Cameron Platter

CAMERON PLATTER

Biography

Cameron Platter

b. 1978, Johannesburg, South Africa

Cameron Platter’s work in drawing, painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics, video, and the internet appropriates and filters, in a highly personal and idiosyncratic way, the enormous amount of information available today. Blurring the distinction between high and low, his postmodern and multi-disciplinary approach to art making, typically draws from sources as disparate as art history, ecology, psychedelics, fast food, advertising, therapy, collage, and consumerism.

He has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town (2022); Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2021); 1301PE, Los Angeles (2018); and Blank Projects, Cape Town (2017). Recent group exhibitions include The Bangkok Biennale (Chaos Calm), Bangkok, Thailand (2022); Tang Contemporary, Memory, Playfulness, and Stream of Consciousness, Hong Kong (2022); MoMA, New York, Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, (2011); Public Intimacy, SF MoMA, San Franciso (2013); Imaginary Fact, The South African Pavillion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); and and Le Biennale de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal (2010).

His work is part of the permanent collections of MoMA, New York, The Zietz MOCAA Collection, The Bass Museum of Art, The Margulies Collection, and the Iziko South African National Gallery. He was artist in residence for 2015 at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.

He has been featured in publications such as Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Vice Magazine, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, L’Officiel, Art Africa. He was included in Thames & Hudson’s “100 Sculptors of Tomorrow” (2019).

He lives and works in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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