Bio:
Cameron Barker (he/they) sharing his time between New York, Boston and New Haven is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work centers around visibility of queer intimacy. Born in Longmont, Colorado, Barker received a BA in art education from The University of Northern Colorado and a MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. As a queer Jew, Barker has been interested in destabilizing cultural systems that force communities to engage in closeting to avoid persecution. His work has been shown internationally, implementing Western traditional rendering techniques and materials, such as the Bargue Drawing Method, intaglio printmaking methods and metalpoint, to represent queer bodies which have been historically absent from these practices. Barker has been recognized as a Post-Graduate fellow in curation at Tufts University, a Massachusetts Cultural Council's Artist Fellow, an awardee of the Room 68 Artist residency (Provincetown MA), the Maisonette Queer Artist Residency in (San Francisco CA), and a Stone Hill Press Printmaking Residency in (Woburn MA). He is a visiting lecturer at Yale University and editor of the Boston Printmakers Quarterly with print editions represented by Caira Editions.
Cameron Barker (he/they) sharing his time between New York, Boston and New Haven is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work centers around visibility of queer intimacy. Born in Longmont, Colorado, Barker received a BA in art education from The University of Northern Colorado and a MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. As a queer Jew, Barker has been interested in destabilizing cultural systems that force communities to engage in closeting to avoid persecution. His work has been shown internationally, implementing Western traditional rendering techniques and materials, such as the Bargue Drawing Method, intaglio printmaking methods and metalpoint, to represent queer bodies which have been historically absent from these practices. Barker has been recognized as a Post-Graduate fellow in curation at Tufts University, a Massachusetts Cultural Council's Artist Fellow, an awardee of the Room 68 Artist residency (Provincetown MA), the Maisonette Queer Artist Residency in (San Francisco CA), and a Stone Hill Press Printmaking Residency in (Woburn MA). He is a visiting lecturer at Yale University and editor of the Boston Printmakers Quarterly with print editions represented by Caira Editions.
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