Camila Giraldo
Camila Giraldo is a New York-based Colombian designer and artist whose work methodology relies on experimenting with scanning, image-sourcing, photography, and design. She is interested in finding unusual ways to create and re-contextualize form, with the hopes of inspiring a new appreciation for the world around us.
In art books she escapes from the constraints of design, and finds her more playful spirit in her work process. Recurring themes in her work include the act of seeing, the passage of time, the beauty in the ordinary, food, decay, and language.
Giraldo was recently awarded the Shannon Michael Cane Award, presented by Printed Matter to emerging book artists. With this grant, she was able to print and self-publish her work for the first time, which she successfully launched at the 2024 New York Art Book Fair.
In art books she escapes from the constraints of design, and finds her more playful spirit in her work process. Recurring themes in her work include the act of seeing, the passage of time, the beauty in the ordinary, food, decay, and language.
Giraldo was recently awarded the Shannon Michael Cane Award, presented by Printed Matter to emerging book artists. With this grant, she was able to print and self-publish her work for the first time, which she successfully launched at the 2024 New York Art Book Fair.
Camila Giraldo, Anatomy of the Raindrop, 2024 © Camila Giraldo
Accordion book of shapes of raindrops traced over the window after rain.
Laser-printed
Open edition
Camila Giraldo, Colors of Nothingness, 2024 © Camila Giraldo
Adapted imagery of molding bread juxtapose with photos of space from NASA’s archives, communicating the fine line between creation and destruction.
Riso-printed
Edition of 60
Camila Giraldo, (Un)framing Vision, 2023 © Camila Giraldo
A photo book of frames within frames that demonstrate the infinite possibilities of careful looking, made by scanning paper frames over library books.
Laser-printed
Edition of 12