Camille solyagua biography

Camille Solyagua | American, 1959 -

Camille Solyagua was born in Denver, Colorado in 1959. She attended the Academy of Art College in San Francisco from 1989-1990. Prior to art school, Solyagua obtained a B.A.

in Spanish Literature from UCSD in 1984 and a M.A. in Spanish Literature from Middlebury College in 1985. Solyagua has been exhibiting her photographs since 1989, and is currently in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.

Solyagua presently lives in San Francisco, California.

Romantic and in utter contradistinction to the world of post-modern spectacles, Solyagua has examined the small wonders in her personal nature cabinet and has fashioned lyrical contemplations of their overlooked and extraordinary beauties - a "bathos of vision," as it were, in which the grandeur of lofty events and things is replaced by a depth of meaning seen in nature's most humble creations.

- from the introduction of "Camille Solyagua Ben