Monica S. Camin
About the Artist
Monica S. Camin is a multidisciplinary artist based in New Jersey and Texas who finds inspiration in childhood memories, ancestral stories, and social progress. Throughout her work she examines her roots as the daughter of German Jews who escaped the worst years of the Holocaust and explores the experiences of both being raised by migrants in Latin America and becoming a migrant herself after moving first to Israel and then to the United States in adulthood.
While investigating the commonalities among different types of migration and the ways her identity was shaped by these experiences, her work also explores her ancestral stories as a means to connect to the roots that were torn from their origins and to pass on the narratives of a living history whose survivors are aging.
Monica believes that migration between countries, regardless of reason, results in an uprooting of culture and of our understanding of the world, becoming the catalyst for seeking out and reinventing the stories that make us whole. With exhibitions spanning New York City, New Jersey, Florida, and Buenos Aires, Monica has been showing her work both solo and in group shows since the late 1970s.
She attended artist residencies in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 2000 and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2015. In 2011 she published a bilingual memoir titled Mi niñez fue tan pintoresca / My childhood was so colorful and curated her first museum exhibition in 2016.
Monica is a member of the Neo-Latino collective, a group of artists dedicated to promoting the contemporary Latino experience in the United States. She is also a founding board member of Stelo Arts, a non-profit art space in Portland, Oregon, committed to process-based exploration, and an active member of the Latin American Women Artists of Houston (LAWAH).
☞ View Full CV
Lives/works: Houston, TX, Fair Haven, NJ, and Portland, OR
EXHIBITIONS (* solo ^ international)
2025 The Health Museum Houston, TX Healing Arts Program - Smithsonian
2025 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: The Bias Inside Us - Smithsonian
2023 Stelo Arts & Culture, Portland, OR: Neo Latino, Una Palabra de Lucha
2022 *Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Perpetually Settling Dust: Art as Memoir
2021 Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX: Withstand: Latinx Art During Times of Conflict
*Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Cultural Intersection: The Artwork of Monica S.
2020 The Neo- Latino Collective, Bronx, New York: Neo Latino Experience: Then, Now and the Unforeseeable
Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ: View Points 2020 (Juror: Virginia Butera, PhD)
The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, Freehold, NJ: Artists from Within: Creations in Quarantine
Pollak Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ: Access and Opportunity, Diversity, and Inclusion
2019 Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY: New York Latin American Art Triennial 2019, Progressive Transition (Curator:
Alexis Mendoza)
Theresa A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ: Expresiones Latinx II
(Curator: Virginia Butera, PhD)
LeDor VaDor - Guevara 447, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Unveiling Ceremony//”Music” New Jersey City University Visual Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ: Neo-Latino, Place: The Locus of Memory (Curator: Virginia Butera, PhD)
Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA: Social Justice in the Misinformation Age (Juror: Susan Crile)
The Gallery Space, Rahway, NJ: Neo-Latino, Place: The Locus of Memory/Lugar: El Locus de la Memoria
(Curator: Virginia Butera, PhD)
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ: NJ Crafts Annual—New Directions: Fiber Art
Starlight Gallery, Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ: Visiones Latinx (Curator: Virginia Butera, PhD)
2018 William Paterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ: Speak Your Peace [For Freedom, 50 State Initiative]
Artspace 88, Keyport, NJ: Neo-Latino: NoWall@All
The Artists Loft Association, Stamford, CT: 5th Annual Tri-State Juried Exhibition: Relishing Restraint
Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Faces (Juror: Jacqueline Towers-Perkins)
Lincoln Cultural Center, Lincoln City, OR: Beyond Words, Traveling Exhibition
Benton County Museum, Philomath, OR: Beyond Words, Traveling Exhibition
2016 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Neo-Latino: Critical Mass
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Exhibition
Human Rights Institute, Kean University, Union, NJ: We Are You Project International
2015 Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ: We Are You Project International
George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University: Art Connections 11, Guest Artist
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: 36th Annual Juried Show
2014 County College of Morris Visual Arts Gallery, Randolph, NJ: Neo-Latino
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
Fountain Street Gallery, Framingham, MA: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
Drawing Rooms, Bayonne, NJ: There to Here
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Expressions of the Natural World
2013 Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ: Text & Subtext
James Joyce Gallery, Oakland, CA: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
Zufall Health Center, Dover, NJ
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: 34th Annual Juried Show
*Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, Freehold, NJ: The Way I Lived It
2012 Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ: We Are You Project Traveling Exhibition
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Art of Illusion
2011 Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ: NEXUS NJ: The 2011 NJ Juried Art Exhibit (Juror: Dr. Rocío Aranda-Alvarado,
Associate Curator, Museo del Barrio)
The Carmin Cargo Control Family, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ: Patchwork from Folk Art to Fine Art
Arts Council of the Morris Area, Gallery at 14 Maple, Morristown, NJ: Remembrance of Things Past
George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University: Art Connections 7
2010 Broadfoot & Broadfoot Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Perth Amboy Gallery Center for the Arts, Perth Amboy, NJ
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Frank Hyder, Artist)
Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ
2008 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Creighton Michael, Visiting Professor of Art,
Hunter College)
2007 Art4business Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Bruce Waldman, Printmaker and Illustrator)
Mary Lou Zeek Gallery, Salem OR: 100 Artists – Shelters
2006 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Artist)
2005 *Elliot Museum, Martin County, FL: A Season Opening Exhibitions: Elizabeth Austin & Monica S. Camin
James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ: Ser Latino/a En Nueva Jersey
2004 *Perth Amboy Gallery Center for the Arts, Perth Amboy, NJ: Series of Letters
Bergen Museum, Bergen, NJ: Transcultural New Jersey: Four Visions
Sulli Studios/Black Box, Asbury Park, NJ: “A Woman’s View A View of a Woman,” Outside the Box
Perth Amboy Gallery Center for the Arts, Perth Amboy, NJ: Celebrating the Culture and Heritage of the Andes
2003 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Judith K. Brodsky, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers
University
2002 Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY: Transcultural New Jersey: The Visual Imaginary of Latinos/as in New Jersey
(Curator: Isabel Nazario, Director of Center for Latino Arts and Culture, Rutgers University)
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ: Transcultural New Jersey:
The Visual Imaginary of Latinos/as in New Jersey (Curator: Isabel Nazario, Director of Center for Latino Arts
and Culture, Rutgers University)
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Annual Juried Show (Juror: Gary Kuehn, Chairman of Dept. of Visual Arts,
Mason-Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University)
*Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, NJ
Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, NY
2001 *Zabazu Community Theatre, Bound Brook, NJ: Benefit Project
2000 Carnegie Center at Summit Bancorp Headquarters, Princeton, NJ
1999 The National Art Club, New York, NY: Nudes
1995 Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Marcella Geltman Gallery, New Milford, NJ (Juror: Tracey Bashkoff,
Curatorial Assistant of the Guggenheim)
1994 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ (Juror: Robert T. Buck, Director of The Brooklyn Museum)
1993 Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Marcella Geltman Gallery, New Milford, NJ
1992 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, New York, NY: 97th Annual Open Exhibition
Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Marcella Geltman Gallery, New Milford, NJ
1990 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, New York, NY: 97th Annual Open Exhibition
Museo de Artes Plasticas “Eduardo Sivori”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Marcella Geltman Gallery, New Milford, NJ
Teresa Nachman, Gascon 36, Buenos Aires, Argentina: “Sister and Animal Y Madre Tierra”
1989 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, New York, NY: 94th Annual Open Exhibition
Centro Cultural, Gral, San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1988 ^Sivori Museum of Art, Bs. As., Argentina: XXXV Municipal Showroom of Fine Arts: Manuel Belgrano
*^San Martín Cultural Center, Bs. As., Argentina
*Jadite Galleries, New York, NY
*Pindar Gallery, New York, NY
Pen & Brush, New York, NY
1987 International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC: Americanos: Art of the Americas
1978 ^Ashkelon Cultural Center, Ashkelon, Israel
COLLECTIONS
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, Freehold, NJ
Center for Latino Culture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
LeDor VaDor, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Various private collections nationally and abroad
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2016 Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ: Neo-Latino: Critical Mass
PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS & BROADCASTS
“Perpetually Settling Dust: Art as a Memoir,” State Of The Arts NJ PBS, July 2022.
“A night in the Art Gallery,” NJ Discover Live TV. Oct. 17, 2016.
"A ‘Second Wave’ of Neo-Latino Art hits new CCM Visual Arts Gallery” by Tara Dervla. www.old.ragazine.cc., Dec. 2014
“Artist turns her memoirs into paintings and sculpture” by Alan Richman. New Jersey Jewish News, NJ, Oct. 9, 2012.
Camin, Monica S. Mi niñez fue tan pintoresca/My childhood was so colorful. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Self-published 2011.
Studio Visit Magazine. Summer 2010 edition.
“Exhibit explores a culture that’s a study in diversity” by Julia M. Scott, photos by Vic Yepello, Sunday Star-Ledger, NJ,
Oct. 23, 2005.
Artists Speaking Out on Aesthetics, Multicultural Issues and the Politics of Representation” series producer William
Sanchez. New Jersey Network Public Broadcasting aired May 30 and June 1, 2002.
“La Imaginería de Artistas Latinos en NJ,” Vida Hoy, NY, March 8, 2002.
“Art Gallery Exhibits Latino Work, Tapestry,” by Theresa Poulson. The Daily Targum, NY, Sept. 28, 2001.
“Mencion de Honor Monica S. Camin,” Clarin Newspaper, Bs. As., Argentina., 1992
"Anuario Latino Americano de Las Artes Plasticas,” Correo Editorial, Bs. As., Argentina: Vol 10., 1991
“Muestras Disímiles,” by Albino D. Videla, La Prensa Newspaper, Bs. As., Argentina, Oct. 29, 1989, p7.
“Dust-to-Dust: The Sculpture of Monica Camin,” by Miles Ungar, Manhattan Arts, NY, June-July 1988, p28.
LECTURES & INVOLVEMENT
2009 Etched in Memory: Legacy Planning for Artists Conference (participant), Institute for Women & Art, Rutgers
University, March 20, 2009
2008 Arts Plan NJ (participant), New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2004 Artists Round Table (participant), Kean University, Union, NJ
2002 Transcultural New Jersey: Diverse Artists Shaping Culture and Communities (participant)
Conference presented by Rutgers Office for Intercultural Initiatives, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art
Museum, The Center for Latino Arts and Culture, The Asian American Cultural Center, The Paul Robeson
Cultural Center, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Mason Gross School of the Arts, The Institute
on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience, New Jersey Network Public Broadcasting Station, New
Jersey State Council on the Arts Death as Memory (speaker) Artists Lecture Series, The Center for Latino
Arts & Culture and Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
AWARDS
2023 Artistic Leadership Award, Monmouth County Arts Council, Monmouth Museum & State Of NJ, Lincroft, NJ
2005 Visual Arts Award, “A Woman’s View A View of a Woman,” Outside the Box, Sulli Studios/Black Box,
Asbury Park, NJ
2003 Juried Art Show Award, Monmouth County Arts Council, Monmouth Museum, N
1992 Art Club Award, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, New York, NY
1990 Antonio Devoto Honorable Mention, Hoy en El Arte Galleria, Bs. As., Argentina
1988 Talix Award, Pen & Brush, New York, NY
Best Piece Award, Art Student’s League, New York, NY
1986 Sidney Simon Sculpture Scholarship, Art Student’s League, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2017 c3:initiative, Portland, Oregon
2015 Proyecto´acePIRAR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 nstituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS
Neo-Latino Collective National Association of Women Artists, NAWA
Latin American Women Artists of Houston, LAWAH
EDUCATION
1987 The New School, Chaim Gross Sculpture, New York, NY
1983-87 Art Student’s League, New York, NY
1968-71 Manuel Belgrano Art University, Bs. As., Argentina
1963-67 Paula A. Sarmiento Art Academy, Olivos, Argentina
Realised Exibitions
Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium dolor
Artworks viewd
Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium dolor
Visitors per Year
Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium dolor
Highlighted Body of Work
The Way I Lived It
"I have gone through many different stages of life. What remains of each are some memories. Thinking of my past is a selective experience—regarding that which is remembered and the way in which it is remembered. This way of thinking inspired the piece The way I want to remember, wherein I emphasize a determined time with circles and I present myself as a young child. Only later did I realize that I placed myself in the role of the observer."
The Way I Want To Remember, 2000, Oil on Canvas, 68 × 64 inches