Cameron Patricia Downey

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Cameron Patricia Downey, Hoard Ecstatic at T293, Rome

Biography

“I am deeply interested in the processes and elements through which we choose to adorn and care for ourselves,” the artist observes. Cameron Patricia Downey is an anti-disciplinary artist whose work oscillates between sculpture, photography, film, body, curation, and otherwise. Peering into the private lives of objects, seeing instruction in the incidental, the precarious, and the misremembered, Downey’s work strives to archive, unfurl, make-altar-of and lend fantasy to the Blues of Black life and relation. Through various forms of sculpture, the artist explores how the meaning of an object can transform or gain momentum through its repetition, drawing inspiration from the rhythm of the blues. A central theme in her work is the intimate respect and empathy Downey holds for objects. Through elevation, multiplication, and placement of them at the center of attention, she investigates what happens when these objects, once meant to serve us, are freed from their functions.

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

8.10.2025

peabody.yale.edu

Artist Interview: Cameron Patricia Downey

05.2025

Artnet

Nightlife, Kinship, and Queer Identity Collide in Oscar Yi Hou’s New Exhibition

02.2025

Art Viewer

Cameron Patricia Downey at T293, Rome

01.2025

MinnPost

Contemporary artist Cameron Patricia Downey’s works showcased in Italy, New York and at home in Minneapolis

01.2025

RACKET

Cameron Patricia Downey’s ‘Super Deluxe’ Toys With the Performance of Luxury

09.2023

The Channels

Cameron Patricia Downey connects to their past by creating novel art

04.2023

MPR News

‘Lord Split Me Open’: The raw art of Cameron Patricia Downey

CV

Cameron Patricia Downey (1998, Minneapolis, Minnesota) graduated from Columbia University in 2021 with a double concentration in visual art and environmental science and is currently an MF candidate in sculpture at the Yale School of Art. They were the 2023 recipient of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation’s MN Art Prize and have been an artist in residence with the Walker Art Center’s Moving Image Department, Juxtaposition Arts, Loghaven Artist Residency, and Second Shift Studio Space of Saint Paul. In 2025, they were awarded both the Fine Arts Fellowship at the Peabody Museum and the Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship at Yale University.

Selected solo exhibitions

2025
‘Peabody Art Fellowship’, The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, New Haven
‘Hoard Ecstatic’, T293 Rome

2024
‘Super Deluxe’, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis

2023
‘Orchid Blues’, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
‘Lord Split Me Open’, Hair+Nails, Minneapolis

Selected group exhibitions

2025
‘Rotate’, HAIR+NAILS, New York
‘DEVIATIONS’, James Fuentes, New York
‘doomscrolling’, 032c Gallery, Berlin
‘The Unruly Dance of Form’, Fragment Gallery, New York

2024
‘This Must Be The Place’, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
‘Black Star’, Strada Gallery, New York
‘Deathpower’, Law Warschaw Gallery, St. Paul
‘Felix Art Fair’, H+N Gallery, Los Angeles

2023
Walker Art Center Mediatheque, Artist in Residence, Minneapolis

2022
‘Second Shift Studio Space’, Artist In Residence, St. Paul’In The River’, Midway Contemporary Gallery Off-Site, St. Paul

2020
‘FUTURE FUTURE’, Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis

Cameron Patricia Downey