Biography

Pace University ALL - Art

Artist
Fine Art
Louis
Cameron
Brooklyn, New York
Louis Cameron was born in Columbus, Ohio; raised in Los Angeles, California; and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a B.F.A. from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia.

Cameron's work engages in a discourse on representation. Several bodies of work testing product identity, looking at American identity, and recently examining issues concerning surveillance have dealt with this issue. Cameron has employed color, graphic design, and photo-based images as means for his explorations.

Cameron has had solo exhibitions and projects at the Saint Louis Art Museum; the Jersey City Museum, New Jersey; The Kitchen, New York; The Armory Show; and I-20 Gallery, New York. 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; Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; 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 Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Cameron has taught at Princeton University, Yale University, Brooklyn College, and Pace University amongst other institutions.