Elaine Cameron-Weir

Elaine Cameron-Weir's sculptures seamlessly integrate transient components such as flame, scent, and illumination with materials like metal, glass, concrete, and stone.

Biography of Elaine Cameron-Weir

Elaine Cameron-Weir was born in Alberta, Canada, in 1985. In 2007, she received her BFA in Drawing from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Later, in 2010, the artist completed studies in Studio Art at New York University Steinhardt School, obtaining an MFA.

Throughout her artistic career, Cameron-Weir received numerous grants. Among them are the Visual Arts Project Grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (2011), the Travel Grants to Professionals in the Visual Arts from the Canada Council (2011 and 2018), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2018), and the Project Grant from the Canada Council (2021).

Her recent solo exhibitions include "Exploded View / Dressing for Windows" at Hannah Hoffman in Los Angeles (2022), "Dressing for Windows (Exploded View) or ‘everywhere I go people know the part I’m playing" at the SCAD Museum of Ar in Savannah (2022), "STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH" at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle (2021), "strings that show the wind" at JTT in New York (2019), and many more.

Elaine Cameron-Weir's works have been featured in group exhibitions worldwide, including "THIS IS HARDCORE" at Sadie Coles HQ in London (2023), "The Milk of Dreams" at the 59th International Art Exhibition in Venice (2022), "New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century" at BAMPFA in Berkeley (2021), "Hooks and Claws" at Galerie Gregor Staiger in Zürich (2020), among others. 

Elaine Cameron-Weir's Art Style

Elaine Cameron-Weir's art draws inspiration from the diverse systems and structures that humanity has devised to grapple with the unknown, spanning scientific inquiry, religion, and creative expression.

Her sculptures intricately weave together partial objects repurposed from scientific, medical, military, or religious contexts, transforming them into reliquaries or symbols of broader belief systems and power dynamics. These assemblages blend found fragments with meticulously crafted elements, employing techniques ranging from vitreous enameling and glass casting to metalworking and leather tooling. Often suspended from ceilings, these installations appear to defy gravity yet are anchored by a network of pulleys and cables.

Through symmetrical details, her works create uncanny reflections, underscoring the dualistic essence inherent in narratives and narrators. While her practice defies simple categorization or symbolic interpretation, Cameron-Weir's creations offer glimpses of passage through portals or across thresholds, facilitating transitions between states of being.