Cameron Jamie

American artist Cameron Jamie has a distinct place of its own in the contemporary art scene. Through a wide range of media, performance, video, sculpture, installation, photography and drawing his work embodies an ongoing investigation into the unselfconscious folklore of suburban culture exploring marginal realities, amateur and vernacular traditions and revealing a hidden face of our society. Hailing originally from the suburbs of Los Angeles and heavily influenced by West coast culture. The Californian artist directs a sharp critical gaze on the cultural and historic anchorage of popular imagery, its social trajectory and daily impact. His pictographic subject-matter ranges from rock music, suburban teen wrestling, comic-books, catch, eating contests, gothic aesthetics and spook houses to Michael Jackson impersonators and Scandinavian fringe rituals. His oevre investigates folkloric myths and contemporary suburban cultures, focusing on the impact of mythological structures in modern societies and individuals.

Cameron Jamie's solo exhibitions include the Kunsthalle Zürich (2013), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011), the Cineteca National Mexico (2011), the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA (2007), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2006), and the Teatro Goldoni at the Venice Biennale (2005).

Cameron Jamie was born in Los Angeles, California in 1969. He now lives and works in Berlin.