LAURA CAMILA MEDINA // CV

Born 1995, Bogotá, Colombia
Based in Cleveland, OH.

EDUCATION
2024 MFA in Painting & Printmaking, Yale University
2018 BFA in Painting, Pacific Northwest College of Art, magna cum laude

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Duo exhibition with Cecilia Vargas Muñoz, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO (forthcoming)
2024 Tale Spinner with Kacey Slone, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX 
2024 Entre Dos Palmas with Angélica Maria Millán Lozano, Fuller Rosen, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Paisajes conocidos, en lugares tan extraños, SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, NYC
2023 Mi Reflejo, Nationale, Portland, OR
2022 Mira Mira, Mirror Mirror, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR
2021 Unmapped, Stelo Arts, Porland, OR
2020 Loopholes, Fuller Rosen Gallery, Portland, OR 
2020 Recordar es Construir, Open Signal, Portland, OR 
2018 Flying, RACC Night Lights, Portland, OR2018 Busco en mis memorias, B10, Portland, OR
2017 Soñando: aventuras en el tiempo, Composition Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 Cuando la gente suspende el agua, Commons, Portland, OR
2017 documenting pieces of a fragmented history, Nat Turner Project, Portland, OR

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2024 Garden Magic, OVERLAP, Newport, RI
2024 They Stole the Sweet Away, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
2024 …and the dogs were silent, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2024 Surface Trouble, Yossi Milo, NYC, NY
2024 and the forms which linger/humming in our ears, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven
2023 Second Thoughts, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT 
2023 eMOTION, ECOCA, New Haven, CT
2023 Une Palabra de Lucha (curated by Diana Cuartas and Marcelo Fontana), Stelo, Portland, OR
2022 Blanket Statement, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2022 Raíces, Compère Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Portals, Nationale, Portland, OR
2021 What We Tend to Grows, Small Axe Gallery, Oregon City, OR
2021 Myths and Rituals, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2021 Visions of the Future, Laboratory, Spokane, OR 
2020 Across Today’s Tomorrow, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2020 Pink Noise V, Livestream on Glitch
2020 Perception, Open Signal, Portland, OR 
2020 Felt Deeply, Gallery 157, Portland, OR 
2019 Pink Noise IV, Holocene, Portland, OR
2019 Reed Arts Week, Reed College, Portland, OR
2019 UNLIMITED, PLACE, Portland, OR
2019 La Lucha, Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, OR
2019 Call it what you want, pt.2, Oakland, CA 
2019 Future Prairie Variety Show, Portland, OR
2019 There’s No Place Like Home, Elisabeth Jones Art Center, Portland, OR
2018 The Immigrant Experience, Blackfish, Portland, OR
2018 Utopian Visions Art Fair, Portland, OR2018 PNCA Thesis Exhibition, PNCA, Portland, OR
2018 Tiny Projects For The Page, Tiny Thumb Gallery, PNCA, Portland, OR2018 OV Library, OV Project Space, Portland, OR
2018 Crosscurrents, AICAD Juried Exhibition, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
2017 DUO-LOGUE, UNA gallery, Portland, OR2017 Triumph/Adversity, Gallery 157, PNCA, Portland, OR
2017 Plat-Forms, PLANETA, New York, NY2017 Rolas in PDX: Engendradxs, Williamson Knight Gallery (Holding Contemporary), Portland, OR
2017 Window Waiting: a discordant harmony, CCAC, Portland, OR2017 Resistance, PNCA, Portland, OR

HONORS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024 Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship at the Cleveland Institute of Art, AICAD
2024 H. Lee Hirsche Memorial Prize - Dean’s Merit, Yale School of Art, Yale University
2023 Dean’s Travel Grant, Yale School of Art, Yale University 
2022 Studio Fellowship, CCAM, Yale University
2022 Howardena Pindell Scholarship, Yale School of Art, Yale University
2022 Artist Residency as Maracuya con Leche, Caldera Arts
2022 Individual Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission
2021 Make Learn Build Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council
2021 Emerging Artist Residency, Centrum 
2021 Artist in Residence, ACRE
2020 Re:Imagine Sustainability Grant, NW Film Center & Portland Art Museum
2020 Support Beam Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council
2020 BIPOC Writers + Artists Residency, Maracuya con Leche, IPRC 
2020 Future Prairie Digital Residency 
2020 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission
2019 New Media Fellowship, Open Signal 
2019 Artist in Residence, The Living School of Art
2019 El Saguaro y La Paloma Juried Trip, Signal Fire2018 Artist in Residence, Make Think Code
2017 Studio Arts Merit Scholarship, Pacific Northwest College of Art2016 HSF Scholar, Hispanic Heritage Fund
2015 Rose City Scholarship, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2015 Columbia Scholarship, Pacific Northwest College of Art

COLLECTIONS
Jiménez - Colón Collection, Ponce, Puerto Rico
HRY Collection, New York, NY
Portable Works Collection, RACC Portland Public Art

ARTIST TALKS & LECTURES 
2024 Visiting Artist, Virtual Production Class, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2024 Artist Talk with Kacey Slone, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX 
2023 Artist Talk, Nationale, Portland, OR 
2023 Artist Talk, Mi Reflejo, Nationale, Portland, OR
2022 Visiting Critic: MFA Studio Practice, Portland, OR
2021 Artist Talk, Small Axe Gallery, Portland, OR
2020 Recordar es Construir Artist Talk, Open Signal, virtual
2020 Artist Talk, Henpeck Collective, virtual
2020 Artist Talk, Future Prairie, virtual
2018 Maracuya con Leche Artist Talk, Art + Feminism Hackathon, PNCA, Portland, OR

PUBLIC ART
2022 Portable Works Collection, RACC, Portland, OR 
2022 Mural for Zine Library, IPRC, Portland, OR
2021 Together, Public art commissioned by LSA, Portland, OR
2020 Imagine:Imagina, Mural in SE Portland with Angela Saenz & the IPRC, Portland Street Art Alliance
2020 El Cambio Está en Camino, Expression Against Oppression, Portland, OR
2020 Consuming a past self, Portable Works Collection, RACC Portland Public Art

SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS 
2023 Clare Gemima, “7 Booths from SPRING/BREAK”, FAD Magazine, Sept 11
2023 Emily Wilson, “Four Art Galleries to Check Out in Portland, OR”, Hyperallergic, Aug 28
2022 Laurel McLaughlin, “Deconstructive Acts—from Oregon to Connecticut”, Variable West
2022 Buckman Journal 008: Deluxe, June 23
2020 Kendall Jacobs, “Interview”, Osseous Matter, Dec 3 
2020 Laurel McLaughlin, “Devin Harclerode and Laura Camila Medina: Loopholes”, this is tomorrow, Sept 16
2020 Shannon M Lieberman, “Accounts to follow: Imagining the possible”, Oregon Arts Watch, July 16
2020 Recordar es Construir, published by Fuller Rosen Gallery
2019 Joni Renee Whitworth, “Memory Palace with Laura Camila Medina”, Future Prairie Radio
2018 Maracuya con Leche, collaboration with Angela Saenz, self published

RELATED EXPERIENCE
2024 Professor in Foundation and Visual Arts, Cleveland Institute of Art 
2024 TA Basic Painting, Yale University 
2023 TA Principles of Animation, Yale University 
2023 Apprenticeship with master ceramicist Cecilia Vargas Muñoz 
2022 Student Representative for Painting & Printmaking, Yale University 
2022 Temporary Expert, CCAM, Yale University
2022 Studio Assistant, Marie Watt Studio, Portland, OR (since 2021)
2022 Visiting Artist: MFA Studio Practice critique, Portland State University
2021 Studio Manager, Anna Joyce Designs, Portland, OR (since 2018)
2021 Visiting Artist: Digital Tools Class, Portland State University
2020 Visiting Artist: Professional Development Class, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2020 TA Letterpress, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2020 CE Pre-College Printmaking Instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2020 CE smARTworks Instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2019 CE Youth Animation Instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2019 Video Production Fellow, Make Think Code
2019 Animator, Portland Meet Portland
2019 TA Printstallation, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2019 TA Intaglio, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2018 TA Intaglio and Relief, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2018 CE Youth Program TA, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2018 Mentor for Latinx Leaders Club, Hosford Middle School
2018 BFA Gallery Coordinator, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2017 Curatorial Internship, Center for Contemporary Art & Culture
2015 Exhibitions Assistant, Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

REPRESENTATION
Nationale, Portland, OR