Elaine Cameron-Weir (born 1985 in Alberta, Canada) is a contemporary visual artist known for her industrial and conceptually driven sculptural practice. [1] [2] [3] [4] As of 2024, she currently lives and works in New York City. [5] [6]
Elaine Cameron-Weir was born in Alberta, Canada in 1985. [7]
Cameron-Weir received an BFA in Drawing from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2007. [8] She received an MFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2010. [9] [10]
Cameron-Weir has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions including “exhibit from a dripping personal collection” at Dortmunder Kunstverein in Dortmund, Germany [11] [12] , “viscera has questions about itself” at New Museum in New York, NY [13] [14] [15] , “Dressing for Windows (Exploded View)” at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA [16] [17] , “STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH” at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA [18] [19] , and “Outlooks: Elaine Cameron-Weir” at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, NY [20] [21] [22] . In 2023, Cameron-Weir was also commissioned by the Celine Art Project to create a sculpture for Celine’s Miami Flagship store. [23] [24]
Her work has also been featured in major group exhibitions such as the Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale [25] [26] [27] , “New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century” at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at University of California Berkeley [28] [29] , “Present Tense” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2019) [30] [31] , as well as the Belgrade Biennale, Serbia (2021) [32] , the Montreal Biennial, Canada (2017) [33] , and the Fellbach Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture, Germany (2016) [34] .