An artist, writer, and filmmaker, Seth Cameron has long used exhibitions to set narrative forms against painting. In New Love, the essay revisits the years in which he became an artist. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2004 and that same year became a core member of The Bruce High Quality Foundation, a New York artists’ collective whose ironic skewering of art-world institutions brought it, ironically, to prominence. He remained with the collective through 2017. During those years, the collective participated in Greater New York at MoMA PS1, the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and the 2013 Lyon Biennale, and was the subject of a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013. Cameron also founded and led the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, a tuition-free educational initiative. He has taught at The Cooper Union, served as Critic-in-Residence at MICA’s Hoffberger School of Painting, and was Executive Director of the Children’s Museum of the Arts from 2020 to 2023.
Recent solo exhibitions include Good Dog at Nina Johnson, Miami; The Stranger and A Great Man, presented concurrently at Entrance Gallery, New York; and Storyteller at Seven Sisters, Houston. Born in South Carolina in 1982, Cameron lives and works in New York City and Connecticut.
