Camille Wong
b. 1995, Oakland, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles
w.camille827@gmail.com
Education
2023 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, Media Arts
2017 BA, University of California, Santa Barbara, Art, Environmental Studies
Solo Exhibitions
Golden Mountain, UCLA Design Media Arts Graduate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022
Animate Animal Animacy, AMAX Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Premium Quality, Glass Box Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017
Group Exhibitions
Fizzing Portals, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA, 2023, Curated by Pranay Reddy
Town Hall, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2023
AMID TEARS, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2022
Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Jurors: Rita Gonzales, Olivia Cha, and Kerstin Erdmann), 2020
Satan’s Food Court, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
Let them eat cake, too, Blueroof Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
Wholly Coast!, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
2018 Student Juried Show, Boone Gallery, Pasadena City College, Awardee (Juror: Constance Mallinson), Pasadena, CA, 2018
2017 Undergraduate Exhibition, Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017
Iron, Gender, and Power, College of Creative Studies Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016
Intermediate, Glass Box Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016
Open Studios, Arts 2235, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016
Bloom, Youth Interactive Creative Studio, Santa Barbara, 2015
From the Atrium: Summer Sessions, Atrium, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014
Youth Fellows, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2013
Residencies
2024 The Lab Program: Art-Research and Mobility Network, Mexico City, 2024
2021 This Will Take Time Oakland BIPOC Residency, Oakland, CA
Honors, Scholarships, & Awards
Clifton Webb Scholarship of the Arts, UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture, 2022-2023
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division, 2021-2022
Awardee, Student Juried Show, Pasadena City College, 2018
Faculty Award of Distinction, University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Art, 2017
Dean’s List, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017
Teaching Experience
2023 Teaching Assistant, DESMA 22: Form, taught by Paul Esposito, University of California, Los Angeles
Teaching Assistant, DESMA 160-1: Design Research and Environmental Justice in Los Angeles, taught by Peter Lunenfeld, University of California, Los Angeles
2022 Teaching Assistant, DESMA 104: Design Futures, taught by Peter Lunenfeld, University of California, Los Angeles
Press
“Meet Camille Wong,” VoyageLA. August 2020
Selected Publications as Author
2020 “Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama— Which will the Twitter algorithm choose?” Adolescent
“COVID-19: It took a pandemic for galleries to go digital",” Adolescent
2019 “Elite Institutions and the Need for Cultural Inclusion," Matai Agency
“A lesson from LACMA’s “Outliers and the American Vanguard,” Adolescent
“Artist David Alekhuogie describes American struggle using gravity,” Adolescent
“How K-pop reflects the globalization of this generation,” Cult Club
2018 “How One Day at a Time Breaks the Monotony of Commercially Successful Art,” Murze Mag
“The Evolution of Museums: Susana Smith Bautista on Why Museums Need to Communicate,” Cult Club
“TFW Nina Chanel Abney’s paintings reflect your newsfeed,” Cult Club
“The Mourning of Youth: Masculinity and Mass Shooters,” Cult Club
“Cameron Rowland confronts modern systems of oppression,” Cult Club
“Hilma af Klint: Rewriting Art Herstory,” Cult Club
"Marguerite Humeau’s Birth Canal,” Cult Club
“Bodys Isek Kingelez’s City Dreams,” Cult Club
“B. Wurtz is the god for your unwanted Tupperware containers,” Cult Club