Bio
Camille Laoang is a Brooklyn based artist whose work reveals a love of color, pattern and non sequitur juxtapositions. Born and raised in suburban Maryland by artist parents, she explored various art forms before choosing visual arts as a teenager. She earned her BFA degree at Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1993, and subsequently moved to New York.
Having worked in oils, watercolor, ballpoint pens and most recently with reflective vinyl and acrylic, her subject matter reflects a life-long interest in what she calls “the unseen forces that underlie our reality.” These are the emotional, psychological and spiritual elements that shape and describe individuals and societies, which in turn create the conditions in the world. She has created various series focusing on different aspects of this over-arching theme, including two distinct, but related, mandala series, which focuses on the importance of being centered internally.
In 2015, she had a residency at Saltonstall Arts Colony in Ithaca, NY where she developed new mandala drawings, created a floor installation out of gravel and collaborated on a series of hand-made books with the other residents.
Ms. Laoang has exhibited her work in internationally in London and Santiago, around the US in Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, and locally in various New York art spaces including BRIC Arts, The Brooklyn Public Library, Micro Museum and Jadite Gallery. In 2020, she had a solo exhibit at Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, NY.
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Solo and two person exhibitions
2020 Mandalas, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY
2018 Mandalas, pop-up exhibit, New York, NY
2014 Bookmarks, Davis Public Library, Bethesda, MD
2014 Bookmarks, Kings Bay Library, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Oils and Watercolors, Carrandi Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Safari Through the Living Room, at Jadite Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Brainstorming, East End Ensemble, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Watercolors, Metro Cinema Gallery Space: London, England
Group Exhibitions
2023 The Big Small Show 2023, Drawing Rooms; Jersey City, NJ
2023 Skeleton Crawl, pop-up exhibition; Brooklyn, NY
2018 online exhibition, Trestle Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
2018 Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself, Cigar Factory; Queens, NY
2017 Hands On Love, The Love Yourself Project, The Living Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
2017 Priority Mail, Ground Floor Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Open (C)all” Registry Exhibition, Gallery at BRIC House; Brooklyn, NY
2015 Secret Architecture of the World, Kasa Ecolety; Santiago, Chile
2014 10th Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
2012 On the Fence, the Dirty Dirty; Brooklyn, NY
2011 Small Works, Z Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
2010 Small Works, Z Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
2009 Inaugural Exhibit, Art Raw Gallery: New York, NY
2008 Opposites Attract, Micro Museum; Brooklyn, NY
2006 Square Foot Show, Art Gotham; New York, NY
2006 Works on Paper, Sally French; Lambertville, NJ
2005 Project Diversity; Are We Having Fun Yet?, Rotunda Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
2005 The 8th Annual Mermaid Exhibition, Coney Island Museum; Brooklyn, NY
2005 12 x 12 Small Works, Gallery 440; Brooklyn, NY
2004 The 7th Annual Mermaid Exhibition, The Williamsburg Art and Historical Society;
Brooklyn, NY
2004 The Water Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition; Brooklyn, NY
2004 Solo Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition; Brooklyn, NY
2003 15 x 15, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art; Baltimore, MD
2001 Object Image Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
1999 Gallery Cafe; London, England
1998 Feral Art Group Show, Feral Art Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
1997 Halpert Biennial; Appalachian State University; Boone, NC
1989 Group Exhibition for Printing, Corcoran Gallery; Washington, DC
Publications
2021 In the Zero of Sky; poems by Tamra Plotnick; front cover
2021 Tule Review 2021; art and literary magazine
2017 A5 Magazine July 2017
2017 Average Art Magazine; July 2017
2017 Stone Canoe; Issue #11
2016 Geometric Mandalas, catalog; Blurb
2009 New Angular, catalog; self-published
2005 Oils & Watercolors, catalog; self-published
Residency
2015 Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts; Ithaca, NY
Education
1993 Maryland Institute, College of Art; BFA; Baltimore, MD