CAMERON GAINER
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Biography
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N.I.L. 1, 2012
archival pigment print on Hahnemule photo rag edition of 5 + 2 AP |
Cameron Gainer (b. 1973) is a visual artist making work in a diverse range of media. He is the Publisher and Executive Editor of The Third Rail a nonprofit publication devoted to a discussion of modern
and contemporary art, politics, philosophy, and culture. Gainer is also the Artistic Director of co. (company projects) an itinerant artist run project space that presents exhibitions, performance, artists’ books, and screenings. He has had solo museum exhibitions at The New Temporary Contemporary at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, and the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Group exhibitions include “Spectators, Rendered and Regulated” at Koenig and Clinton. Gallery New York, New York; “Midnight Party” at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; “The Paranoia of Time” at Carter & Citizen Gallery, Los Angeles; “Portal” at McClain Gallery, Houston. Awards and fellowships include a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner grant, James L. McKnight Fellowship, and a Jerome Foundation grant for research. Headshot credit: Julia Sherman, "salad for president" |
