Louis Cameron, I AM... portfolio from The Poster Project presents, Starless Midnight exhibition at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, installation view, 2017
Louis Cameron was born in Columbus, Ohio, USA; lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Cameron has had solo exhibitions and projects at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; The Kitchen, New York; The Armory Show, New York; and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
He has also participated in group exhibitions in the United States and abroad at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Contemporary Art Museum Houston; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom; Paris Photo, France; and the Dakar Biennial, Senegal.
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EDUCATION
1997
M.F.A., Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA
1996
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1995
B.F.A., Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Louis Cameron, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
2017
Louis Cameron, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis St. Louis, MO
2014
Times Square Ring of Steel, curated by Suzy Spence, The Gallery@1GAP Brooklyn, New York
2010
The Lift Series (project), The Kitchen, New York, NY
The African American Flag Project, The Armory Show (with I-20 Gallery), New York, NY
The African American Flag Project, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
2009
New Media Series: Louis Cameron, Heineken, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Louis Cameron: Recent Videos, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2008
Louis Cameron: Recent Painting, Collage, and Video, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
2007
Louis Cameron, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Severe, High, Elevated, Guarded, Low, G Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
Louis Cameron: Projected Works, E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2005
Schwarz Project 2: Louis Cameron, The Richard and Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
Pop Secret, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Camouflage (Project Room), Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Web #7, Art in General, New York, NY
Web #4 (Project), I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Transfixed, (two person exhibition with Mary Temple), ARTPLACE, Los Angeles, CA
Grid #10, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
An Overwhelming Illusion, Paris Photo 2021, New York, NY
Confessions of the Century, Broodthaers Society of America, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Proximity, curated by Lindsay Preston Zappas and Wilding Cran, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Imagining Data (virtual exhibition), curated by curatorsquared, https://curatorsquaredvirtualviews.com/imagining-data, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2020
Net Works (online exhibition), https://hub.link/CzLogZ5, KORA AGORA
2018
This Must Be the Place, curated by Charlotte Eyerman, Paris Photo, Paris, France
2017
Starless Midnight, curated by Edgar Arceneaux and Laurence Sillars, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2016
The Poster Remediated, 25th International Poster Biennale, curated by David Crowley, Poster Museum at Vilanów, Warsaw, Poland
2014
INTERWEB, curated by Ana Torok, Grand Art Haus, Brooklyn, NY
The Appearance of Clarity: Works in Black and White, curated by Amy Rahn, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
For Whom It Stands, curated by Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD
Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
2013
Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA
Pulp 3, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL
A New View: Contemporary Art, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
OCCUPRINT – We are the 99%, ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy
Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
2012
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2011
Dead in August, curated by Meaghan Kent, Pentagon, Brooklyn, NY
Jim Schmidt Presents: Abstraction, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
COLORFORMS, Praxis International Art, Miami, FL
2010
COLORFORMS, Praxis International Art, New York, NY
ECHO: Sampling Visual Culture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Portugal Arte 10, curated by Stefan Simchowitz, Lisbon, Portugal
American Ship (“A Merry Kinship”), curated by SOL’SAX, Junto Meeting Center, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Born in the USA, Pete’s Motors, Great Barrington, MA
Branded and on Display, curated by Judith Hoos Fox, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2008
2008 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Psychedelic: Carlos Amorales / Jeremy Blake / Louis Cameron / Shazia Sikander, curated by Steven Matijcio, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Opportunity as Community, Artists Select Artists, Part Two, Dieu Donné, New York, NY
Branded and on Display, curated by Judith Hoos Fox, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Branded and on Display, curated by Judith Hoos Fox, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
2007
REMIX Color and Light, curated by Claire Schneider, Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
Branded and on Display, curated by Judith Hoos Fox, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Branded and on Display, curated by Judith Hoos Fox, Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, IL
2006
Unlearn, curated by Steven Matijcio, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
Bearable Lightness…Likeness, Curated by Franklin Sirmans, P.S.1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY
Collection in Context: Gesture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Dak ‘Art 2006, Curated by Amy Horschak, The Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
2005
Harlem Postcard: Fall 2005, Curated by Christine Kim, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
BLASTS, Curated by Paul Brewer, G Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
PpAaIiNnTtIiNnGg, Curated by Karlos Carcamo, ParaSite, Beacon, NY
Musical Modes, Curated by Rachel Howe, Clifford Change/Dinaburg Arts, New York, NY
Extreme Abstraction, Curated by Louis Grachos and Claire Schneider, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Digital 2004: “I Click, Therefore I Am”, Parallel Program of The First Moscow Biennale, M’ARS Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2004
NextNext Visual Art, Curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Abstract, Curated by LouAnne Greenwald, F-Space, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Curated by Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
superSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Buy American, Curated by Joe Scanlan, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
2003
Hands On Hands Down: Artists-In-Residence 2002-2003, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2002
No Greater Love, Abstraction, Jack Tilton / Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
Tract: systemic sprawl, Curated by Amanda Church and Courtney Martin, Plus Ultra Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
REACTIONS, Exit Art, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, OSP gallery, Boston, MA
2001
Freestyle, Curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Kim, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Freestyle, Curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Kim, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Made, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Fresh Cut Afros, Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
Go Ask Alice, POSTwilshire, Los Angeles, CA
One Night Stand 1.2000, Curated by Leonardo Bravo & Annetta Kappon, Park Plaza Lodge Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
1999
LACPS Annual, Juror: Glenn Kaino, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Skowhegan Decade 1987-1997: Alumni Exhibition and Auction, David Bietzel Gallery, New York, NY
Bank Holiday, Old Key Bank, Skowhegan, ME
Dwellings, Curated by Sandra Jackson, RUSH Arts Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS/HONORS
2012
Fellow in Painting for the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2006
Fellow in Painting for the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2002/03
The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist-In-Residence, New York, NY
1996
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture/ New York, NY, Tyler School of Art Matching Fellowship, NYC
