Cameron Jamie (born 1969) is a California born, Paris based artist who examines European and American societies through their ritualistic practices and the myth and fantasy in everyday life. His broad oeuvre includes film, performance, photography, printmaking, drawing and sculpture.
Jamie’s work was included in the 2019 Venice Biennale, May You Live In Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff . In 2016 he was awarded the Guerlain Art Foundation Prize for Drawing and in 2008 he received the First Annual Yanghyun Prize from the Yanghun Foundation in Seoul, South Korea. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at several institutions including Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Musée Beaux Arts, Nantes, France; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Cameron Jamie has been making monotypes as Two Palms since 2017.
Lumina, 2018
Monotype in watercolor and pencil on Lanaquarelle paper
68 1/4 x 48 inches
Untitled, 2017
Monotype in watercolor and pencil on Lanaquarelle paper
68 1/4 x 48 inches
Aurora Circuits, 2017
Monotype in watercolor and pencil on Lanaquarelle paper
68 1/4 x 48 inches
Untitled, 2017
Monotype in watercolor and pencil on Lanaquarelle paper
68 1/4 x 48 inches
Fractal Flow, 2017
Monotype in watercolor and pencil on Lanaquarelle paper
68 1/4 x 48 inches
Inflorescence Structure VI, 2018
Monotype in watercolor and pencil on Lanaquarelle paper
68 1/4 x 48 inches
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Cameron Jamie, NICC Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Cameron Jamie: Drawings and Monotypes, CAPRI, Dusseldorf, Germany
2017 Bodies, Faces, Heads, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
2013 Cameron Jamie, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 Cameron Jamie Film Retrospective, Cineteca Nacional Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
2010 Cameron Jamie, Mehringdamm 28, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
2009 Cameron Jamie: Ink Works, Musée Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
2008 Cameron Jamie: Film Work Retrospective, 46th Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón, Gijón, Spain
2006 Cameron Jamie, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2005 Cameron Jamie: JO, La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro Goldoni, Venice, Italy
2003 Prospectif Cinema - Cameron Jamie: BB & Kranky Klaus, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice Biennale 2019, Venice, Italy
2018 Backcovers: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland
2017 Voyage d’hiver, Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
2016 The Infinite Mix: Sound and Image in Contemporary Video, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2016 Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2016 Void California, CCA Wattis, Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2015 Ceramix, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2013 Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlian, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2013 Salon of Fear, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2013 Antigrazioso, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
2011 Vision In A Cornfield, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2011 Absentee Landlord, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Speak, Memory, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
