Hosted at Tube Factory artspace, 2024 Aurora resident William Camargo will give a talk about his art practice, and the role that residencies play in his work. Camargo uses photography, installation, public interventions, and archives to address gentrification, police violence, and Chicanx/Latinx histories. During the two weeks of his residency in Indianapolis, Camargo will print work from his series, A Little Brown Interference, at Herron School of Art and Design. You can read more about the series and the artist’s residency plans here.

William Camargo is a photo-based artist and educator born and raised in Anaheim, California. He is a photography lecturer at the University of California San Diego and Cal State Fullerton. He attained his MFA from Claremont Graduate University, a BFA from Cal State Fullerton, and an AA at Fullerton Community College. William is the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives, an archive Instagram page that elevates communities of color through family photos. William has had residencies at the Latinx Project at NYU, Light Work in Syracuse, NY,  TILT Institute for Contemporary Image in Philadelphia, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, and Penumbra Foundation, NYC. William’s work has been exhibited and published internationally, including at The Cheech Center for Chicano Art, Frost Museum of Art, and Princeton Museum of Art. His works are in held several public and private collections, including the Huntington Library, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Los Angeles Museum of Art.

Free and open to the public