satis.FACTORY / Artist-in-Residence William Camargo
HSC&A / satis.FACTORY announces
Artist-in-Residence / William Camargo
After thoughtful consideration, we are proud to announce Chicanx lens-based artist and educator William Camargo as the selected artist for the 2025 satis.FACTORY Casa Artist Residency, co-sponsored by HSC&A.
Camargo will join us in San José, Costa Rica this August to live, create, and engage with the community at satis.FACTORY Casa. His work, rooted in archival research and performative interventions, explores the imperial and colonial histories of photography while celebrating brownness and challenging visual narratives around Latine identity.
William Camargo, All That I Can Carry #1, Archival Inkjet Print, 2020
William Camargo, We Gunna Have to Move Out Soon Fam!, Archival Inkjet Print, 2019
/ About The Artist
William Camargo received a BFA in Creative Photography from California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA in 2014 and an MFA in Studio Art from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA in 2020. He has acted as a lecturer in photography at distinguished institutions including University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA; University of California in San Diego, La Jolla, CA and has served as an Adjunct Professor at California State University, Fullerton, CA. In addition, the artist has held residencies at the Latinx Project at NYU, Light Work in Syracuse, NY, TILT Institute in Philadelphia, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Penumbra Foundation in NYC, and most recently, Aurora Photo Center in Indianapolis.
Camargo’s works and books are held in several public and private collections, including SMOMA Library, Huntington Library, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Harvard Library, National Gallery of Art, MSU Broad Art Museum, and LACMA. His work has been exhibited at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, the Perez Museum of Art, Luisotti Gallery in Los Angeles, Princeton University Art Gallery, among others. His first monograph, Origins & Displacements: William Camargo, published by For the Birds Trapped in Airports, will be available later this year.
William Camargo’s photographs are more than ‘a little brown interference’ on the Chicanx photography canon; they are glimpses into the quotidian with traces of ancestral reclamations that are unapologetically celebratory of brownness, simultaneously honoring and questioning the everyday reality of the Latine communities north of the México/United States border.
— Erika Hirugami, Juror
William Carmargo, Point Towards The Colonizer Charles IV And Some Tourist in Mexico City or This Is Just A Conceptual Photograph, Archival Inkjet Print, 2024
We extend our deepest thanks to every artist who applied and shared your work, your voice, and your vision. Your applications reflected the breadth and brilliance of artistic practices thriving in Los Angeles and beyond.
And finally, a heartfelt thank you to our esteemed jurors Erika Hirugami and Elena Ketelsen González for their time, insight, and care in reviewing this inaugural round of submissions.
Stay tuned for behind-the-scenes updates this August as Camargo takes residency at satis.FACTORY Casa.
/ About The Program
Taking place from August 4 – September 1, 2025, the residency is designed to foster meaningful cultural exchange between two vibrant art communities. We provide the selected artist with a supportive space to play, produce, research, explore, and exhibit work-in-progress while connecting with the broader art community.
Residents will exhibit or present work under their preferred format: exhibition, pop-up, publication, happening, performance, workshop, community gathering, talk or lecture.
William Camargo, I Build An Aztec/Mexica and or Brown Pyramid After Duane Michals, Archival Inkjet Print, 2024
