
2012
Popo de Paris, Sultana Gallery, Paris, France.
Arteba, curated by Pablo León de la Barra, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2011
Solo Projects Art-Rio, International Contemporary Art Fair of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil curated by Pablo León de la Barra and Julieta Gonzalez.
El Grito, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Spain. Curated by Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy and María Inés Rodríguez
Zona Maco Sur, Mexico City, Mexico. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala. Curated by Beatriz Lopez.
2010
El Resplandor performance, Miami Art Basel, Creative Time and Tamayo Museum programming for Ocean Front, Miami, FL, USA.
Sin techo está pelón, curated by Michel Blancsubé. A selection of work from La Colección Jumex.* Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico.
Draw, Museo de la Ciudad de México, An exhibition curated by Erik Foss, Curse Mackey and Miguel Calderón, Mexico City, Mexico.
El Resplandor, Museo Experimental Eco, Mexico City, Mexico.
MACO, Contemporary Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico.
2009
Artbo, La Central, Colombia.
There are false problems…, Proyectos Monclova, Monterrey, Mexico.
Resplandor, El 52 Gallery Space, Mexico City, Mexico.
[sic], OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Names and Places, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
This is not an invitation, it’s a presentation, curated by Pia Camil in collaboration with Stefan Brüggemann, El 52 Gallery Space, Mexico City, Mexico. Curated by Pia Camil and Stefan Brüggemann.
2008
Illumination, an Interval project, Manchester, UK.
Lanzarote, Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK.
Post Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
Woburn Studios, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
Croyances Quotidiennes, Palais Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, France.*
Kate Moss Drawings, Galería de Arte Mexicano, in collaboration with artist Stefan Brüggemann, Mexico City, Mexico. In collaboration with Stefan Brüggemann.
Taenu, TactileBOSCH Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
2007
Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
Eventos Sociales, Mexican Art Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Trace: Recent Works From Slade Post-Graduates, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
Turtle, Woburn Studios, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
2006
Fire and Ice, drawing study, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
MACO Art Fair, Nina Menocal Gallery Stand, Mexico City, Mexico.
Cinco: A Multi-Media Exhibition From Five Contemporary Mexican Artists, Black Book Magazine, New York City, NY, USA.
2005
To Challenge Death by Holding Your Breath Underwater, Proyectos Monclova Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Morir de Amor, MUCA, UNAM (National Autonomous University Museum of Contemporary Art), Mexico City, Mexico.*
2004
El Sueño de la Razón, Collaborative drawing with Andrea Crews for Localismos, Mexico City, Mexico.
San Valentín Señorial, audio installation, Hotel Señorial, Mexico City, Mexico.
2003
Painting show, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Fresh (Wall drawings), Carr Haus Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
2001
YIA (Young International Artists), Centro Culturale Rialto Santo Ambrogio, Rome, Italy.
Winter and Spring Exhibitions, Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy.
2015
Monteverdi Tuscany, Castiglioncello de Trinoro, Italy.
Sin techo esta pelon, Coleccion Jumex exhibition catalogue, 2010.
Creencias Cotidianas, Exhibition catalogue, 2008.
Morir de Amor, Exhibition catalogue, 2005.
2008
Nominated for The Paul Hamlyn Award, London.
2001
European Honours Program, Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy.
OMR
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Friday 10.00 – 16.00
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