Biography 

Oscar Camilo de las Flores (born 1974, Santa Ana, El Salvador)

Oscar Camilo de las Flores is a Salvadorian visual artist based in Mexico and Montreal, Quebec. He holds a bachelor’s degree in fine art with honours from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto (1997). In 2005 he was the recipient of the McDowell Fellowship. Oscar founded the Latino Canadian Cultural Association in 2010 dedicated to fostering and supporting the programming of contemporary visual arts exhibitions and multidisciplinary cultural events. 

Oscar Camilo de las Flores's studio work is paper-based, with drawing and printmaking that reflects on the crimes and survival trauma of war, specifically the Civil War in El Salvador. His work has been showcased in the exhibition[SM1] Covídica (2020) at the Casa de la Cultura Oaxaqueña, Mexico, the collective exhibition Nuestros dioses (2019) at the Museo de Arte Prehispánico Rufiño Tamayo, Mexico, and the solo exhibition Bestia Humana (2018) at the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Mexico.

Nocturnalia

Without date

Etching print 6/40I

Image from Gabriel Santos León collection website, Google Images 2022

Solo exhibitions

Oscar Camilo de las Flores press release solo exhibition Bestia Humana, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, 2018 (in Spanish)

Oscar Camilo de las Flores press release by Lisbeth Mejía Reyes, solo exhibition Bestia Humana, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, 2018 (in Spanish)

Collective exhibitions

Oscar Camilo de las Flores press release, online collective exhibition Covídica, Casa de la Cultura Oaxaqueña, 2020 (in Spanish)

Oscar Camilo de las Flores press release by Idolina Herrera López, collective exhibition Nuestros dioses, Museo de Arte Prehispanico Rufiño, Tamayo, Mexico, 2019 ( in Spanish)

Oscar Camilo de las Flores collective exhibition Manifestations: Dessins choisis par Ed Pien avec Christopher Lori , Roland Sohier , Kim Moodie and Oscar Camilo de las Flores, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, 2002 

Interviews

Oscar Camilo de las Flores interview by Rocío Flores, 2018 (in Spanish)

Presentations

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Published work by Oscar Camilo de las Flores

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Published work about Oscar Camilo de las Flores

Oscar Camilo de las Floresreview by María Luisa de Villa, 2018 (in Spanish) 

Oscar Camilo de las Flores review by Donald Kuspit, 2013

Press release

Oscar Camilo de las Flores press release Tecumseh Arts Festival, Fort York, Toronto, 2002

List of Grants, Awards and Projects

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