Camila Palomino is a curator, researcher, and writer from/based in Queens, NY. Her research is invested in aesthetic and political relationships between urban infrastructures and memory.
Camila is currently curatorial assistant at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and co-editor of the fifth issue of Viscose Journal, "Retail".
She was the 2021-2022 Curator in Residence at Abrons Art Center, and the 2022 In Practice Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter. She has previously held curatorial positions and contributed research to exhibitions at the 58th Carnegie International, The Drawing Center, MoMA PS1, and The Whitney Museum of American Art. She was a curatorial consultant at Amie Gross Architects on a project that acquired and commissioned artworks by Queens-based artists for new affordable housing buildings in the borough.
Camila has also been a visiting lecturer in The Photography Program at Bard College. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
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 Natasha Matteson, Christine Nyce, and 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)
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.
Moderator and co-presenter 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.
“High Flash: Coumba Samba” in Mousse Magazine 86.
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, 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.