Cameron Patricia Downey is an anti-disciplinary artist born and raised in North Minneapolis, whose work oscillates between photography, film, body, sculpture, curation, and otherwise. Seeing instruction in the incidental, the precarious, and the misremembered, their work strives to archive, unfurl, make-altar-of, and bring fantasy to the Blues of Black life and relation. Downey graduated from Columbia University in 2021, with a double concentration in visual art and environmental science. Their art has been exhibited by HAIR+NAILS, Minneapolis; Aronson Gallery, New York; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2021); Engage Projects, Chicago (2021–2022); as part of Midway Contemporary Art’s Off-Site program (2022); M+B Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); and Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (2023). They are in residence with the Walker’s Moving Image department from fall 2022 through spring 2023.
Artist info
1998 — present
United States
2 holdings
Artworks
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