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  • i: Louis Cameron
  • l: <div style="margin-top:-3px; margin-left:14px;"> Born 1973 in Columbus, OH<br/> Artists Residency, Studio Museum in Harlem, 2002 - 2003 <br/> MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA<br/> BFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA<br/> Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME<br/> Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY<br/> </div>

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013

I-20 Gallery, New York

2010

The African-American Flag Project, I-20 Gallery, New York

The Armory Show, New York

2009

Louis Cameron: Recent Videos, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey

New Media Series: Louis Cameron, Heineken, curated by Charlotte Eyerman, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

2008

Louis Cameron: Recent Painting, Collage, and Video, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri

2007

Louis Cameron, I-20 Gallery, New York

2006

Louis Cameron: Severe, High, Elevated, Guarded, Low, G Fine Art, Washington, DC

Louis Cameron: Projected Works, curated by James Dickerson, E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

2005

Schwarz Project 2: Louis Cameron, The Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College School

of Art + Design, State University of New York, Purchase, NY

Pop Secret, I-20 Gallery, New York

2004

Camouflage, Project Space 1, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2003

Web #7, Art in General, New York

Web #4 (Project), I-20 Gallery, New York, NY

2000

Transfixed, with Mary Temple, ARTPLACE, Los Angeles, CA

Grid #10, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013

Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.

2012

The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum, New York.

2010

ECHO: Sampling Visual Culture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

Points of View, curated by Stefan Simchowitz at PortugalArte10, Lisbon

2009

Born in the USA, Pete’s Motors, The Berkshires, Massachusetts.

2008

Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei

Psychadelic, Overlook Gallery, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Opportunity as Community, Artists Select Artists, Part Two, Dieu Donne, New York

2007

REMIX Color and Light, curated by Claire Schneider, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX

Branded and On Display, curated by Judith Hoos Fox. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

2006

Unlearn, curated by Steven Matijcio. Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada

Bearable Lightness… Likeness, curated by Franklin Sirmans. P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center,

New York

Collection in Context: Gesture, curated by Thelma Golden. The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Dak’Art 2006, curated by Amy Horschak. Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal

Round, curated by Mathew Fisher and Christina Vassallo. Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ. Traveled to the Berrie Center, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

2005

Harlem Postcards Fall 2005, curated by Christine Y. Kim, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

blasts, curated by Paul Brewer, G Fine Art, Washington, DC

PpAaIiNnTtIiNnGg, curated by Karlos Carcamo, ParaSite, Beacon, NY

Musical Modes, curated by Rachel Howe, Clifford Change/Dinaburg Arts, New York, NY

Ars Digital. Curated by Joulia Strauss.  The 1st Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia

Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

2004

NextNext Visual Art, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

Abstract, USC School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA

Open House: Working in Brooklyn, curated by Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Buy American, curated by Joe Scanlan, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France

Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

2003

Hands on Hands down, 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

Northeast Artists: selections from New American Paintings (Book #38), OSP Gallery, Boston, MA

2001

Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition and Auction, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

Freestyle, curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Kim, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; traveled to The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

Made, POST, Los Angeles, CA

2000

Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; traveled to Arcadia College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA;

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

Fresh Cut Afros, Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

Go Ask Alice, POST wilshire, Los Angeles, CA

One Night Stand 1.2000, curated by Leonardo Bravo and Annetta Kappon, Park Plaza Lodge Hotel,

Los Angeles, CA

1999

LACPS Annual, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA

1998

A Skowhegan Decade 1987-1997: Alumni Exhibition and Benefit Auction, David Bietzel Gallery, New York

Bank Holiday, Old Key Bank, Skowhegan, ME

Dwellings, curated by Sandra Jackson, RUSH Arts Gallery, New York

1997

New Talent ’97, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Art of the State: Pennsylvania 1997, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

On the Wall, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA

More or Less (thesis exhibition), Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED REVIEWS

2010

Finch, Charlie. “Must Bad Painting Be Good?” artnet.com, http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/ finch/must-bad-painting-be-good4-30-10.asp

2009

Brooks, LeRonn. “Interview: Louis Cameron”, Studio, Fall/Winter 2008-2009, p.32-33

“Louis Cameron: “Heineken” at SLAM.”  ART-PATROL St.. Louis (January 8, 2009) http://www.art-patrol.com/?p=895

“Louis Cameron: Heineken Opens January 9 Saint Louis Art Museum,” artdaily.org (January 2, 2009) http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=28146.

2008

Bonetti, David. “Louis Cameron, Joseph Havel,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (May 25, 2008)

Cotter, Holland. “The Topic is Race; The Art is Fearless,” The New York Times (March 30, 2008)

2007

Finch, Charlie. “Weekday Update,” artnet.com http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/finch12-3-07.asp

Richard, Frances. “High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967 – 1975,” Artforum (April 2007): Reviews, p. 265

Colpitt, Frances. “Black Light/White Noise,” artUS, Winter 2007, p.58-59.

Ludwin, Victoria. “Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum,” artshouston (July 2007)

Petersen, Amy. “Black Light/White Noise,” HoustonPress (May 31, 2007)

2006

Dawson, Jessica. “Spectrum of Warnings,” The Washington Post (September 30, 2006): C2

Capps, Kriston. “Louis Cameron: Severe, High, Elevated, Guarded, Low,” Washington City Paper (September 29, 2006): p. 95

“P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center: Bearable Lightness… Likeness,” TimeOut New York (July 6 – 12, 2006): issue 562

Murray, Derek Conrad & Murray, Soraya. “Uneasy Bedfellows: Canonical Art Theory and the Politics of Identity,” Art Journal (Spring 2006): p. 23

“The New Rogues,” Esquire (May 2006): pp. 128 – 135

Cotter, Holland. “Energy and Abstraction at The Studio Museum in Harlem,” The New York Times, Weekend Arts, Art Review (April 7, 2006): pp. B27, B30

Meyer, Richard. “Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1965 – 1980,” Artforum (January 2006)

Genocchio, Benjamin. “Exploring the Circle From Every Angle,” The New York Times (January 1, 2006)

2005

Guy Nichols, Matthew. “Louis Cameron at I-20,” Art in America (September 2005)

Murray, Soraya and Conrad Murray, Derek. “A Rising Generation & the Pleasures of Freedom,” International Review of African American Art (IRAAA): Vol 20, No. 2 (Summer 2005), pp. 3, 7, back cover

Church, Amanda.  “Louis Cameron: “Pop Secret” at I-20 Gallery” Art on Paper (May/June 2005)

Art Listings.  Time Out New York Issue 487 (January 27- February 2, 2005)

2004

Beyer, Charles G. “Working in Brooklyn,” Flash Art, (July- September 2004)

Bey, Dawoud. “The Ironies of Diversity, or the Disappearing Black Artist,” www.artnet.com/magazine/features/bey/buy4-8-04.asp, April 8, 2004

Nichols, Mathew Guy. “Hands On, Hands Down at the Studio Museum in Harlem,” Art in America, February 2004

2003

“Hands On Hands Down,” The New Yorker, September 1, 2003, p.16

Rubinstein, Raphael.  “A Quiet Crisis,” Art in America (March 2003): 39.

“Artists In Residence 2002 – 2003” SMH Arts (Summer 2003)

Levin, Kim. “Voice Choices: Night Guide,” villagevoice.com (January 18, 2003)

Byrd, Cathy.  “Is there a ‘post-black’ art?  Investigating the legacy of the ‘Freestyle’ show.”  Art Papers, vol. 26, no. 6 (Nov-Dec 2002): 34-9.

2002

Brockington, Horace.  “Paint It Black: Abstraction/ A Trans-History,” NY Arts Magazine,

September 2002, p. 63

Byrd, Cathy. “Is there a ‘post-black’ art? Investigating the legacy of the ‘Freestyle’ show,” Art Papers (November/December 2002): 34-39

Cotter, Holland. “No Greater Love: Abstraction,” New York Times (October 11, 2002): E38

Schmerler, Sarah.  “Tract:  Systemic Sprawl,” Time Out New York (July 11-18, 2002):  47

“Plus Ultra,” The New Yorker (July 8, 2002):  14

New American Paintings (March 2002): Number 38, p. 30-33. Juror: Lilian Tone

Irvine, Steve. “Freestyle at the Santa Monica Museum of Art,” Artweek (December 2001/January 2002): 18

2001

Waxman, Lori.  “Freestyle,” New Art Examiner (November-December, 2001):  90.

Murray, Derek. “Freestyle,” NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art (Fall/Winter 2001):92-93

Murray, Derek. “Home to Harlem,” The International Review of African-American Art (Volume 17, Number 4): 48-51

Frank, Peter. “Freestyle, Willie Robert Middlebrook,” LA WEEKLY (November 16-22, 2001): 142

Valdez, Sarah.  “Freestyling,”  Art in America (September, 2001):  134-39, 162

Garnett, Joy. “Into Africa,” Artnet.com (June 26, 2001): http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/garnett/garnett6-26-01.asp

Brockington, Horace. “Freestyle: Studio Museum in Harlem,” NY Arts Magazine (June 2001): 36-37

Griffin, Tim. “Race Matters,” Time Out New York (May 24-31, 2001): 55-56

“The New Masters,” Vibe (May, 2001):  138-43

Cotter, Holland. “A Full Studio Museum Show Starts With 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn,” New York Times (May 11, 2001):E36

2000

Harvey, Doug. “Gender, Race,” LA WEEKLY (August 4-10, 2000): 47

1999

Ise. Claudine. “Framing the Many Possibilities of Photography in the Tech Age,” Los Angeles Times (March 5, 1999): F34

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2006

Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Best of New York Art 2009, with text by Xavier Tresaco.  Pages 59-61, Theredoom Publications. New York, New York, 2009

Branded and On Display, curated by Judith Hoos Fox. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 2007

Energy/ Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964 – 1980, transcribed roundtable discussion, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2006

Dak’Art 2006: 7th Biennial of African Contemporary Art, with text by Amy Horschak, Dakar, Senegal, 2006

EXTREME Abstraction, with text by Louis Grachos and Claire Schneider, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 2005

Open House: Working in Brooklyn, with text by Charlotta Kotik, Arnold lehman, and Tumelo Mosaka, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, 2004

“Handmade, Excerpts From A Conversation 5.23.03,” Hands on, Hands down, edited by Christine Kim, (exhibition brochure) The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2003

Freestyle, with text by Raina Lampkins-Fielder, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2001

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