Frederico C芒mara

Art

Assistant Professor of Art
Photography

Email

fagostinocamara@smu.edu

Frederico Câmara is a Brazilian artist whose research practices are informed by his personal experiences of migration and traveling, and by his fascination for nature, science, and sites of knowledge like museums, libraries, and archives. In his work, he revisits the role of the traveling artist and explorer, decolonizing their historical antecedents with a contemporary approach to discovery, questioning the ideas of the familiar and the exotic, and promoting environmental awareness and sustainability.

His research intersects with natural sciences, environmental humanities, visual anthropology, and museum and heritage studies. His research interests include the representations of nature, migration, photography, and travel as research methods, ethnographic methods, collecting and archiving in art, vernacular design, and the preservation of heritage.

His research outputs are in the form of photographic and video installations, artist’s books, drawings, and text. He studied for a Ph.D. in Fine Art at the University of Sydney, Australia; M.A. in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London, UK; and B.F.A. in Fine Art at UFMG Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His work has taken him around the world as a visiting professor at various universities, on research fellowships, artist residencies, and exhibitions. He is also a recipient of various prestigious awards.

Education

Ph.D. Fine Art, The University of Sydney – Sydney, Australia
M.A. Fine Art, University of the Arts London – London, United Kingdom
B.F.A. Printmaking, Federal University of Minas Gerais – Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Recent Work

Conference Presentations

2024

Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2024 – London, UK.
Title: SuperNATIVO* (New Mexico): preserving and interpreting local
and global cultures of vernacular hand-painted commercial signs.

2024

Captivity: Assembling Nature’s Histories. UCLA The Clark Memorial Library – Los Angeles, USA. Title: Views of Paradise: a photographic atlas of the artificial environments of zoological gardens and aquariums in Oceania

2023

Thinking Techne / International Conference. Technische Universität Berlin – Berlin, Germany
. Title: Drawing and Painting with Plants: experimenting with plant-based inks and surfaces in the Amazon

Exhibitions

2020

Campos Interpostos, MAM Rio / Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Research Fellowships and Artistic Residencies

2024

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg – Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) – Delmenhorst, Germany


2022

Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar Award, University of New Mexico / Latin American and Iberian Institute – Albuquerque, USA

Course list

Introduction to Photography
Film Photography
 
Graduate Seminar  

Camara-Frederico-July-2024