Robin Cameron (b.1981, British Columbia, Canada) is an artist based in New York City who works in a wide range of media such as ceramics, brass sculptures, films, drawings, cyanotypes and printmaking. She often uses traditional media in an unconventional way to explore the boundaries of time, systems of thought, and identity.

She is best known for making books which are available at Printed Matter and held in the collection of the MoMA library.

Her work is in the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum.

She graduated in 2012 with an MFA from Columbia University. She has worked as a visiting professor at Cornell University and Lehigh University and an adjunct at Rutgers University.


Updates:
@robinscameron

Inquiries:
robincameron@gmail.com

Video Documentary Series:
Scenes from the Studio

Latest Print Series:
Power Prints

Newsletter:

Education

2012 MFA, Visual Arts, Columbia University
2004 BDes, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design

Selected Exhibitions
2023
Little House with G. William Webb, Peep Projects, Philadelphia, PA

2022
What a Long Strange Trip, Analog Diary, Beacon, NY
O le beau le beau le beau, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
A light in the attic, group show organized by Georgia McGovern, Brooklyn, NY

2021
Something About the Shortest Distance Peep Projects, two person show with Bea Parsons, Philadelphia, PA
Anarchy of the Imagination organized by Ryan Foerster, at Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York, NY
Clearing the Air organized by Jay Davis, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY

2020
Memory Palace Franz Kaka, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Shift Key online video screening, MoCA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cluster Vestibule, Randolph, Vermont
Leaping one night pig roast, curated by G. William Webb, La Caja China at Kaje, Brooklyn NY
DUST: The plates of present, a project co-founded by Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang, group show at the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2019
Motion & Motive, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cornell Art Faculty 2019, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY

2018
No Now, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

2017
Yes / No, Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, MI (solo)
Intoto 4, Essex Flowers, New York, NY, curated by Thomas Fougeirol and Julien Carreyn
Archipelago, The Chimney, Brooklyn, NY
Right Now, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Monument to Chronology, Princess, New York, NY

2016
The Castle of Perseverance, Crush Curatorial, Amagasett, NY, curated by Molly Surno
Future Developments, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Onion by the Ocean, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Window installation, Four AM, New York, NY
The Fifth of July, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Large Glass, The Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY, curated by Jennifer Sullivan

2015
Alchemy, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Doc, Paris, France, Curated by Jo-ey Tang and Daiga Grantina
Pangrammar, P!, New York, NY
Dust: The plates of the present, February 2013-July 2015, at Camera Club of New York
The Crack Up, Room East, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
The Bar at the End of the Night, David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY

2014
Who You, Room East, New York (solo)
The Built Environment, Mixer, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Kathleen Madden

2013
Une Seconde Vie, Galerie Lefebvre & fils, Paris, France (solo)
Sense and Sensibility, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy, curated by Chris Sharp
Rock Art & the X-ray Style Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Ryan Foerster
__________. , Bodega, Philadelphia, PA (two person with Sebastian Black)
Broken Windows, New York Gallery, NY, Organized by Benoît Maire

2012
P-R-O-C-E-S-S-E-S, Room East, New York, NY (solo)
UR, Room East, New York, NY
T-R-U-T-H, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON (solo)
Columbia University Thesis Show, Emily Fisher Landau Center, Queens, NY
III, Martos Gallery, New York, NY

2011
Outdoor Sculpture, C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, NY
Paul Theobald and Company, Golden Age Bookstore, Chicago, IL

160 km, Kidd Yellin Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
196 Guernsey, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Harvest Moon, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
Sprung, Hotel Chelsea, New York
1st Year MFA Show, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Unstable Ground, UNIT/PITT Projects (Formerly The Helen Pitt) Vancouver, BC
Wax Apple, Bodega, Philadelphia, PA

Library Presentations
2013
Primary Information at Excursus, ICA, Philadelphia, PA

2011
Reference Work, curated by Golden Age Bookstore, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

2010
The Assembled Picture Library of New York City, Esopus Gallery, NY
Short Term Deviation, curated by Jesse Hlebo, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
General Public Library, curated by Mylinh Nguyen, Art in General, NY

2009
The Generational, New Museum’s Resource Center, New York, NY
Nieves Exhibition, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Mind Maps (Zine Launch), Golden Age, Chicago, IL
NYC Zine Fest, Three Day Publishing Fair, Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, NY
Zine’s Mate, Three Day Publishing Fair, Vacant, Tokyo, JP
2. Zurcher Zine Sezession, One Day Publishing Fair, Perla-Mode, Zurich, CH

2008
Nieves Library at Ooga Booga Store, Los Angeles, CA

Awards and Residencies
2019 Urban Glass Scholarship, Stained Glass Special Projects
2019 Tasmeem Doha, VCU Qatar, Teaching Residency Workshop
2018 Offshore Residency, Athens Greece
2018 Art City Teaching Residency, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2018 Canada Council Research & Creation Grant
2018 Project Art Residency, Redhook Brooklyn
2018 Wingate Printmaking Residency
2017 Catwalk Summer Artists Residency
2016 Wingate Printmaking Residency
2014 Ontario Arts Council Grant
2012-2016 Greenwich House Pottery Scholarship
2011 Banff Center Summer Residency: Dexter Sinister
2011 Jury Member for Printed Matter’s Books For Artists

Curatorial
2015 Scenes from the Studio, artists video documentary series
2012 The Work Locates Itself, Curated with Kari Cwynar, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY
2011 Outside Mediation, Green Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Lectures
2019 Likeminds, Guest Speaker, On Time, Fishkill, NY
2019 Cornell AAP Guest Lecture, On Time, Ithaca, NY
2018 Cal Arts Guest Lecture, Valencia, California
2018 Wide Rainbow chine colle workshop, Bedsty Brooklyn, New York
2016-17 Sotheby’s Institue of Art and Barnard Alumni, Guest Artist Lecture, New York
2017 Sotheby’s Institute of Art
2016 Barnard Conversations in Contemporary Art
2015 Dust: plates of the present, Round Table, 2015 NY Art Book Fair
2012 Works In Progress, Autobiography and Fiction in Contemporary Art, Columbia University MODA
2010 Experimental Libraries and Reading Rooms, NY Art Book Fair

Collections
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The MoMA Library
The New Museum’s Resource Center
Royal Bank of Canada