Camila Palomino is a curator, researcher, and writer from Queens, NY and currently based in Lima, Peru. Her research is invested in aesthetic and political relationships between urban space and memory.
Camila has organized exhibitions and programs at institutions including Abrons Arts Center, Hessel Museum of Art, NTS Radio, and SculptureCenter. She has previously held curatorial and research positions at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, 58th Carnegie International and The Drawing Center. She serves on the board of Dar Jacir for Art and Research.
Her writing and interviews have been published in exhibition catalogs and in periodicals such as Art21, CURA., Mousse, and Topical Cream. In 2023, she was the guest co-editor of the fifth issue of Viscose Journal, “Retail” which focuses on the role of fashion retail within urban spatial politics.
Currently, Camila is working on a long-term writing project with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She is also a resident on NTS Radio where she hosts Saywite.
Camila holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Water like tears, flour like soil curated in conversation with Emily Jacir, featuring Ahmed Al-Aqra, Samer Albarbari and Duncan Campbell, Mohammed Al Hawajri, Aline Baiana, Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez, Mohammed Hadia / Biishoss, Hazem Harb, Shayma Hamad, Emily Jacir, Stéphanie Janaina, Dina Mattar, Dina Mimi, Mohannad Smama with Dirar Kalash and more at ICD Brookfield Place (Dubai, UAE)
Long walk from the F train co-curated with Joshua Lubin-Levy, featuring Willie Birch, Baseera Khan, Girl (Chitra Ganesh and Simone Leigh), Oji Haynes, Yoko Inoue, William Jung, Emily Manwaring, Alan Ruiz, Juan Sánchez, Tuesday Smillie, Ho Tam, Mary Ting, and Lynne Yamamoto at Abrons Arts Center (Lower East Side, NYC)
In Practice: Literally means collapse with Marco Barrera, Violet Dennison, Enrique Garcia, Ignacio Gatica, Cherisse Gray, Allen Hung-Lun Chen, Jessica Kairé, Alan Martín Segal, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Stella Zhong, and Monsieur Zohore at SculptureCenter (Long Island City, Queens)
Return Sale with Christian Hincapié, Emily Jacir, and Rose Salane at Abrons Arts Center (Lower East Side, NYC)
C21OWO with Rose Salane at the Hessel Museum of Art (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
throbbing_quivering_pulsing_beating (co-curated with Christine Nyce, Roman Stark, Candice Strongwater) with selections from the Marieluise Hessel Collection including: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Paul Chan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mona Hatoum, Mwangi Hutter, Milan Knížák, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ernesto Neto, Catherine Opie, Nam June Paik, Arthur Rimbaud, Katy Schimert, Kiki Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, and Germán Venegas at the Hessel Museum of Art (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
The Delson (Jamaica, Queens)
Bubbles (co-curated with Elodie Evers) with Monira Al Qadiri at ACUD Galerie (Berlin, DE)
CICLO DE CINE: SENTIMIENTOS LOCALES Curated with Alejandra Monteverde at Crisis Gallery, Lima, PE February, 2025.
Activations: Memory Textures with Camila Palomino and Alix Vernet Dia Art Foundation hosted at the Chelsea Recreation Center, September 16, 2024.
Mental Wellness Film Workshop with Fox Maxy hosted with Relative Arts, UnionDocs, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, June 2024.
Seminar 10: Reducing Harm (As Prompt, As Practice) with Imani Mason Jordan and Tamara Oyola-Santiago as part of Correction* Seminar Series. Vera List Center for Art and Politics, February 12, 2024. Online.
(with Viscose Journal) Open Session #3: Hosted by Viscose Journal a screening of Harun Farocki's "The Creators of Shopping Worlds". Storefront for Art and Architecture, May 30, 2023. New York, New York.
Seminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with Walter Bosque as part of Correction* Seminar Series. Vera List Center for Art and Politics, February 13, 2023. Online.
Gongoozler: LIC with Canal Street Research Association, as part of In Practice: Literally means collapse. SculptureCenter, July 1, 2022. Long Island City, Queens.
De torpedos y machetes with Ignacio Gatica, Alan Martín Segal, Ivan Navarro and Hueso Records as part of In Practice: Literally means collapse. SculptureCenter, July 18, 2022. Long Island City, Queens.
Co-moderator for Speaker Series: Jasbir K. Puar . Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, November 6, 2020. Online.
Moderator for Speaker Series: Pelin Tan and Thomas Keenan Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, May 1, 2020. Online.
“Nick Relph: Patina of Time” in The Gatherers, edited by Ruba Katrib, exhibition catalog published by MoMA PS1.
“Resistencias Móviles: On Delivery Work in New York City with Los Deliveristas Unidos” in On The Ground Reader, published by Storefront for Art and Architecture.
“High Flash: Coumba Samba” in Mousse Magazine 86.
“In the Studio: Shanzhai Lyric” on Art21.
Viscose Issue 5: Retail Co-editor with Jeppe Ugelvig, co-published with Storefront for Art and Architecture.
“Patterns of Life: On Emily Jacir's 'My America (I am still here)'" in Viscose Issue 05.
“Style and the Art of War: An Oral History by POST VSOP as told to Camila Palomino and Sean Vegezzi.” in Viscose Issue 05.
“In the Studio: Beatrice Olmedo,” on Art21.
“Blessings and Transmutations: An Interview with Fox Maxy,” commissioned by Ruba Katrib, 2023 Editor in Residence, published by Topical Cream.
“Subversives do not teach. They sting,” in Is It Morning for You Yet?: 58th Carnegie International, edited by Sohrab Mohebbi, exhibition catalog published by the Carnegie Museum of Art.
“In the Studio: Cory Arcangel” on Art21.
“In Practice: Literally means collapse.” Exhibition catalog, published by SculptureCenter.
Return Sale at Abrons Arts Center. Exhibition brochure.
“Rose Salane” in Cura.37 After Language/Post Society. Reprinted in Cura.38 The Generational Issue 2022.
C21OWO Exhibition catalog, edited by Camila Palomino and Rose Salane.
“Blue Complex: Breathwork, Image Work, and the Aesthetic Strategies of Mindful Policing.” Master’s Thesis, Center for Curatorial Studies Bard. Available on request.