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Donna Cameron
is the author of an extensive body of work
which includes oil paintings,
watercolors, photos, films, videos and CD-ROMs,
and has been an exhibiting visual artist since 1970. Her
paper emulsion films
have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art,
NY Dept. of Film & Media
(1990-CURRENT). Her current installation work explores the
relationship of the
traditional image to the digital frame, and the function of an image
within the
framework of inter-media. She has been an educator since 1969, and has
taught
and lectured at NYU (1992-CURRENT) and the School of Visual Arts, NY
(1998-2000).
Cameron is
the 1998-1999 Elodie Osborne Fellow of Film & Video, and has been
awarded
three MacDowell fellowships (1997, 1998, and 1999) and two
Jerome fellowships
(1988, 1992)
for her imaging work in painting & drawing on film. Her
work
is distributed by the MoMA
Circulating Film & Video Library, which is THE
library used by film scholars worldwide, and
is in included in collections at
NYU (1995); Anthology Film Archives (1981); Pacific Film
Archive (1991); The
Donnell Library (1998), and Fordham University (2000). Cameron has
collaborated
with filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1987), performance artist Jack Smith
(1985-6),
dancer/choreographers Oleo Pomare (1996) and Nanette
Bearden (1996), with
musicians
Don Militello (1991,1996), Mark Stewart (2003), Fred
Kaufman (1997),
Barbara Siesel (1995,97),
painter Dr. Vivienne Thaul-Wechter (1995-2000) and
others. She was included in the MoMA's
20th century retrospective of visual
art, "MoMA 2000, Making Choices, Part 2", in June, 2000,
and the 20th
century retrospective, “The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought:
Women in
Avante-Garde Film in America", 1944-2000, The Whitney
Museum of American
Art, NY, in
September, 2000.
In January,
2001, The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Cameron an
International Patent Allowance for her invention:
"Cinematic Paper
Emulsion".
Donna
Cameron is the recipient of many scholarships and is internationally
educated.
She began her studies at The Rhode Island School of Design
in painting and
drawing in the
early 1970s, branching out at RISD to animation and video.
With
a full scholarship she
completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago in 1980, with a focus in
photography and film and a minor focus in life
drawing. Rather than pursue a traditional MFA
in the programs at which she was
accepted at the Masters level, Cameron opted to design
her own course of
inter-disciplinary study, in order that she might develop her
invention, the
Cinematic Paper Emulsion. This included years of full time
study of landscape
painting in
Paris, France in the early 1980s at Atelier Herbo, the
private
studio school of the late
post-impressionist master Ferdinand Herbo, who at
that time was noted as chief marine landscape
painter of France; the Art
Students League of New York, 1984-86, where she was twice the
recipient of the
Jose de Creeft Memorial award for painting; at the Sorbonne (French,
Art
History);
video at The American Center, Paris; photography at the
International
Center of Photography (NY).
Cameron is
a Senior Editor of Manhattan Arts International Magazine
(1995-CURRENT).
(Now
on-line at manhattanarts.com).
She was previously the Florida Keys
Correspondent
for the Miami Herald; publishing credits include exhibit
catalogues for MoMA; Independent Film &
Video Monthly.
In 1997
Cameron was nominated to NYU's University Council of Arts Educators.
She is an
exhibiting member of the Federation of Modern Sculptors and
Painters of New
York. For seven
years, she has served on the Board of the New York Film
&
Video Council.
Donna
Cameron lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Many of her images are
inspired
by New
York City’s urban pulse: its people, buildings, rivers,
bridges, and by
the Hudson River School
inspired landscape of Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
AWARDS & PROFESSIONAL HONORS
2003 The Program for
Media Arts, Rockefeller Foundation Grant Nominee
2002 MoMA Film
Archive, acquisition of film, World Trade Alphabet, February
Museum of
the City of New York, acquisition of 9/11 footage for archive
2001 Patent Awarded,
U.S. Patent & Trademarks Commission for Cinematic Paper Emulsion
2000 Elodie Osborne
Award in Film & Video, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
MacDowell
Fellow, May
The Museum
of Modern Art, NY, video Shirley Clarke in Our Time selected
for
screening in MoMA 2000: Making Choices, Part 2, June
Whitney
Museum of American Art, NY, film Fauve shown in The Color of Ritual,
The
Color of
Thought, Women in Avant-Garde Film in America, 1944-2000, September
Fordham
University, acquisition of film paintings, Cherie & Peterborough
Forest
1999 MacDowell
Fellow, May
1998 New York Film
& Video Council, nominated to the Board, May
MacDowell
Fellow, June/July
MoMA Film
Archive, acquisition of film Die Honigbiene, September
1997 University
Council of Arts Educators, nominated to membership, February
Federation
of Modern Sculptors and Painters, nom. to membership, January
1996 MoMA Film
Archive, acquisition of 16mm film, NYC/Joshua Tree
New York
Film /Video Council's 50th Anniversary Celebration, MoMA, NY,
Video
MOTHER'S PRAYER selected to represent the 1990s
1995 Black Maria
Film Festival, Jurors' Citation Award for the film Autumn Leaves
1994 Black Maria
Film Festival, Jurors' Choice Award for the film NYC/Joshua Tree
1992 Films &
Videos promoted by MOMA Circulating Film & Video Library
1991 Museum
of Modern Art Film Archive, acquisition of films, TYGER TYGER &
Fauve
1990 Jerome
Foundation Grant & Fellow
1987 Jerome
Foundation Grant & Fellow
1985 Jose De Creef
Memorial Award for painting, The Art Students League, NY, NY
1984 Jose De Creef
Memorial Award for painting, The Art Students League, NY, NY
San
Francisco Cinemateque, Highlights of the Year for the film, Unicorn,
SF, CA
1980 American
Academy of Motion Pictures, Animation Division, NEWSW, Chicago, IL, May
1978 Cannes
Film Festival, screening of film, Magnet, Cannes, France, May
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The MacDowell Colony Collection NY, NY (film paintings)
Museum of Modern Art, Film & Video Archive, NY
(films
& videos)
Museum of Modern Art, Circulating Film & Video
Library,
NY (film paintings, films & videos)
Museum of the City of New York, NY (films & videos)
Museum of Broadcast and Television, NY
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The Donnell Media Center, NY Public Library, NY (films
&
videos)
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA (films &
videos)
Light Cone, Paris, France (films & videos)
Anthology Film Archives, NY
Elmer Bobst Library, Avery Fisher Media Center, NYU,
NY
(films & videos)
Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA (films &
videos)
Fordham
University, NY (film paintings)
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