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Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
Link to Website
2017
Environmental Photographs
By Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
A cat in a Japanese restaurant.
2019
3D computer graphics
The setting sun casts a firey light onto the skyline of San Francisco, with Coit Tower visible over the hills of the city.
2022
Oil paint on canvas
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
Digital Collage
A surreal portrayal of the cost of modern designer fashion culture.
2015
Scratchboard
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
2023
Oil on wood panel
I painted a woman who is battered but is pushing herself back up with resiliency. She sends a message of hope to those facing difficulties.
acrylic on wood
How do you heal after being discarded?
2021
Acrylic on Canvas
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
A portrayal of the death of Chaos as depicted in the Zhuangzi, who expired after Shu and Hu bored a new hole into him each day for seven days.
Digital Visual Art
Collage exploring feminist and bioethical discussions of reproductive technologies. Previously featured at the Medicine & the Muse Student Symposium. Link to Artwork
2024
print
This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
Water Color on Paper
“Ritual” is an unfinished game prototype that is one piece of a meta-narrative that unfolds as the viewer explores the file directory containing it.
2020
Interactive narrative horror game/file explorer experience
Vero is a UG2 custodial worker on campus who I tutor through habla. I hoped to display her as I have grown to know her: strong and compelling.
2018
Oil Paint on Canvas
This piece depicts how TikTok primarily portrays a fetishized version of Asian women, leading to an uncertain digital future of complicated dynamics.
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
Using alternative black and white photography techniques, I tried to illustrate the poems of the Persian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri.
2016
Black and White photography
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
I wanted to depict the endless possibilities of this world; the one we are so used to taking for granted.
Acrylic on canvas
This self portrait addresses my invisible disability and the words around me are a mix of medical statements and emotional entries from my journal.
Graphite on Paper
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
colored pencil, poetry