CAM COLLINS

b. Chicago, Illinois, 1999. 312-371-3585 camcollins.us

skygrass13@gmail.com

EDUCATION
2013-2017

Chicago High School for the Arts

PRE-PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2013-2017

AP Visual Communication, Jen Thomas & Chris Lin

Studio Painting and Drawing III, Celeste Rapone
Art History and Art History II, Catarina Araujo
Mural Studies, Rodrigo Lara
Photography, Eileen Mueller

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2014 - 2017

CAAP Program at School of the Art Institute

Mixed Materials
Contemporary Studios
Sequential Arts
Figure Studio
Figure Painting
School of the Art Institute ECP 2 Week Residency in Figure Painting Studio
Savannah College of Art and Design Summer Intensive
Scientific Illustration
Acrylic Painting

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2016

Scholastic Awards Silver Key for "The Stranger Book Cover", Body Shop.
Scholastic Awards Honorable Mention
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design $500 Scholarship for Summer Institute

2015

Chiarts Bruce Nauman Award for Sophomore Conceptual Thinking

2014

Scholastic Awards Silver Key for Graphic Design "Jacket Packet"

Scholastic Awards Honorable Mention

EXHIBITIONS
2016

Chiarts Junior Exhibition

Chiarts Juried Show 2016
2016 Illinois High School Art Exhibition, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
Work featured for Day of the Dead Blick Art Materials Show in Chicago
Chicago Public Library Youth Artist Online Exhibitions

2015

Chiarts Juried Show 2015

Chiarts Sophomore Exhibition

2014

Chiarts Juried Show 2014

EETUSOENSVAT Magazine Online Exhibition

2013

Chiarts Juried Show 2013

EXPERIENCE
2016

Cover Illustration done for Chicago High School for the Arts 2016 Yearbook.

ChiArts JUNIOR JAM Art Show Poster Design Winner and participant.
2015

IHSA Journalism Competition Participant for Cartooning and Basic Advertising

ReImagine 24 Participant in Industrial Design (Teamed with Natalie Ayala, Srinidi Gopal,
and Sam Barber Kennedy) Industrial Design category that requires creating an
innovational bench design.
PORTRAIT-A-DAY PROJECT Published in independent Brazilian Art magazine,
EETUSOENSVAT.
ChiArts SOPHOMORE SHOW Poster Design Winner and Participant
Title Card Artist for MoMA/Tate/AIC Artist Video Interview Series
Created Kandinsky Inspired Interactive Installation Booth with Allison Kelly at Art
Institute of Chicago.

2014

VANS Shoe Design Competition Team

Accepted into CAAP program @ SAIC [2014-2017]

2013

Intern for Creative Design at Common Ground Advertising

2012

Shirt Design Winner for Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Fundraiser

PROFICIENT SKILLS/PREFERRED MEDIUMS

DRAWING

Graphite

Chalk Pastel

Oil Pastel

DIGITAL

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

PAINTING

Gouache

Acrylic

Ink

Reading Skills in French

Can Read Hiragana and Katakana characters in Japanese / basic comprehension
Easily adapts to languages and accents
Can Solve Rubiks Cube
Designs T-Shirts