William Camargo
Lecturer in Photography
UCSD, Pasadena City College, Cal State Fullerton
williamcamphoto@gmail.com
Sections:
Education
Teaching & Mentorship
Service Activities
Awards
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Curatorial Experience
Collections
Print Publications
Bibliography
Visiting Artist Lectures
Lectures, Presentations & Workshops
EDUCATION
2020 MFA(Studio Art), Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2014 BFA(Creative Photography), California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
2010 Professional Photography Certificate, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
TEACHING
2023 Lecturer in Photography, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
PHOTO 002: Digital Photography (Spring 2023)
PHOTO 001: Beginning Film Photography (Fall 2023)
2022- Adjunct Professor, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Art 338C: Beginning Digital Photography (Fall 2022)
Art 338C: Beginning Digital Photography (Spring 2023)
Art 338C: Beginning Digital Photography (Spring 2023)
Art 338A: Beginning Film Photography (Fall 2023)
Art 338C: Beginning Film Photography (Spring 2024)
2021- Lecturer in Photography, University of California in San Diego, La Jolla, CA
VIS 164: Photographic Strategies (Fall 2021)
VIS 60: Intro To Digital Photography (Winter 2022)
VIS 164: Photographic Strategies (Winter 2022)
VIS 165A: The Photographic Print (Fall 2022)
VIS 9: Digital Photo for Non-Majors (Spring 2023)
VIS 167: Social Engagement & Photography (Spring 2023)
2020- 2021 Teaching Artist, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Multi-Media Classes(Summer 2020)
Poster Workshop in w/Day Laborers Network for BLM Protest (Summer 2020)
Multi-Media Classes( Fall 2020)
Multi-Media Classes( Winter 2021)
2020-2019 Teaching Artist Fellow, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Museum Education Classes on Exhibitions (Year Long 2020-2019)
2020-2018 Teaching Assistant to Ken Gonzalez-Day
Art 145 SC: Introduction to Black and White Darkroom Photography (Fall 2018)
Art 145 SC: Introduction to Black and White Darkroom Photography (Spring 2019)
Art 146 SC: Intermediate and Advanced Black and White Photography(Fall 2019)
Art 193 SC: Advanced Senior Project in Art (Spring 2020)
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
2024 Deir Grief Guest Juror in Collaboration with Nadine Isabelle, Poetics of Counter-Archives.
2023 8th Annual Fundraiser Limited Edition Print, Los Angeles Center for Photography
2023 The Latinx Project Virtual Fundraiser, New York, NY
Member of Community Schools Board at Sycamore Junior High, Anaheim, CA
Advisory Board at Santa Ana College's Photography Program, Santa Ana, CA
Latinx Lab at Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
2022 Filter Photo Print Fundraiser, Chicago, IL
2022-2019 Commissioner of Culture and Heritage, Anaheim, CA
2021 Open Share, Free Headshots, Art Share L.A, Los Angeles, CA
Artist in Focus Fundraiser
2017-2012 Advisory Committee: Transfer Advisor, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
AWARDS
2024 International Award Fellowship 2024 given by Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, PA
2023 J.E.D.I Award given by the Los Angeles Center for Photography
Individual Artist Fellowship given by the California Arts Council
Penumbra Artist in Resident
2022 Emerging Artist Leader given by OC Arts Foundation
PGB/TILT Artist in Residence
Center for Photography at Woodstock Artist in Residence
Lightwork Artist in Residence
2021 Aperture Runner-up Portfolio Prize
Silver List
2020 Next Step Award Finalist
J. Sonneman Photography Award given by Claremont Graduate University
Teaching Artist Fellowship given by Armory Center for the Arts
2018 Friedman Grant Award given by Claremont Graduate University
2017 Otis College Summer Residence
Chicago Artist Coalition HATCH Artist in Residence
Project Art Teaching Artist Residence
ACRE Artist in Residence
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 William Camargo in Three Acts, College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA
2022 Ojala Nos Vean/Hope They See Us, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA
Origins & Displacements, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA
2021 Negotiated Frontiers, Latinx Project, New York, NY (online)
2020 Origins & Displacement Vol 1&2, Grand Central Art Center & Muzeo, Santa Ana &
Anaheim, CA
2017 We Fed Them Cactus, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Mud Kin, Roski Mateo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Xican-a.o.x Body, The Cheech Center for Chicano Art, Riverside, CA
Mexicali Bienniel: Land of Milk & Honey, The Cheech Center for Chicano Art, Riverside,CA
You Belong Here: Place, People and Purpose in Latinx Photography, Michael C. Carlos
Museum, Atlanta, GA
You Belong Here: Place, People and Purpose in Latinx Photography, Art On Hulfish, Princeton, NJ
2022 Of Objects and Shadows, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY
Entre Fotos y Cuadernos, Entre Cosas y Recuerdos, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, NY
2021 Absence/Presence: Latinx and Latin American Artist in Dialogue, Another Space, NYC, NY
Ambientes: Places After Time, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Intersections, Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (online)
Ask The Dusk, Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles, CA
A Trace Is Not A Map, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2019 Message From the People, School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York City, NY
Efemira, Blue Roof Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Glamfa 2019, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2018 Nine Moments for Now, Cooper Gallery for African and African American Art, Cambridge, MA
Duality, Mexican Center for Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, NY
Here Till' Sunday, East Gallery, Claremont, CA
The Strange Fields of This City, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
Kinetic Energy, Zhou B Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Intimate Encounters, Blanc Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Standards Variance, Public Access, Chicago, IL
Chicago Home Theater, Albany Park Home, Chicago, IL
The Subject is Chicago:People, Places & Possibilities, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Invisible; Contemporary Minds of the Progressive, SAC Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
Future Now/Futuro Ahora, Loisaida Center, New York City, NY
CURATORIAL
2024 Reencuentros: Seeing You Again, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA (upcoming)
COLLECTIONS
2023 Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Begovich Gallery, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA (book acquisition)
S.F MOMA Library, San Francisco, CA (book acquisition)
Harvard Library, Cambridge, MA (book acquisition)
2022 Alta Med Foundation Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA (book acquisition)
Claremont Colleges Libary, Claremont, CA (book acquisition)
Armand Paul Family Collection, New York City, NY (book acquisition)
Texas State Collection, San Marcos, TX (book acquisition)
Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada (book acquisition)
Sojourner Truth Libary, CUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY (book acquisition)
Center for Photography Woodstock, Kingston, NY (book acquisition)
Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
2021 Begovich Gallery, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
MONOGRAPHS & PRINT PUBLICATIONS
2024 Origins & Displacements: Making Sense of Place, Histories & Possibilities, For the Birds Trapped in Airports. (Upcoming)
2022 We Been Here, Seaton Street Press, 250 issues w 50 Box Set Special Edition
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Geraldo Cadava, "Unearthing the History of Anaheim," The New Yorker, August 17 (online)
Staff, "Creative Photography and Experimental Media Alumni Awarded Prestigious 2023 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship," CSUF News, August 14 (online)
3B Collective, Devon Tsuno, Patrisse Cullors, and William Camargo, "Now is not the time to be scared. It is time to consider an L. A free of the freeways," Los Angeles Times, May 16 (in print)
Virginie Kippelen, "Review: Ambitious Carlos Museum photo exhibit reveals Latinx yearning to belong," Arts ATL, October 4 (online)
Staff, "Latinx Lab Students Uncover Structural Racism Through Personal Storytelling," CSUF News, July 14 (online)
2021 Julie Pretsfelder "' In Negotiated Frontiers' Artist William Camargo Centers Communities of Color's Untold Histories," Remezcla, May 3 (online)
Staff "Q&A w/William Camargo: Origins and Displacements," The Heavy Collective, September 9 (online)
Andy Pham & Callum Beaney, "Running from Reality: Artistic Concept, Content, and Social Context in Photography," c4journal, April 23 (online)
Emily Stewart, "2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner Up: William Camargo," Aperture Magazine, May 14 (online)
Kim Beil "Archive and Place: William Camargo interviewed by Kim Beil, "Bomb Magazine, March 26 (online)
2020 Eve Recinos " Photographs Place Orange County’s Racist History in High Relief," Hyperallergic, October 27 (online)
Janica Michelle Martinez Torres, "William Camargo’s Lens Brings Focus to Obscured Histories in Orange County," PBS KCET, November 3 (online)
Vera Castaneda, " How Anaheim artist William Camargo plays with the city's history and presents realities," The Daily Pilot, June 10 (online & in print)
Vera Castaneda, "3 art spaces collaborate on storefront exhibits featuring artist William Camargo," October 2020
Sarah Rafael Garcia " Rethinking 'Rasquachismo' in the OC's Arts Community," Voice of OC, February 12 (online)
2015 Lyanne Alfaro " Anaheim Isn't the Happiest Place on Earth," Business Insider, September 8(online)
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2024 USC Roski School of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA(forthcoming
2023 Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Fullerton Community College, Fullerton, CA
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
College of the Canyons, Valencia, NY
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
University of Houston, Houston, TX
2022 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island(class visit)
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
2021 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Cal State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
Art Center College of Art & Design, Pasadena, CA
2020 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Begovich Gallery, Fullerton, CA
2019 University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
2023 The Latinx Lab's Social Justice & Storytelling Institute Summer Program as a model for 'Study Here'," California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
The Latinx Lab's Social Justice & Storytelling Institute Summer Program, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Open Studios w/William Camargo, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY
2022 Make your own family photo album w/ William Camargo, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY
We Been Here w/ William Camargo, Genesis Baez and Lindsay Buchman, Presented by Seaton St. Press, New York Art Bookfair, New York, NY
2021 Zora J Murff and William Camargo in Conversation, Baxter St. Camera Club, New York, NY
Archives, History and Place, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL
Conversation w/ curator Marissa Del Toro, The Latinx Project at NYU, New York, NY
Radicalizing Success: Decolonizing & Decapitalizing Contemporary Definitions Around Success, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
Contemporary Latinx Photography w/ Elizabeth Ferrer, Adeline Lulo & Dalina Perdomo, The Latinx Project at NYU, New York, NY
2020 Conversations with the Artist, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cornerstore Podcast w/ Kevin Coval, Chicago, IL
Chop it Up w/ Mario Ybarra Jr, Slanguage Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Your Friendly Neighborhood Archive, Latitude Chicago, Chicago, IL