Camilo Carrión
San Juan, PR, 1973
Biography Details
Painter, printmaker and draftsman. In 1997, he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree of Arts from Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico. Graduated in 2002 with a Master’s Degree of Visual Arts from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. Has worked as an assistant to several artists in Puerto Rico and Mexico, as an illustrator for Mexican magazines, and as a curator and exhibition designer on the Island. He has been a silkscreen, painting, drawing, engraving, art appreciation and commercial art Professor in several institutions in Puerto Rico. In 1993, he founded Taller La Yuma in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he works as a coordinator. Won an award (1994) and an honorable mention (1995) at the Exhibition for Young Artists at Museo de Arte e Historia de San Juan. Received the Arnaldo Roche-Rabel Scholarship from Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico in 1995 and the Lexus Grant in 2009. He has held several solo exhibitions in Puerto Rico and Mexico; and has participated in group shows in Puerto Rico, the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, France and Cuba. He creates art with whatever he has at hand and believe that anything that involves everyday life has the possibility of transforming into something aesthetic in his hands.
Artist Statement
“It has parameters where people can identify things and I think that they could develop or pick up an experience that has nothing to do with me or the project, but with the person who is facing the product. To me that is art. If that happens, I’m getting close to what I want”.
Source: Interview by Aileen BealeTarga for elnuevodía.com (2011)
Formation
Education
2002
- Master of Visual Arts. Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Antigua Academia de San Carlos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
1997
- Bachelor of Arts. Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1992
- Printmaker workshop. Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba
Professional Experience
2013
- Curator and exhibition designer “Junte por el Canal”. NOAA, Fish & Wild Service, MAR Solutions, Culebra, Puerto Rico
2008- present
- Professor of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking and Commercial Art. University High School, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2006-present
- Assistant to Dr. Lowell Fiet. “Mas Taller” Project, offering Mask Workshops to children, Primer Foro Social de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico; Festival del Juguete No Bélico, Hatillo, Puerto Rico; Escuela Ecológica de Vieques, Vieques, Puerto Rico; Festival de Claridad, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2007
- Drawing and Painting Professor. Escuela de Bellas Artes, Cayey Municipality, Cayey, Puerto Rico
2006
- Printmaking Professor. Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004
- Assistant to artist Rosa Irigoyen. First Edition of the Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, América Latina y el Caribe, Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002-2005
- Professor of Drawing, Printmaking, Painting and Art Appreciation.
- Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, San Germán Campus, Puerto Rico
2001
- Assistant to artist Felipe Eherengberg. Necaxa, Colonia Portales, Mexico City, Mexico
- Illustrator. Revista de Literatura Negra, Biombo Negro, Números #10 y #11, Necaxa, Colonia Portales, Mexico City, Mexico,
2000
- Illustrator. Revista cibernética Toda Mujer, Mexico City, Mexico
- Silkscreen Professor. Programa de Extensión, Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Graphic Arts Department Workshop Assistant. Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1993
- Founder and Coordinator. Taller La Yuma, Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1992
- Workshop Assistant to artist Dennis Mario Rivera. Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2011
- Resistencia, Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico
2007
- Mitologías Fantásticas, Galerías Prinardi, Hotel Normandie, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2003
- Sapos, Culebras y Lagartos, Galería del Taller La Yuma, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002
- Un poco de lo que hay y un poco de lo que falta, Colegio de Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2001
- Taller La Yuma, Colonia Nativitas, Mexico City, Mexico
1998
- El Humor de la Tinta, Museo Casa León Trotsky, Coyoacán, Mexico
Group Shows
2012
- Viajeros, Laboratorio 124, Metepec, Mexico
2011
- Calaca Press, Expressions Graphics in Oak Park, Illinois, United States
- Casa de los Tres Mundos, Granada, Nicaragua
- Lauderhill Arts Center, Lauderhill, Florida, United States
2010
- 8va. Trienal Mundial de la Estampa en Pequeño Formato, Chamalières, Auvergne, France
2009
- Beca Lexus Para Artistas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Arte interdisciplinario: investigación video, instalación y performance, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus, Cayey, Puerto Rico
2008
- Adquisiciones, Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2007
- Voces del Caribe, Colectivo de artistas de Galerías Prinardi, West Palm Beach, Miami, Florida, United States
- Persistencia en el Grabado Puertorriqueño, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2005
- VI Certamen Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2000
- V Trienal Mundial de la Estampa en Pequeño Formato, Chamalières, Auvergne, France
1998
- Ex- Convento de los 7 Príncipes Casa de la Cultura de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
1997
- ECOS, Centro Histórico, Mexico City, Mexico
- Reflexiones sobre lo Humano y la Barbarie, Santa Fe, Bogotá, Colombia
- XVII Feria Internacional del Libro Infantil y Juvenil, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
- Ave Mundi, Morituri Te Salutan, III Festival de la Muerte, ExLibris, Instituto de Cultura de Zacatecas, Mexico
1994
- La Joven Estampa, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
- XI Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Awards, Distinctions and Achievements
2009
- Grant. Beca Lexus Para Artistas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1995
- Scholarship. Beca Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Honorable Mention. V Exposición para Artistas Jóvenes, Museo de Arte e Historia, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1994
- Second Prize. IV Exposición para Artistas Jóvenes, Museo de Arte e Historia, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Collections
- Administración Central de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Chamalières, Auvergne, France
- Liga Latinoamericana de Artistas, Santa Fe, Bogotá, Colombia
- Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México
- Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Casa de los Tres Mundos, Granada, Nicaragua
- Calaca Press, Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Bibliography
Catalogues
Exposición de Dibujos: Un poco de lo que hay y un poco de lo que falta, Colegio de Ingenieros y Agrimensores, Fondo Cultural, 2002.
Newspapers
Barreras, Petra. “Zoológico imaginario y poderoso”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 2 de junio de 2007, pp. 85.
González Pérez, Leyra. “Trío de Miradas”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 9 de julio de 2009, pp. 66-67.
Heydrich, Teresita. “Exhibición en la Pared”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 15 de septiembre de 2002, pp. 75.
Vega Calles, María. “Impulso a Tres Artistas”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 22 de mayo de 2008, pp. 65.
Web
Beale Targa, Aileen. “Protagonistas Vieques y Santa Cruz”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 13 de julio de 2011. http://www.elnuevodia.com/protagonistasviequesysantacruz-1014353.html
“Resistencia puerto-cruceña en Vieques”. Diálogo Digital (San Juan, PR), 28 de junio de 2011. http://dialogodigital.com/index.php/Resistencia-puerto-crucena-en-Vieques.html.UycbG7PD8m9