Miami, November 2026 — Opa Projects is pleased to announce One Thousand Suns, a solo presentation of new works by Camilla Marie Dahl at the 24th edition of NADA Miami, taking place December 1–5, 2026.
Marking a new chapter in the artist’s evolving practice, One Thousand Suns brings together a body of work centered on the sunflower, a recurring motif that has recently emerged as a central subject in Dahl’s paintings. Through vibrant color, sculptural surfaces, and a playful exploration of form, the artist reimagines this familiar symbol of warmth and vitality, transforming it into a vehicle for material and visual experimentation.
Known for her richly textured compositions and distinctive use of saturated color, Dahl draws inspiration from the everyday environments, objects, and landscapes that surround her. While her earlier works often explored domestic interiors and personal memories, this new series signals a shift toward the natural world. The sunflower, with its expressive silhouette, rhythmic forms, and enduring relationship to sunlight, offers Dahl a compelling subject through which to investigate light, movement, and the emotional resonance of color.
Central to Dahl’s practice is an unconventional approach to painting that blurs the boundaries between image and object. Working with carved foam, crushed marble, acrylic, and oil, she constructs surfaces that extend beyond the traditional picture plane, lending her compositions a distinctly sculptural quality. Her paintings are as much built as they are rendered, with texture and material playing an integral role in shaping the viewer’s experience.
Presented following Warmth in Two Tones, Dahl’s solo exhibition at Opa Projects in Miami earlier this year, One Thousand Suns reflects both continuity and transformation in her artistic language. The intimacy and familiarity of her earlier subjects remain, yet the compositions open onto a new exploration of the organic world, where nature becomes a site of both observation and imagination.
With One Thousand Suns, Dahl invites viewers to encounter the familiar anew, revealing the expressive possibilities of color, material, and light through a subject at once ordinary and extraordinary.
About the Artist
Camilla Marie Dahl (b. 1993) lives and works between Cornwall, Connecticut, and La Bisbal d’Empordà, Spain.
Working across painting and sculpture, Dahl has developed a distinctive visual language defined by saturated color, tactile surfaces, and an interplay between two- and three-dimensional forms.
Drawing on subjects from the natural and domestic worlds, her practice transforms everyday imagery into compositions that move between observation, memory, and imagination.
Dahl holds a BS from Skidmore College and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art.
Recent solo exhibitions include Warmth in Two Tones, Opa Projects, Miami (2026); The Way Home, Unit London (2024); Sun and Stone, F2T Gallery, Milan (2023); and Weathervane, Ross + Kramer Gallery, East Hampton (2023). Her work was also presented at Untitled Art, Houston (2026), with Opa Projects.
She is a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2019 and 2021).
