Today’s guest is Jamil Hellu, visual artist based in the Bay Area whose work deals with issues of identity relating to race, queer sexuality, and gender. We discuss his path to becoming an artist and how his art practice has grown over the years. 

Jamil’s solo show titled Together is on exhibit at SF Camerawork through March 14th. For more info visit: https://sfcamerawork.org/exhibitions. To learn more about Jamil and his work visit his website at https://jamilhellu.net.

Music by Obed Padilla (https://soundcloud.com/obedpadilla).

Jamil Hellu
Jamil Hellu
“100 Years of Solitude,” 2014 In response to the anti-LGBTQ law passed in Russia in 2013, and Moscow’s ruling to block permissions to organize pride parades for the next 100 years.
“Rider,” 2016
“By wearing my grandmother’s rebozo on my head, I celebrate not only my ancestral maternal tradition but my own feminine expression of the mother goddess within,” affirms Lorenzo Lambertino, a Mexican of Lebanese heritage. Hues Project, 2018.
“Jamil Hellu: Together” at SF Camerawork, 2020. (Image credit: Senny Mau)
“Jamil Hellu: Together” at SF Camerawork, 2020. (Image credit: Senny Mau)
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