Visiting Artist Program: Natalia Mejía Murillo

Natalia Mejía Murillo (b. Bogotá, Colombia) is a visual artist whose work explores the notions of territory, repetition, trace and time through correspondences between astronomy, cartography and archaeology. She holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MA in History and Theory of Art and a BFA from the National University of Colombia.

Mejía has been the recipient of awards including the Artistic Research Fellow at Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC (2025), 98th ANNUAL International Competition of The Print Center, Philadelphia (2023-2024), Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Germany (2020) and Ministry of Culture of Colombia – Mexico (FONCA) (2017). She has also been awarded residencies at John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2025); Fire Station (Doha, Qatar, 2024-2025), Radio 28, (Mexico City, 2024), MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA, 2023), Curatorial Program for Research (New York, 2023), Tajo Taller and Saenger Galería (Mexico City, 2023), Ellis-Beauregard Foundation (Maine, 2022), Fundació Miró Mallorca and Casa de Velázquez (Madrid, Spain, 2021), Fundación CIEC – Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporánea (Betanzos, Spain, 2014), The Strzemioski Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Łódz, Poland, 2014) among others.

All lectures are free and open to the public. These lectures will be held from 12:45 pm to 1:45 pm (free period) in the Fine Arts Building, Room 110.

About the program

Nationally and internationally acclaimed visual artists and art collectives visit our campus to present lectures about their work and professional practices. Visiting artists and designers have a chance to meet with the students and the larger Rutgers University–Camden community to continue the dialogue about perspectives on contemporary art. The main theme of our Fall 2026 lecture series is Art and Immigration.