Cameron Patricia Downey (b. 1998) is an anti-disciplinary artist born and raised in North Minneapolis, Minnesota whose work oscillates between photography, film, body, sculpture, curation and otherwise. The incidental, the precarious and the misremembered are central to this work which strives to archive, unfurl, make-altar-of and bring fantasy to the Blues of Black life and relation.
Exhibitions, Residencies, Curation, and Performance:
Deathpower, Law Warschaw Gallery, St. Paul MN - Spring 2024*
Felix Art Fair, H+N Gallery exhibiting artist, Los Angeles CA - Spring 2024*
Loghaven Artist Residency, Knoxville TN - Spring 2024*
Midway Contemporary Art solo exhibition, Minneapolis MN - Summer 2024*
Acquisition, Walker Art Center Visual Arts Permanent Collection, Minneapolis MN - 2023
Orchid Blues, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara solo exhibition, Santa Barbara CA - 2023
Curator, In Other Miles, Public Functionary, Minneapolis MN - 2023
Intervention, NightClub Gallery, Minneapolis MN - 2023
Lord Split Me Open, Hair+Nails solo exhibition, Minneapolis MN - 2023
Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize Recipient - 2023
MZ.25 (My Condolences), M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - 2023
Walker Art Center Mediatheque, Artist in Residence, Minneapolis MN - 2022-2023
NADA Art Fair booth, H+N Gallery, Miami FL - 2022
Second Shift Studio Space, Artist In Residence, St. Paul MN - 2022-2023
In The River, Midway Contemporary Gallery Off-Site, St. Paul MN - 2022
Intersections, Engage Projects Gallery, Chicago IL - 2021-2022
Wild Frictions: The Politics and Poetics of Interruption, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin Germany - 2021
The Human Scale, Rochester Art Center, Rochester MN - 2021
Three Things Last Forever, Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis MN - 2020
Curator and exhibiting artist, Holding Space, Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis MN - 2020
FUTURE FUTURE, Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis MN - 2020
Elam School of Art, Auckland New Zealand - 2019
H+N at 9 Herkimer Pl, Brooklyn NY - 2019
Convergence, Convergence Space Gallery, Manhattan NY - 2018
These Streets Weren’t Paved For Tenderness, 25 East Gallery, Manhattan NY - 2018
Assistant Curator, Recourse: With Notes From Black Wall Street, Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis MN - 2018
Assisting curator and artist, Relics: An Investigation of Black August, Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis MN - 2017
A Choice of Weapons, Mill City Museum, Minneapolis MN - 2014
(forthcoming*)