Cameron Martin’s paintings and collages feature overlapping and undulating forms in varying transparencies, patterns, and geometries, producing visual phenomena that tap into histories of non-objective art and present-day digital interfaces. Using a vivid chromatic palette, Martin uses techniques that intentionally complicate the distinction between the handmade and the mechanical, working from the foundation of abstraction towards the possibilities of representation.
Martin received his BA from Brown University and continued his studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum, the Saint Louis Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and City Gallery (Wellington, New Zealand). His work is included in the public collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. Martin is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2010), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship (2008), and the Artists at Giverny Fellowship and Residency (2001). He is the F. H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.