All Ages, ADA Accessible
“When Mojaves say the word for tears, we return to our word for river, as if our river were flowing from our eyes. A great weeping, is how you might translate it. Or, a river of grief.…We carry the river, its body of water, in our body.” — Excerpt from The First Water is The Body by Natalie Diaz
This exhibition, Our river flowing from our eyes, brings together the vision of artists and friends Camille Hoffman and Gyun Hur in an immersive meditation on landscape. Hoffman and Hur honor water and body as powerful elements in personal and collective grief and imagination. Their practices of site-specific installation and local collaboration explore the interwoven relationship between humans and nature toward repair, both physical and emotional. Inspired by the poem The First Water is The Body by Mojave American poet and educator Natalie Diaz, Hoffman and Hur draw upon their respective diasporic narratives to critically interrogate and reimagine the meaning of the American dream — a construct formed on the premise of violent displacement and erasure of Indigenous people and land, among many others.
On-site community engagements and rituals will be a part of this exhibition’s programming.
Photo Credit: © Camille Hoffman, Soft Gaze, 2023, Breckenridge International Festival of Arts, Breckenridge, CO.
Friday, December 20th, 2025 • 5-7PM • Old Masonic Hall
Breck Create Members are invited to join us during the opening reception as we reflect on the highlights of the year with a review of our 2024 Annual Report.
Saturday, January 11th, 2025 • 5-7PM • Old Masonic Hall
© Camille Hoffman, Landing for Lolo, 2021, (detail), NADA House, Governors Island, New York, NY
© Gyun Hur, So we can be near, 2021, (detail), Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill | Bronx, New York
© Camille Hoffman, Motherlands, 2022, (detail), Form and Concept, Santa Fe, NM
© Gyun Hur, installation view, Our mothers, our water, our peace, 2024, Flux Projects | Atlanta, Georgia
Gyun Hur is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose biographical context as a first-generation immigrant growing up in the American South largely informs her practice and pedagogical approach. In Hur’s work, she is deeply engaged in generating poetics of beauty and grief within the visual and emotional spaces she creates. Through iterations of installations, performances, drawings, and writings, Gyun navigates between autobiographical abstraction and figurative storytelling, exploring what holds us together: stories, yearnings, rituals, and spirituality.
Gyun completed Art Farm Serenbe Residency, Stove Works Residency, NARS Foundation Residency, Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, Pratt Fine Arts Residency, BRICworkspace, Danspace Project Platform Writer-in-Residency, Ox-Bow Artist-in-Residency, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the recipient of Artadia, AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, Faculty Research Funds (Parsons School of Design), and the inaugural Hudgens Prize. Her works have been featured in Hyperallergic, The Cut, Art In America, Art Paper, Sculpture, Art Asia Pacific, Public Art Magazine Korea, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Yahoo! Tech, Huffington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Pelican Bomb, Creative Loafing, Jezebel, and The Atlantan.
She teaches at Parsons School of Design, The New School as an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts.
Camille Hoffman is a painter who critically reimagines the romantic American landscape through layered and immersive site-specific installations. Her practice re-threads misplaced histories, materials, and ancestral geographies by resculpting mass-produced vinyl landscapes through handwork — collage, sewing, and painterly gesture. Through this tactile transformation, she builds sacred in-between spaces that evoke the sensory experience of moving between multiple places and identities at once. Informed by historical research, community-oriented conversations, and dreams, these spaces are activated by the land they live on, the architecture that houses them, and the people who visit.
Camille earned an MFA from Yale University (2015) and a BFA from California College of the Arts (2009). She was a recipient of the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for excellence in painting from Yale University, a National Endowment for the Arts scholarship, a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, and the Van Lier Fellowship from the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and abroad and has been featured in publications including Art in America, Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic, and The New Yorker. Solo exhibitions include Soft Gaze at BreckCreate (2023), Motherlands at Form & Concept (2022), See and Missed at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (2022), Landing For Lolo at NADA House Governors Island (2021), Excelsior: Ever Upward, Ever Afloat at the Queens Museum (2019), and Pieceable Kingdom at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018).
Hoffman has participated in various artist residencies and worked as an arts educator for over 16 years. She currently teaches at The Cooper Union.
