CAMILA LEIVA
Minneapolis, MN
Email: camilalei@gmail.com
Education
2023 M.F.A., University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Master of Science in Education, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
2009 B.A., Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Group Exhibitions
2025 (Forthcoming) Long Distance // Artist Collaborations, ACRE Projects Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL. August 8 - September 21, 2025
2023 Lineage, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2022 Gleaned Fruit, Paul Whitney Larson Art Gallery, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2021 Fresh Works, Regis Center for Art, University of MN, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2019 Que Foerte Minizines Exhibition, Maggies Garden, Harlem, New York
2019 Visualiz-Arte Latinx Artist Exhibit, CLUES, St. Paul, Minnesota
2018 Muxeres Magicas//Magic Womxn, CTUL, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Public Art - Murals Completed
2022 Plant Wisdom Mural, Downtown Red Wing, MN
2021 I Embrace Your Absence, Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN
2020 Ven, Seremos, Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN
2020 Loving Yourself is Revolutionary, YWCA Transitional Housing Program, Saint Paul, MN
2019 Nos quieren cieg@s, pero somos canto y organización, Santiago, Chile
2019 Mural on the Ave, Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis
2014 Amancay Muralista, San Bernardo, Santiago
2014 Cosechando Comunidad, Cerro Navia, Santiago
2013 Mural del Intervencionismo Yanky en Latinoamerica, Santiago, Chile
Awards
2024 Creative Individuals Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
2023 Creative Response Fund, Minneapolis Arts & Cultural Affairs
2022 Creative Support for Individuals Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
2020 Early Career Project Grant, Forecast Public Art
2020 Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
Residencies
2022 ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions), Steuben, Wisconsin
2021 Anderson Center at Tower View, Red Wing, Minnesota
Publications
2023 Brigida - Comic Magazine Made By Women, Issue 15, Santiago, Chile
2021 Scorched Feet/Pies Quemados, Issue 1, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Que Foerte Minizines, Feminist Illustrators from the Americas, Collective and Minizinepress in New York, NY
2018 Sacked: A Super Bowl Comic for the Rest of Us, Saint Paul Federation of Educators, MN
Press
2024 Red Wing Library to host new comics festival Aug. 17, Republican Eagle, Red Wing, MN
2022 Empowering Art: New Murals at YWCA St. Paul’s Transitional Housing Program
https://www.ywcastpaul.org/new-murals-at-ywca-st-paul/
2022 Plant Wisdom Mural brings community groups together, Republican Eagle, Red Wing, MN https://www.republicaneagle.com/news/plant-wisdom-mural-brings-community-groups-together/article_232b9796-0459-11ed-90e7-4b67ad9c83be.html
2021 MIA's Fly Zine Archive: A Library of Counterculture, Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, MN
https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/mia-fly-zine-archive/
Academic Teaching
2023 Teaching Assistant, Zines, Comics and Books, Prof. Jenny Schmid, Art Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Printmaking, Relief, Screen and Digital Processes. Prof. Lila Schull, Art Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2022 Teaching Assistant, Zines Comics and Books, Prof. Corinne Teed, Art Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2021 Teaching Assistant, Theoretical Constructions in Contemporary Art, Prof. Erin Gleeson, Art Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2017 Adjunct Professor, School for International Training (SIT), Santiago, Chile
2015-2017 Adjunct Professor, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile
2014-2017 High School Teacher, Liceo Confederacion Suiza, Santiago, Chile
2010-2012 High School Teacher, Pan American International High School, Queens, New York
2009-2010 High School Teacher, Bronx International High School, Bronx, New York
Workshops & Community Teaching
2025-2017 Arts Educator and Trainer, Tending the Soil, is an alignment of five, power building non-profits and labor organizations representing more than 10,000 Minnesotans led by working class, BIPOC community leaders with a long history of effective and equitable organizing.
2025 Zine Making Workshop, Roosevelt High School, Minneapolis
Arpillera Workshop, Serpentina Arts, Minneapolis
2024 Zine Workshop, Red Wing Public Library
2023 Testimonial Textiles Workshop, YWCA Minneapolis
2020 Veggie Mobile Murals, Grow North, Minneapolis
2020 Transformational Creative Strategies Training, HOPE Community Inc, Minneapolis
2019 Latinx Mural Apprenticeship Program, CLUES, St Paul
Academic Articles
García, O., & Leiva, C. (2014). Theorizing and Enacting Translanguaging for Social Justice. In A. Blackledge, & A. Creese (Eds.), Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy. Educational Linguistics (Vol. 20, pp. 199-216). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7856-6_11
Leiva, C. & Mangual, A. (2012). Desde las entrañas del monstruo: educadores en Nueva York luchando contra el neoliberalismo y el racismo. Docencia, 47, 90-98.
Additional Skills: Spanish, native speaker