Artist Talk / Place & Practice
Please join us Saturday, May 30 for a conversation with William Camargo, Jackie Castillo & Alexa Ramírez Posada. The talk begins at 11:00 am. Coffee & donuts will be served.
From left: William Camargo, Jackie Castillo & Alexa Ramírez Posada
In conjunction with the closing reception of William Camargo: All That I Can Carry, please join artists William Camargo, Jackie Castillo, and Alexa Ramírez Posada for a special panel discussion exploring the role of place in contemporary artistic practice, Latinx photography, sculpture and installation, the labor of making, and what it means to create work beyond the boundaries of home. Through conversation, the artists will reflect on memory, migration, materiality, and the personal and cultural landscapes that shape their work.
Artist Talk / Place & Practice
Saturday, May 30 at 11:00 AM
5613 San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019
Space is limited to 30 Guests.
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/ The Panelists
William Camargo is a photo-based artist and educator born and raised in Anaheim, California. He is a lecturer in photography at California State University Fullerton. His work focuses on gentrification, police violence, and Chicanx/Latinx histories. His work also comments on the hegemonic history of photography through archival research and performative interventions that live as photographs. Camargo has held residencies at the Latinx Project at NYU, Light Work, TILT Institute in Philadelphia, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Penumbra Foundation in NYC, Aurora Photo Center + Herron, and satis.FACTORY Casa in Costa Rica.
Camargo’s work has been exhibited and published internationally, including The Cheech Center for Chicano Art, The Perez Museum of Art, and Princeton Museum of Art. His work has been published in Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and Le Monde. William’s works are in several public and private collections, including the San Francisco MOMA Library, the Huntington Library, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Harvard Library, LACMA, Broad Art Museum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Jackie Castillo’s practice moves between photography, sculpture, and installation to examine how the built environment shapes lived experience, particularly for those whose labor sustains it but whose presence often goes unrecognized. Working with film photographs of suburban and urban landscapes alongside materials drawn from those same sites, Castillo allows fragments of place to reappear in altered forms in her work. These elements are rarely presented as whole, instead, they remain partial, interrupted, and rearranged, reflecting how spaces that appear stable and familiar can produce quiet forms of dislocation, tension, and estrangement. In this way, the work attends to what persists beneath the surface: histories, gestures, and forms of labor that shape the landscape but are not fully seen.
Her work resides in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art permanent collection, she received the 2025 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture, and the 2025 LA County Department of Arts and Culture Public Art Apprenticeship. Her solo exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2025) and As-Is Gallery (2021, 2023).
Alexa Ramírez Posada is a practicing artist and curator born in Mexico City, raised in Chicago, now based in Los Angeles. Her work is research-based and informed by Queer x immigrant x Chicanx/Latinx history, media, and theory. She utilizes printmaking, multimedia, and archive-based methods to process the effects of violent border nations, displacement, and ensuing nostalgia. Posada is a Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial alum at LACMA and curates as an extension of her art practice.
Posada graduated from Pomona College with a BA in Studio Art. She has exhibited with spaces like The California Museum, The Craft Contemporary, LAND, SMC Barrett Gallery, The Hammer and El Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. She has curated in spaces like Irvine Fine Arts Center, Filter Photo gallery, Los Angeles Community College, Los Angeles City Hall, Altura Los Angeles and SDSU art gallery. In 2024, Posada joined the LA-based 3B Collective where she continues her art and curatorial practices.
/ About the Exhibition
All That I Can Carry brings together several interconnected series developed across Camargo’s practice, including new works created during his time in San José, Costa Rica where he served as the inaugural artist-in-residence at satis.FACTORY Casa de Arte, a month-long residency program supported by HSC&A.
Working in the tradition of conceptual photography, artist and educator William Camargo explores how gentrification, systemic racism, and the erasure of Chicanx and Latine communities shape cities and the lives of those who inhabit them. Through photography, installation, and community archiving, he constructs counter-narratives that center the experiences of Brown communities and bring overlooked histories into public view. Camargo is especially known for inventive works that challenge entrenched power structures while blending conceptual photographic strategies with a sharp sense of humor and political bravado.
All That I Can Carry marks an important continuation of the artist’s evolving practice while reflecting the transnational connections fostered through the HSC&A / satis.FACTORY residency program.
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Featured Artwork /
01: William Camargo, Body Intervention #2, 2025, archival inkjet print, 24 x 30 inches
