Camila Salinas
b. 2004
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Education
2023-2027
Rhode Island School of Design (BFA in Painting)
Exhibitions
2025
Si Fuéramos un Jardín, Memorial Hall, Providence, RI
A Vessel For Color, Color Lab Picture Window Gallery, Providence, RI
A Vessel For ___, Aunty’s House, Providence, RI
2024
Winter, Visual Arts Guild of Frisco, Frisco, TX
HERStory Exhibition, Rhonda Shimes Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
RISD EFS Student Exhibition, Waterman Building, Providence, RI
Crème de la Crème Juried Exhibition, Frisco Discovery Center, Frisco, TX
Painting Sophomore Exhibition, Memorial Hall, Providence RI
2023
Teen Renaissance, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Young American Talent Juried Exhibition, Booker T Washington HS, Dallas, TX
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards: A Selection of Works from 2022, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Artrageous Juried Exhibition, Frisco Discovery Center, Frisco, TX
VASE Gold Seal Exhibition, TAEA Fall Conference, Allen, TX
2022
VASE Gold Seal Exhibition, Arlington ISD Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Arlington, TX
VASE Gold Seal Exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Young American Talent Juried Exhibition, Booker T Washington HS, Dallas, TX
Awards
2024
Emerging Artist of the Year, Visual Arts Guild of Frisco
Best in Show, Crème de la Crème Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Guild of Frisco, Frisco, TX
2023
Finalist, The Future Generation, The Portrait Society of America
Best in Show, Artrageous, Visual Arts Guild of Frisco
1st Place, Painting, Artrageous, Visual Arts Guild of Frisco
Honorable Mention, Youngarts
Gold Seal, TAEA Visual Art Scholastic Event (VASE)
Gold Key (x6), Painting, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Silver Key (x2), Painting, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Honorable Mention Portfolio, Painting, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Second Place, Painting, Young American Talent
2022
Merit Winner, Youngarts
Gold Medal (x3), Painting, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Silver Medal, Painting, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Gold Key (x4), Painting, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Silver Key (x1), Painting, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Gold Seal (x2), TAEA Visual Art Scholastic Event (VASE)
2021
Finalist, New York Time’s Coming of Age Contest
Publications
2025
Interviewed for K Magazine:
https://www.kmagazine.org/post/learn-the-rules-to-break-them-behind-the-niche-with-camila-salinas
Interviewed for Artnet’s Article:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tiktok-ban-artists-speak-out-2599369
2024
Featured work in Brown University’s SOMOS Spring 2024 Magazine
Interviewed and Featured Creator in YouTube’s Hispanic Heritage Month Creator Campaign:
Featured in Girl’s Life 30 under 30 Lineup:
https://www.girlslife.com/life/get-inspired/43174/gl-30-under-30
Interviewed for Artnet’s Article:
2023-2021
Featured work in book, Coming of Age in 2020: Teenagers on the Year that Changed Everything
Featured work in New York Times article, Coming of Age: Teens on a Year That Changed Everything, digitally and in print:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/learning/teens-pandemic-art.html
Featured in In The Know’s article:
https://www.intheknow.com/archive/ap-art-portfolio-tiktok-trend.html