Online Residency 2023
Bio
Clayton Campbell is an artist and cultural producer whose practice includes various visual productions and digital art, arts writing, stage design, curating, arts administrator, and artist residency programming. He is based in Philadelphia, U.S. after many years in New York, Los Angeles, and abroad.
He has exhibited different series of photo based works in many settings including museums, galleries, art centers and community gathering spaces. His participatory public photography project, Words We Have Learned Since 9/11 was exhibited at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris; WYSPA Institute for Art; Gdansk Poland; International Center of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing; University of Capetown, South Africa; Unit 24 Gallery, London; Nam Jun Paik Center, South Korea; Higher Bridges Arts Center, Enniskellen, Northern Ireland; Museum of Mobile, Alabama; Los Angeles Museum of Art; the Wonder Institute, Santa Fe, and The Exploratorium, San Francisco.
Recent digital art projects have been featured since 2020 in online The Eye of Photography, Paris; exhibited in Atlas of Affects at Slought Gallery, Philadelphia; and South Devon College, UK. Currently he is organizing the publication of 7 volumes his collected works- 1967-2022. They will accompany the archive of his work and professional papers being established at Highlands University, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dedicated to working on behalf of artists and creative communities, between 1995-2010 Clayton was the Co-Executive and Artistic Director of the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica among several posts he has held over the years. He has consulted with the Rockefeller Bellagio Center, the Cleveland Foundation, the Rasmuson Foundation and United States Artists and designed artist programs for Otis College of art and Design, LA; the Center for the Art of Performance, UCLA; Little Tokyo Service Center; ARCAthens, Athens, Greece; and Fountainhead Residency, Miami. He has been awarded the distinction of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs for his work in the area of cultural exchange.
Since 1995 he has contributed numerous reviews, essays, and features to Flash Art Magazine, Artillery Magazine, Art Voices, ArtPresse, Res, Contemporary Magazine, THE Magazine, After Image, and Artblog.
Artist Statement
Throughout my visual practice I have focused on photo-based art making.
We live in a time of intense creative, spiritual, and social change. I respond to these transformations by making art about what happens when we find ourselves unexpectedly in extraordinary circumstances.
I have come to believe that the practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
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