Cameron Patricia Downey
Cameron 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. Seeing instruction in the incidental, the precarious and the misremembered, their work strives to archive, unfurl, make-altar-of and bring fantasy to the Blues of Black life and relation.
Downey graduated from Columbia University in 2021 with a double concentration in visual art and environmental science. Downey’s art has been exhibited by HAIR+NAILS, Minneapolis; Aronson Gallery, New York; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Engage Projects, Chicago; as part of Midway Contemporary Art’s Off-Site program; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; and Museum of
Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. They are the 2023 recipient of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation’s MN Art Prize, and 2023 residencies at the Walker Art Center’s Moving Image department and Second Shift Studio Space of Saint Paul.
Exhibitions with HAIR+NAILS:
Solo shows:
Lord Split Me Open // 4.22.23 – 6.4.23 // H+N MPLS
INHERITED, INVENTED // 8.29.2020 – 9.25.2020 // H+N MPLS
Group Shows:
Rotate: Cameron Patricia Downey, Chris Larson, Rachel Youn, Dahn Gim, and Ryan Fontaine // 9.3.2025 – 9.19.2025 // H+N NYC
Leaves, Machines, and Color Usurped // 2024-2025 H+N NYC Winter Group Show
FRESHLY FOR YOU // Inaugural group show // 9.4.24 – 11.3.24 // H+N NYC
PAINTING SHOW / 19 Paintings by 19 Painters / 10.4.22 – 10.15.22 / H+N MPLS
NADA Miami 2021 // Cameron Patricia Downey, Moises Salazar Tlatenchi, Rachel Collier
The Human Scale // H+N curated group show at Rochester Art Center // 2021
CAMERON DOWNEY CURATED EVENT // Holding Space // H+N MPLS // 2020
FUTUREFUTURE // 2020 Group Show // 1.18.20 – 2.23.20 // H+N MPLS
HAIRandNAILS at 9 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn // Group show // 5.5.19 – 6.16.19
