Bio

Camilla Padgitt-Coles is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist and musician. Their practice explores how sound and light can hold and shift awareness. They perform music, create audio-visual installations, and offer private and group sound sessions.

Photo: Zeljko McMullen

b. 1985 New York, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education

Master's, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP-NYU Tisch), New York, NY (2019)
B.A., Studio Art, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH (2007)

Solo Shows

Ivy Meadows Sound & Light Healing — Essex Flowers, New York, NY (November 22–December 21, 2025)
Disco Nap — Essex Flowers, New York, NY (May–June 2024)
Arco Íris — Essex Flowers, New York (April–May 2023)
Rainbow Diner — Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY (2023)
The Tuning House — Essex Flowers, New York (Feb–Mar 2020)

Residencies

Pioche Projects – Biarritz, France (April 2024)
All Is Leaf — Taos, New Mexico, USA (June 2019)

Group Shows and Festivals - select

The Second Room – Essex Flowers, New York, NY (2025)
DO LESS — Affective Care, New York, NY (Sept 2023–June 2025)
Governors Island Winter Celebration — Governors Island, New York, NY, USA (2023)
Island Luminaria — Flux Factory House, Governors Island, New York, NY
Perennials: 10 Years of Essex Flowers — Essex Flowers, New York, NY
Confetti falls from the ceiling — Essex Flowers, New York, NY (2022)
DICE Conference + Festival, Berlin – Online
SONIC MATTER FESTIVAL — Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland (2021)
AmphorasamorphA — Flux Factory House, Governors Island, New York, NY
Cut-Ups — Essex Flowers, New York, NY
Intimates — E.V. Gallery, New York, NY
Light Windows – Presented internationally by HoloCenter
Spier Light Art — Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Un/Sounding The Relational City — NYU Bobst Library, New York, NY (2020)
The Waiting Room — Pineapple Reality, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
Delta~Wave Festival — Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium (2018)
Bread and Roses: A Dinner-Symposium on Women and the Arts — MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2016)
24-HOUR DRONE: EXPERIMENTS IN SOUND AND MUSIC — Basilica Hudson, New York, NY
NewHive – Online Commission (2015)
Neutral Paradise Sound Salon — Hannah Barry Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2012)
Street Show: The Things Between Us — Eyebeam, New York, NY (2011)
A Small Forest — Kunsthalle New, Chicago
BOMBlog Presents: Sound + Vision — The Kitchen, New York, NY
Pitchfork Presents: Altered Zones at the New Museum — The New Museum, New York, NY
24-Hour Performance — Robert Goff Gallery, New York, NY