Cameron Platter
Cameron Platter (born 1978) is a South African contemporary visual artist.
Cameron Platter
- Name
- Cameron Platter
- Born
- 1978
- Nationality
- South Africa.
- Occupation
- artist, printmaker, painter and sculptor.
- Education
- University of Cape Town and Michaelis School of Fine Art.
- Languages
- English.
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Cameron Platter (born 1978) is a South African contemporary visual artist.
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• Name — Cameron Platter • Born — 1978 • Website — cameronplatter.com Cameron Platter (born 1978) is a South African contemporary visual artist.
Work
Work
His work has been described as "unorthodox", "the delinquent love child of Quentin Tarantino and Dr Seuss" and where "the bizarreness of everyday life comes together in an expression unashamedly unforgiving, yet deeply observant". Examples are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the FRAC des Pays de la Loire in France; the Iziko South African National Gallery; the Margulies Collection in Miami, Florida; the Zeitz Collection in South Africa; and the New Church Collection in South Africa.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Exhibitions include: • U-saved-me, Depart Foundation, Los Angeles (2016) • Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2017) • Imaginary Fact, Contemporary South African Art and the Archive, 55th Venice Biennale (2013) • De Leur Temps, Musee des Beaux-arts de Nantes (2013) • Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011) • Les Rencontres Internationales, Palais de Tokyo (2014) and the Centre Georges Pompidou (2010), Paris; Le Biennale de Dakar 2010, Dakar, Senegal • Coca- Colonization, Marte Museum, El Salvador; • Absent Heroes and Brave New World... 20 Years of Democracy, Iziko South African National Gallery.
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1978
Cameron Platter was born on 1 January 1978.
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- 1."Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now" - artforum.com / critics' picks. artforum.com.
- 2.A R T T H R O B _ R E V I E W S _ C A P E. www.artthrob.co.za.
- 3.Everyday but far from the obvious. The M&G Online.
- 4.Fang, Alexander. Spotlight: Cameron Platter in Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now. Inside Out. MoMA. 25 April 2011.
- 5.The New Church Museum. thenewchurch.co.
- 6.Projects > Depart Foundation. www.departfoundation.org.
- 7.Venice Biennale 2013: An imperfect past ?and its impact on the present. The M&G Online.
- 8.YBCA. www.ybca.org.
- 9.South African artists announced for participation in Venice Biennale. Art South Africa.
- 10.Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes: Expositions à venir. www.museedesbeauxarts.nantes.fr.
- 11.MoMA Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now. www.moma.org.
- 12.MoMA Category: Impressions from South Africa. www.moma.org.
- 13.The Power of Happiness: Cameron Platter's Impressions from South Africa. www.moma.org.
- 14.LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES new cinema and contemporary art. www.art-action.org.
- 15.Coca-colonized. MARTE-C.
- 16.May 2011: Coca-Colonized at the Museum of Art (MARTE Museum) in San Salvador El Salvador Claire Breukel. clairebreukel.com.
- 17.Event View - Calendar – Iziko Museums. www.iziko.org.za.
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Cameron Platter is recorded with the occupation printmaker. Recorded as artist, printmaker, painter and sculptor. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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