Camilo Rojas born in Caracas, Venezuela where he started his art career at early age. He studied sculpture, graphic design and printmaking at the School of Visual Arts Cristobal Rojas. Camilo began shown his work in 1971 and started teaching printmaking at the School of Visual Arts Julio Arraga in 1973. His work had being selected to be show on the most important museums in Venezuela.
He moved in 1982 with his wife Virginia Lavado to New York and got a BFA in film and animation and MFA in photography at Pratt Institute. Camilos work has been selected to represent Venezuela in the XI Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe (XI Biannual of San Juan of Engraving from Latin-American and Caribbean Countries). San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Juried exhibition) His art books were selected for a traveling exhibition Latin American Book Arts, presented in some museums in United States, Canada and Mexico.
In 1985 his photographs was awarded the third prize in the Seventh European Biannual Salon of Photography exhibited in Pla DAccio Cultural Reus Spain. In 1988 directed and edited the videodisk Interaction of Color by Joseph Albers that was exhibited in the Guggenheim Museum in New York city and Berlin.
After teaching at Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts for several years in 1991 Camilo Rojas became the chair of the Communications and Media Arts program at Dutchess Community College, part of State University of New York system, in Poughkeepsie, where he has implemented an innovative program that included the television program Learning in Progress.
In 2007 he was granted the prestigious Fulbright Scholar to conduct a series of seminars for faculty in Zulia University, in Venezuela. In 2009 was honored with the Chancellors Award in Excellence in Teaching for the State University of New York. Camilo has continued exhibiting his work, photography, video, drawings and installations nationally and internationally. He now has his studio outside New York City.
