Artist monograph
LouisCameron
American culture, text, symbols, and public memory
1997 2014
Curator dossier / Biography
Symbols become
public memory.
Louis Cameron (b. 1973) is an American artist that lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Cameron's works examine American culture and it's intersections with German and other cultures. He works in in a variety of media with a focus on text based installations.
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 MoMA PS1, New York; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; the Contemporary Art Museum Houston; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom; and the Dakar Biennial, Senegal.
Cameron has participated in the Artist-in-Residence program at The Studio Museum in Harlem and been a Fellow in Painting with the New York Foundation for the Arts.
His work is in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; the International Center of Photography, New York; and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Selected solo exhibitions and projects
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; The Kitchen, New York; The Armory Show, New York; and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Selected group exhibitions
MoMA PS1, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Dakar Biennial.
Residencies and fellowships
Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Fellow in Painting with the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Selected collections
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, International Center of Photography, and Saint Louis Art Museum.
Across flags, slogans,public streets, and found images,Cameron examines how national identityis constructed, circulated, watched, and revised.
