Camille Hoffman (b. Chicago, IL) earned an MFA from Yale University (2015), a BFA from California College of the Arts (2009), and was a recipient of the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for excellence in painting from Yale University, a National Endowment for the Arts scholarship, a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for research in Spain, and the Van Lier Fellowship from the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). 

Camille Hoffman's current work is a mixed-media meditation on Manifest Destiny and its representation in the romantic American landscape. Reflecting on the embedded and latent meanings around light, nature, the frontier, borders, race, gender and power in influential American landscape paintings of the 19th century, she uses materials collected from her everyday life, including holiday-themed tablecloths, discarded medical records, nature calendars, plastic bags and paint, to craft imaginary landscapes that are grounded in accumulation, personal narrative and historical critique. Her paintings and installations are layered geographies, in which these fragments of cultural objects are chromatically twisted and blended into complex wholes. Taking inspiration from the Philippine weaving and the Jewish folk traditions of her ancestors, along with traditional landscape painting techniques from her academic training, she interweaves image with refuse in order to reveal seamless yet textured transcultural contradictions. Disrupting visual perception, her scraps of materials take on new life, becoming a vehicle of territorial reclamation and spiritual agency for the artist amid the pressures of economic and political globalization in the anthropocene.

Pamela Cabrera is a Peruvian architect and climate engineer. Cabrera is a senior associate at Transsolar KlimaEngineering. Her work centers on building science and new material assemblies for passive climate control design. She understands the importance of creative thinking and an interdisciplinary approach between art and science, linking architecture to engineering. Her experience as a practicing architect combined with her rigorous studies in energy and building technology well-suits the core goals at Transsolar of low-tech, high comfort design. At Transsolar, she works on projects that can affect human behavior and energy consumption towards healthier and more resilient architectures. 

Her professional experience has alternated between New York and Lima, where she co-ran the studio CE-AD for three years. She is a partner at the Peruvian NGO Construye Identidad, where she contributes with research on vernacular buildings and materials. She has a BArch from The Cooper Union and a Master’s in Design Studies in Energy & Environment from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she received the Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology and Sustainability. Her thesis work on membrane dehumidification received the US Department of Energy Building Technologies ‘ABC’ award for further R&D, and she has presented her work in various conferences and universities including IBPSA and Facades+.

Cabrera's CV is available here.