Cameron Patricia Downey
Selected Works
Fray
2025hair, metal, acrylic
95 × 100 × 34 cm (37 ⅜ × 39 ⅜ × 13 ⅜ inches)
Company
2025hair, metal, acrylic
110 × 95 × 30 cm (43 ¼ × 37 ⅜ × 11 ¾ inches)
Silverfish
2025hair, metal, acrylic
100 × 93 × 28 cm (39 ⅜ × 36 ⅝ × 11 inches)
Play Cousin
2024613, metal, wood
70 × 40 × 53 cm (27 ½ × 15 ¾ × 20 ⅞ inches)
Coin
2025hair, metal, acrylic
75 × 93 × 28 cm (29 ½ × 36 ⅝ × 11 inches)
Player’s March
2025ironing boards steel
275 × 410 × 110 cm (108 ¼ × 161 ⅜ × 43 ¼ inches)
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Biography
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 a first-year MFA 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 are a recent 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. 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 investigate what happens when these objects, once meant to serve us, are freed from their functions. “I am deeply interested in the processes and elements through which we choose to adorn and care for ourselves” the artist observes.
Gallery Exhibitions
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Selected group exhibitions
Downey’s work has been exhibited by HAIR+NAILS, Minneapolis; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Engage Projects, Chicago; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Strada Gallery, New York.