Dorielle Caimi (born 1985) is an American artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She uses oil painting to depict figuration, vivid colors, and symbolism as reclamation and recompilation of societal ideas regarding women.
[1] Caimi began her formal drawing and painting studies at Central New Mexico Community College (2002–2004).
[2][3] After earning her bachelor's degree, Caimi worked privately in Albuquerque, New Mexico for four years to create her first body of work, eleven paintings of the "modern, unretouched woman"[4] which debuted at Gusford L.A.[5] Caimi utilizes live models, her imagination, composite images, and sometimes her own body to create her paintings, juxtaposing contemporary and classical representations of female nudes by highlighting aspects not often portrayed in mainstream modern society such as tan lines, imperfections of the flesh, and poor posture.
[8] In 2015 she was awarded the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award for work that "visually responds to painting in the 21st century" juried by LACMA's Franklin Sirmans,[9] and in 2019 she was selected as one of ten finalists for the Bennett Prize For Women Figurative Realists.