December Members’ Critique

With Jamil Hellu

Wednesday, December 16, 2020
6:00 - 8:00 PM PST

In December, SF Camerawork presented our monthly members’ critique online. Artist and educator Jamil Hellu lead the group and provided direct feedback on members’ work and photographic practice.

ABOUT JAMIL HELLU
Jamil Hellu is a visual artist whose work is a hybrid of self-portraiture and political narrative. Working primarily in photography, his projects deal with issues of identity relating to race, queer sexuality, and gender. Hellu's work has been discussed in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Artforum, and VICE. It was included in the latest revision of “Art & Queer Culture,” published by Phaidon in 2019 and in the most recent “Bay Area Now” exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

As an active member in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community, Hellu serves as an advisory board member for Recology’s Artist-in-Residence Program and has been a juror on numerous committees and organizations, including Headlands Center for the Arts and Kala Art Institute. He is the recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission’s Individual Artist Grant (2020), Zellerbach Family Foundation's Community Arts Grant (2020), Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship Award (2018), the Kala Art Institute Fellowship, AIR Program at Recology San Francisco, Graduate Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Cité Internationale des Arts residency in Paris.

Hellu holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Art Practice from Stanford University and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. He teaches photography in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University.

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