Artist's Bio

My name is Camila Martorell Michel, and I am a Spanish-Mexican immigrant. Born in Mexico City in 2001, I moved to the US in October of 2002 with my sister and my parents. 

I grew up in Miami, Florida but I was always connected to my heritage, my Mexican roots and my Spanish lineage.

I never lost touch with my culture, my family who still lives in Mexico would come visit often, allowing me to grow up as a Mexican without being in Mexico, even though for Mexicans I am too American and for Americans I am too Mexican. 

My artwork deals with my own definition of what it means to be a woman, using myself as muse and subject, whilst struggling with the ways in which my self-exploitation in my artwork will lead to a difference in the way I will be perceived. By using my own body and shape as the subject, I want to challenge viewers to look beyond what the body represents societally and socially. 

A lot of complications arise when using yourself as a subject, one being a struggle to remain truthful to the reference which is distorted always by my sense of self as I draw and paint.