Artist:  Camilo Rojas
Title: Los Sordos del Rio Hudson (The Deaf People of the Hudson River)
Medium: Video
Year: 2008

Camilo Rojas was born in Venezuela. He studied sculpture, graphic design and printmaking. In 1982 he moved with to New York where he earned a Masters degree in photography at Pratt Institute. In 2007 he was a Fulbright Scholar to Venezuela. Camilo began showing his work in 1971 and it has been in the most important museums in Venezuela. His work represented Venezuela in the XI Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe. His art books were exhibited in a traveling exhibit in museums in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In 1985 he received 3rd prize in the 7th European Biannual Salon of Photography. In 1988 Rojas directed and edited the videodisk “Interaction of Color by Joseph Albers” exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Berlin. He began teaching printmaking in 1973 and has been the Communications and Media Arts chair at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie since 1992, where he implemented the television program “Learning in Progress”. Rojas continues to exhibit his photography, videos, drawings and installations nationally and internationally.