http://camillemodesto.com/new-index daily 0.75 2016-11-23 http://camillemodesto.com/work daily 1.0 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1668383834047-LIFWE5DYW0Y36Y0WCH8J/NakakainNaPoKayo.jpg Work - Nakakain Na Po Kayo? (Have You Eaten?) 2021 Two-channel video projection and installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1668383834372-RGISRU1PFD1MFXPSPPLI/NaririnigNiyoPoAko.jpg Work - Naririnig Niyo Po Ba Ako? (Can You Hear Me?) 2020 Eucalyptus oil photo transfer on bristol https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1668383840684-9CLRWEF7FANEIWJ56FC4/MayDumaanNaBagyo1.jpg Work - May Dumaan na Bagyo (There Was A Storm) 2022 Acrylic and oil on canvas, bilao (woven trays), bangkonito 48" x 86" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1668383895282-1H949UWMHGQG0O6W5JJ8/Timbang.png Work - Kailan Ka Babalik? (When Are You Coming Back?) 2021 Suitcase, luggage scale, walis, kawali, clothes, blue raffia, and banig 60” x 24” x 18” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1668383839983-TQH9V92NJRAEF0H4ZJHU/IMG_1905.JPG Work - OverTime 2022 Balikbayan box, bamboo, straw ribbons, corned beef, Vienna sausage, Spam, peanut butter, seventeen years of work, toothpaste, toothbrush, coffee, coffee creamer, popcorn, chocolates, forty hours a week, towels, bedsheets, iodized salt, pepper, garlic powder, thirteen thousand steps a day, souvenir shirts, shoes, 40” x 30” x 30” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1668383844616-32KVXXUZPX6GK54RPISK/IMG_1900.JPG Work - Terms and Conditions 2022 Eucalyptus oil photo transfer on UMAC Express Cargo invoices 11” x 20” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1668385475392-TY8JLUK3BE5283TSB4PR/Kulambo.png Work - Paano Magtiklop ng Kulambo (How to Fold A Mosquito Net) Video, 4:58 min, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1668383834372-RGISRU1PFD1MFXPSPPLI/NaririnigNiyoPoAko.jpg Work - Modesto visualizes the liminal space Agaw-dilim is a body of work that continues Camille Modesto’s exploration of memory, longing, and nostalgia in the migrant experience. This is grounded in her family’s intergenerational migration from the Philippines to the United States, tackling grief and persistence. In the piece, Kailan Ka Babalik?( When Are You Coming Back?), grief manifests in the emotional baggage that weighs more than what one can carry as they leave their family and country. In Naririnig Niyo Po Ba Ako?(Can You Hear Me?) persistence is explored through the migrants' use of FaceTime/Zoom video calls as a way to foster connection and continuing traditions. All throughout, Modesto visualizes the liminal space where these experiences exist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/f87b7081-edc2-449d-9361-af6c6ac67935/IMG_1905.jpg Work This body of work showcase the artist’s interdisciplinary practice with painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Utilizing materials from her childhood and objects from home, Modesto creates installations, and integrates them into paintings, bringing their inherent narratives and encouraging different perspectives. This act of extraction and repurposing redefines the objects as metaphors for migration and assimilation. In the piece, OverTime, Modesto uses a balikbayan box, a box Filipinos use to send gifts to their families back home, and the pabitin, a Filipino party game where children reach for snacks and toys. Combining the two together, she creates a story that encompasses an aspect of migration that is both joyful and melancholic. In the video, Paano Mag Tiklop Ng Kulambo, a figure approaches a mosquito net hanging in an empty room and starts relearning how to fold it. In this poetic gesture, Modesto shows that preserving memory is needed to survive longing and nostalgia. (right) OverTime 2022 Balikbayan box, bamboo, straw ribbons, corned beef, Vienna sausage, Spam, peanut butter, seventeen years of work, toothpaste, toothbrush, coffee, coffee creamer, popcorn, chocolates, forty hours a week, towels, bedsheets, iodized salt, pepper, garlic powder, thirteen thousand steps a day, souvenir shirts, shoes 40” x 30” x 30” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/e3e97129-861d-4f52-b2e4-1dee100c4ad5/IMG_0080.png Work - About the artist Camille Modesto is a Filipino-born interdisciplinary artist. Migration and longing are constant themes in her paintings, sculptures, installations, and videos. She explores her own history of migration together with the colonial and imperial history between the Philippines and the United States to bridge the past and present realities of the two countries. Using photographs and objects from home, she infuses them with collective meaning, bridging the personal to the shared experiences of migration and nostalgia. Modesto received her BFA from the University of North Florida and is an instructor and an MFA candidate in studio art at Florida State University. She was awarded Adelaide D. Wilson Graduate Fellowship Endowment Fund in 2021. She has exhibited at Working Method Gallery, WJB Gallery in Tallahassee, FL, Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, CA, University of Florida Health, CoRK Arts District, University of North Florida Gallery of Art, and Jacksonville Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/303aec4b-f293-474c-b37e-e3eb77f02a93/IMG_9907+copy.JPG Work - Camille Modesto Agaw-dilim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1668383895282-1H949UWMHGQG0O6W5JJ8/Timbang.png Work - Make it stand out Kailan Ka Babalik? (When Are You Coming Back?) 2021, Suitcase, luggage scale, walis, kawali, clothes, blue raffia, and banig, 60 x 24 x 18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/7180e952-e529-4a9b-b217-e9cbf5577005/Kulambo.jpg Work Paano Magtiklop ng Kulambo (How to Fold A Mosquito Net), Video, 4:58 min. 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1479888741046-J7KQQAYUA385NMWXF0NJ/IMG_7699.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1477202252087-8T32FVL3IDHKWO2LEOFU/Landscape+Portrait.jpeg Work - Landscape-Outsider Intaglio with chine colle   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/3cb93190-7190-4915-a106-8111ad0c83a3/IMG_9907+copy.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1624939289272-20DBZTMSKLT5R2HP60A3/IMG_6698.jpg Work - Naririnig Niyo Po Ako? (Can You Hear Me?) Photo transfer with eucalyptus oil on bristol https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1485742813224-CISOIJI4EQ3MAEGYCLOE/Camille_05.jpg Work - Lola and Lolo Oil on banig (woven mat) 24.5” x 32” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1758401331632-1HHV7VQF97ECF5F7Q2U5/IMG_1905.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1480653350278-ZQEUKT4MBTVK2NGOGMDU/Camille_03+%281%29.jpg Work - Weaved Reflection Oil on canvas http://camillemodesto.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-01-22 http://camillemodesto.com/bio daily 0.75 2023-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/580c46b46b8f5b3576a03ebe/1664242520367-BLUJ6WIXNHPERKU9EFK8/webprofile.jpg Bio BIO Camille Modesto is a Filipino-born interdisciplinary artist. Migration and longing are constant themes in her paintings, sculptures, installations, and videos. She explores her history of migration together with the colonial and imperial history between the Philippines and the United States to bridge the past and present realities of the two countries. Using photographs and objects from home, she infuses them with collective meaning, bridging the personal to the shared experiences of migration and nostalgia. Modesto received her BFA from the University of North Florida and her MFA in studio art from Florida State University. She was awarded the Adelaide D. Wilson Graduate Fellowship Endowment Fund in 2021. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Working Method Gallery, and WJB Gallery in Tallahassee, FL, Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, CA, University of Florida Health, CoRK Arts District, University of North Florida Gallery of Art, and Jacksonville Public Library in Jacksonville, FL. http://camillemodesto.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2025-09-12