United States
Arkansas 1992
Cameron Clayborn (b.1992, Pine Bluff, AR) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture, drawing, and performance. Clayborn’s practice is deeply informed by their personal experiences, with much of their work addressing themes of heritage, fragility of memory, grief, and healing.
Clayborn earned their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and their MFA from Yale University School of Art. Clayborn’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), Woonhuis (Amsterdam, NL), Gallery 400 University of Illinois Chicago (Chicago, IL), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, DE), Simone Subal Gallery (New York, NY), Moran Moran (Los Angeles, CA), Chapter NY (New York, NY), Emalin (London, UK), TONE (Memphis, TN), among others. Their work has received press and coverage in publications such as ArtReview, New York Times, Hyperallergic, and Tagesspiegel.
Clayborn has been a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship (2023) and awarded the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel Statements (2021). They have also participated in residencies at Surf Point Foundation (2023), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2018), Hyde Park Art Center (2018), and ACRE (2016). They have been a Teaching Fellow at Yale Norfolk (2024) and invited to lecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lehigh University, University of the Arts Philadelphia, and Wesleyan University.
Their work is in the permanent collections of Hirshhorn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), Studio Museum in Harlem, Hamburger Bahnhof, and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).
Clayborn currently lives and works in Maine with their partner and cat.
