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Elaine Cameron-Weir

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]

Early life

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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. She received an MFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2010.[3]

Career

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Cameron-Weir has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions including "exhibit from a dripping personal collection" at Dortmunder Kunstverein in Dortmund, Germany,[3][8] "viscera has questions about itself" at New Museum in New York, New York,[9][10][11] "Dressing for Windows (Exploded View)" at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia,[12][13] "STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH" at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington,[14][15] and "Outlooks: Elaine Cameron-Weir" at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York.[16][17][18] In 2023, Cameron-Weir was also commissioned by the Celine Art Project to create a sculpture for Celine's Miami Flagship store.[19][20]

Her work has also been featured in major group exhibitions such as the Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale,[21][1][22] "New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century" at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at University of California Berkeley,[23][15] "Present Tense" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2019),[24][25] as well as the Belgrade Biennale, Serbia (2021),[26] the Montreal Biennial, Canada (2017),[27] and the Fellbach Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture, Germany (2016).[28]

Work

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In her practices, Elaine Cameron-Weir grapples with questions of individual and collective human survival, while also considering the potential for renewal and transformation in states of being and forms of knowledge.[29] Her work is informed by belief systems that structure how people make sense of and meaning in the world, from science and religion to nationalism.[22] Symmetry, sleekness, and industrial materials define Cameron-Weir's sculptures.[3] Her sculptures incorporate objects repurposed from their scientific, medical, military, or faith-giving function into reliquaries or representations of larger systems of belief and power. Materials can also be ephemeral, incorporating heat, light and scent, suggesting transformative processes.[30][31][32] Cameron-Weir’s integration of scents into her artwork often calls upon their meanings in a greater cultural memory, choosing scents such as frankincense, labdanum, and myrrh, that evoke rich histories, ritual, and myth.[33][22]

Cameron-Weir has an established parallel writing practice in step with her artworks. Her writing often serves as a preparatory sketch, poetic prose or found “raw text” culled from various sources, establishing a source from which the artworks and often their titles, spring forth from. [34][35] Cameron-Weir’s writing has been published in collaboration with Camden Arts Centre, Kunsthall Bergen, Dortmunder Kunstverein, and White Flag Library as well as in publications such as Flash Art and The Happy Hypocrite.

Public collections

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References

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  1. 1 2 "Elaine Cameron-Weir "A WAY OF LIFE" Lisson Gallery / New York |". Flash Art. 2024-04-02. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  2. ↑ Karp-Evans, Elizabeth (2019-11-26). "Elaine Cameron-Weir Tells Stories with Sculpture". Cultured Magazine. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Elaine Cameron-Weir on Halves, Pairs, and Symmetry". ARTnews.com. 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  4. ↑ "Elaine Cameron-Weir: STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH". e-flux. 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  5. ↑ "Elaine Cameron-Weir's Doomsday Delight at Lisson Gallery". ocula.com. 2025-09-18. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  6. ↑ "Galerie Rodolphe Janssen" Archived 2014-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, Artforum, Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  7. ↑ Bozicnik, Nina (2021-04-03). "Elaine Cameron-Weir: STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH - Henry Art Gallery". henryart.org. Retrieved 2021-11-01.[non-primary source needed]
  8. ↑ "Elaine Cameron-Weir, futuristic alchemist". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  9. ↑ "Elaine Cameron-Weir: viscera has questions about itself". New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  10. ↑ "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week (Published 2017)". 2017-08-17. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  11. ↑ Lambert, Tiffany (2017-06-16). "Elaine Cameron-Weir Brings Her Armor to New Museum". Cultured Mag. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  12. ↑ "(Exploded View) or 'everywhere I go people know the part I'm playing' | SCAD Museum of Art". www.scadmoa.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  13. ↑ "These 5 Artists Are Redefining New York's Art Scene". Artnet News. 2024-02-14. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  14. ↑ "Elaine Cameron-Weir: STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH - Henry Art Gallery". henryart.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  15. 1 2 Cameron-Weir, Elaine (2024-05-01). "ELAINE CAMERON-WEIR". Artforum. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  16. ↑ "Elaine Cameron-Weir". stormking.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  17. ↑ Zeiba, Drew (2018-10-12). "Artist brings a bomb shelter to New York's Storm King Art Center". The Architect’s Newspaper. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  18. ↑ Johnson, Grant (2018-07-31). "Elaine Cameron-Weir". Artforum. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  19. ↑ "ELAINE CAMERON-WEIR". www.celine.com. Archived from the original on 2025-08-23. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  20. ↑ "The New Celine Miami Flagship Emphasized Art as Much as Fashion". Artnet News. 2023-12-22. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  21. ↑ "Biennale Arte 2022 | Elaine Cameron-Weir". La Biennale di Venezia. 2022-03-25. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  22. 1 2 3 "Elaine Cameron-Weir in conversation with Jody Graf". CURA. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  23. ↑ "New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century". BAMPFA. 2020-08-17. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  24. ↑ "Present Tense: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art". philamuseum.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  25. 1 2 "Blue Black". philamuseum.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  26. ↑ "58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale 2021, presents The Dreamers". Biennial Foundation. 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  27. ↑ Phillips-Amos, Georgia. "The Defiant Beauty of Elaine Cameron-Weir at the New Museum". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  28. ↑ "13th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial 2016: FOOD – Ecologies of the Everyday - Announcements". e-flux. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  29. ↑ Wang, Hindley (2024-07-29). "Elaine Cameron-Weir: A WAY OF LIFE | The Brooklyn Rail". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2026-05-02.
  30. ↑ "CRY, SCREAM, DIE. Elaine Cameron-Weir |". Flash Art. 2025-01-23. Retrieved 2026-05-02.
  31. ↑ Liscia, Valentina Di (2024-08-19). "Elaine Cameron-Weir: strings that show the wind | The Brooklyn Rail". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2026-05-02.
  32. ↑ "Elaine Cameron-Weir". SCAD.edu. Retrieved 2026-05-02.
  33. ↑ Sharman, Lindsey (2025-07-15). "Sticky Meanings: Scent, power and the work of Elaine Cameron-Weir". BlackFlash Magazine. Retrieved 2026-05-02.
  34. ↑ Sharman, Lindsey (2025-07-15). "Sticky Meanings: Scent, power and the work of Elaine Cameron-Weir". BlackFlash Magazine. Retrieved 2026-05-02.
  35. ↑ "Works Cited: experiments in dismantling texts with Elaine Cameron-Weir – Publications". shop.henryart.org. Retrieved 2026-05-02.
  36. ↑ "Lauren Prousky talks Black Tie Soup Night". Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  37. ↑ "Fairfield University Art Museum | In Their Element(s)". Issuu. 2023-04-11. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  38. ↑ "Time Zones Radio Waves, 2012 Elaine Cameron-Weir". Hammer Collections.
  39. ↑ "Untitled". collections.remaimodern.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  40. ↑ "harem-wall". walkerart.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  41. ↑ "The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College Login". embarkweb1.campus.pomona.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  42. ↑ "Henry Art Gallery". collections.henryart.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
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