Amid 21st century narratives of futurity and progress, Camille's work proposes culture as a shared burden of cultivation. It aims to create conditions for unfolding interaction, inviting collaboration between human and nonhuman actors to catalyze unknown outcomes and the conditions of care for their aftermath.
Camille was born in Chicago, and though identified primarily as a painter, found a spiritual home in raves and underground music in the late 90s. In a former life, the artist was employed by Universal Studios and traveled extensively painting facades for theme parks across the US and Asia. These worlds collide into a deeply material practice which seeks proof of the real.
Camille received a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, and an MFA from Yale, as well as the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize, presented to an artist “who demonstrates a developing consciousness, personal vision and spirit of search.” Camille lives and works in Climax, New York.CV
MFA Yale University | Painting + Printmaking 2018
BFA Concordia University | Montreal, Canada 2008
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2018 Yale University | Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize
2018 Basic Drawing | Yale School of Art Teaching Assistant | Professor Robert Storr
2017 Basic Painting | Yale School of Art Teaching Assistant | Professor Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
2017 Yale School of Art | Travel Grant Institute for Investigative Living | Joshua Tree, CA
2016 Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media | Grad Fellow
2006 Concordia University | Fine Art Student Alliance Grant | Montreal, Quebec
2005 Art Matters Festival | Production Grant | Montreal, Quebec
2003 Gallery 37 | Artist Fellowship | Chicago, Illinois
2002 Free Street Theater | Artist Fellowship | Chicago, Illinois
ECP Merit Award | School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Gallery 37 Artist Fellowship | Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Yale Architecture Gallery | garden-pleasure
601 Artspace | New York
AREA gallery | Boston
2019 Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters
2018 MWTH Project | New York
Diane Rosenstein Gallery | Los Angeles
Next to Nothing Gallery | New York
Yale College | Office of the Dean
Wild Seed | Green Hall Gallery
2017 The Ottoman Empire | Sam’s Space
The Study | New Haven, Connecticut
2016 Queering Space | Green Hall Gallery
Chemistry Creative | The End | Brooklyn, New York
The Tappan Collective | Los Angeles, California
UNICEF Juried Exhibition | Los Angeles
2015 Mysteries of The Deep | Brooklyn, New York
2014 Leows Regency Hotel | New York, New York
Mariner Silver EP | Navy Yard Records | NY001
Bossa Nova Social Club | Brooklyn, New York
Twenty Grand Studios | Brooklyn, New York
2013 The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center | Brooklyn, New York
National Underground | New York
2012 The Blind Barber | Imagining Sisyphus Happy | New York
The Phatory Gallery | Beautiful Fields presents Phenomena | New York
GO Brooklyn | Brooklyn, New York
2010 Light/Weight | Ringwood, New Jersey
The Greenpoint Gallery | Brooklyn, New York
Richardson Studios | Brooklyn, New York
2009 The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts | Wilmington, Delaware
Little Skips | Brooklyn, New York
Windows Gallery | Queens, New York
2008 Veaux Gallery | New York
Milio's | Chicago, Illinois
Logan Square Artspace | Chicago, Illinois
2007 Millennium Park | Great Performers of Illinois Festival | Chicago, Illinois
2007 Millennium Park | Great Performers of Illinois Festival | Chicago, Illinois
La Société des Arts Technologiques | Pure Data Summit | Montreal, Quebec
Galerie FOFA Concordia University | Montreal, Quebec
2006 Foufouns Electriques | Montreal, Quebec
Concordia University | Art Matters Festival | Montreal, Quebec
Salon Rouge | Montreal, Quebec
2005 Foufounes Electriques | Montreal, Quebec POP Montreal | Montreal, Quebec
Concordia University | Art Matters | Montreal, Quebec
2003 Trap Door Theater | Fringe Festival | Chicago, Illinois
The Chopin Theater | Chicago, Illinois
2002 National Juried Exhibition of Student Works | Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago
MUSIC RELEASES and PUBLICATIONS
Vanishing Point | MOTDLP004
Oath | Mysteries of The Deep
Entropy EP | BOP003
Orphan Anvil EP | BOP002
Birds of Prey | Kathexis Records | KTX002
Birds of Prey Nocturne EP | BOP001
James Catchpole, A Closer Listen, review of Birds of Prey, September 7, 2015
Brian Kolada, Resident Advisor News, July 20, 2015
Brooks Barnes, "Clash of the Theme Parks," The New York Times, Monday, May 21, 2012, B1.
Nightlife Magazine Montreal, June 2006.
No Commercial Value Montreal, April 2006.
BIO
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