Elaine Cameron-Weir
(Born) | 1985 in Alberta, Canada |
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(Based) | New York, NY, USA |

Elaine Cameron-Weir’s sculptures blend ephemeral elements like flame, smell, and light with materials including metal, glass, concrete, and stone. They can resemble surgical tools, lab apparatus, torture devices, fetish instruments, military equipment, or medieval armor, balancing protection, pleasure, and suffering in an uneasy way. Element imprints of body traces serve to heighten the physical impression of the works.
Past solo exhibitions were held at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA USA; Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH USA; Dortmund Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany; rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium; White Flag Library, St. Louis, MO USA; Ramiken Crucible, NY, USA; Possible Projects, Philadelphia, PA USA.
She presented works in group shows such as The Milk of Dreams, The 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy; New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA USA ; The Dreamers, 58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale 2021, Belgrade, Serbia; Mississippi, organized by Sam Korman, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy; in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA, at Frieze Projects (outdoor sculpture), New York, NY, USA; Khar Pidda – A Tribute, Flash Art NY Desk, New York, NY USA; and many more.
Her work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA USA; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN USA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, CA USA; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA USA; and Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK, CA USA
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(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) strings that show the wind (Year) 2019 (Institution) JTT (Location) New York, NY, USA; Photo by Isabel Asha Penzlien -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) it thought you were someone else it thought you were me bounded by strings in the distorted phases of a topological superfluid a mysterious density half-speed vortices and long walls (Year) 2019 (medium) concrete, liquid candles, glass, stainless steel, leather, neon (Dimensions) 115.57h x 81.28w x 78.74d cm;
45.50h x 32w x 31d in(Edition) Photo by Isabel Asha Penzlien -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) strings that show the wind (Year) 2019 (Institution) JTT (Location) New York, NY, USA; Photo by Isabel Asha Penzlien -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) strings that show the wind (Year) 2019 (Institution) JTT (Location) New York, NY, USA; Photo by Isabel Asha Penzlien -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) strings that show the wind (Year) 2019 (Institution) JTT (Location) New York, NY, USA; Photo by Isabel Asha Penzlien -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) III: HeavyShield, Knowles, Cameron-Weir (Year) 2018 (Institution) Remai Modern (Location) Saskatoon, Canada -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) III: HeavyShield, Knowles, Cameron-Weir (Year) 2018 (Institution) Remai Modern (Location) Saskatoon, Canada -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) III: HeavyShield, Knowles, Cameron-Weir (Year) 2018 (Institution) Remai Modern (Location) Saskatoon, Canada -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) III: HeavyShield, Knowles, Cameron-Weir (Year) 2018 (Institution) Remai Modern (Location) Saskatoon, Canada -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) III: HeavyShield, Knowles, Cameron-Weir (Year) 2018 (Institution) Remai Modern (Location) Saskatoon, Canada -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) Outlooks: Elaine Cameron-Weir (Year) 2018 (Institution) Storm King Art Center (Location) New York, NY USA -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) Outlooks: Elaine Cameron-Weir (detail) (Year) 2018 (Institution) Storm King Art Center (Location) New York, NY USA -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) ELAINE CAMERON-WEIR exhibit from a dripping personal collection (Year) 2018 (Institution) Dortmund Kunstverein (Location) Dortmund, Germany -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Untitled (Year) 2018 (medium) Leather, silk, stainless steel -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) Elaine Cameron-Weir: viscera has questions about itself (Year) 2017 (Institution) New Museum (Location) New York, NY USA -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) viscera has questions about itself it pushed the corner of the room down from behind so that it could not move and delivered the following message: it are now an erogenous zone. In altered-state subcutanean tantric the skingrip palpable, it (Year) 2017 (medium) Stainless steel, aluminum, pewter, hardware, rawhide, and sandbags (Dimensions) Overall Dimensions (dimensions variable): 167.6 x 113 x 5.1 cm;
66 x 44.5 x 2 in -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) Elaine Cameron-Weir: viscera has questions about itself (Year) 2017 (Institution) New Museum (Location) New York, NY USA -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Lamp with Garment / Vault (Year) 2017 (medium) Stainless steel, laboratory hardware, neon, transformer, and parachute silk / Stainless steel, dental phantom, rawhide, laboratory hardware, heating mantle, transformer, glass, and labdanum resin (Dimensions) 188 x 38.1 x 27.9 cm, 74 x 15 x 11 in each -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Lamp with Garment / Vault (detail) (Year) 2017 (medium) Stainless steel, laboratory hardware, neon, transformer, and parachute silk / Stainless steel, dental phantom, rawhide, laboratory hardware, heating mantle, transformer, glass, and labdanum resin (Dimensions) 188 x 38.1 x 27.9 cm, 74 x 15 x 11 in each -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) Le Grand Balcon (Year) 2016 (Institution) La Biennale de Montreal (Location) Montreal, Canada -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) (detail), Le Grand Balcon (Year) 2016 (Institution) La Biennale de Montreal (Location) Montreal, Canada -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) Pièces-meublés (Year) 2016 (Institution) Galerie Patrick Seguin (Location) Paris, France -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Snake Piece 1 (Year) 2016 (medium) stainless steel, enamel, copper, sand bags (Dimensions) 426 x 32 x 2 cm -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) 13th Triennial of small-scale sculpture (Year) 2016 (Institution) Alte Kelter (Location) Fellbach, Germany -
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(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) man has never been alone in the universe but is being constantly revisited by himself from the future in his renewed form via evolutionary time travel. Cryptomnesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original. He began to have a second recurring dream in which he was a woman, an artist. (Year) 2015 (medium) Brass, alabaster (Dimensions) 213.4 x 101.6 x 86.4 cm (Reference) ECWe041 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) monstera (Year) 2014 (medium) Brass, sandstone (Dimensions) 261 x 110 x 55 cm (adjustable height) (Reference) ECWe028 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) so whatever impressions this unconscious inference leads to, they strike "our consciousness as a foreign and overpowering force of nature" (Year) 2014 (medium) Brass, alabaster (Dimensions) 256 x 135 x 130 cm (adjustable height) (Reference) ECWe033 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) a day dream about the authority of a heavy desk, about other vocations spent behind one ordering certain men around, about domineering and maybe reclining slowly, exhaling (Year) 2014 (medium) terrazzo, stainless steel, laboratory hardware, neon lights, transformers, paraffin lamps, mica, frankincense, sterling silver Tiffany dish (Dimensions) 70 x 150 x 75 cm (Reference) ECWe039 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) venus anadyomene (Year) 2014 (Institution) Ramiken Crucible (Location) New York, NY USA -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) venus anadyomene 1 (detail) (Year) 2014 (medium) clam, neon, transformer, ceramic, olive oil, mica, wick, sand, incense, brass, chain (Dimensions) clam: 34 x 71 x 56 cm;
13.5 x 28 x 22 in; brass rod: dimensions variable -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) Medusa (Year) 2014 (Institution) Cleveland Museum of Art (Location) Cleveland, OH USA -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Exhibition) Medusa (Year) 2014 (Institution) Cleveland Museum of Art (Location) Cleveland, OH USA -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) that which resembles the sun and belongs to my brother rose up into the higher atmosphere (Year) 2014 (medium) Brass, Marble (Dimensions) 243.8 x 28 x 20 cm (adjustable height) (Reference) ECWe026 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Timekeeping Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations? (Year) 2013 (medium) limestone, brass (Dimensions) 23 x 84 x 7 cm (Reference) ECWe024 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Corsage, Night Light (Year) 2013 (medium) Neon light, textile (Dimensions) 46.5 x 6 x 4.7 cm (Reference) ECWe017 -
(Exhibition) Elaine Cameron-Weir and Sam Moyer (Year) 2013 (Gallery) rodolphe janssen (Location) Brussels, Belgium -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Plate 21 (Year) 2012 (medium) Aluminium (Dimensions) 50.5 x 30.4 x 2 cm (Reference) ECWe006 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Plate 22 (Year) 2012 (medium) Aluminium (Dimensions) 50.5 x 30.4 x 2 cm (Reference) ECWe007 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) flanking bamboo, empty boot (Year) 2013 (medium) Brass, concrete (Dimensions) 213 x ø25 cm (Reference) ECWe018 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Lamp (Year) 2012 (medium) Brass, birch tar oil (Dimensions) 253.5 x 25 cm (Reference) ECWe015 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Miami (Year) 2013 (medium) neon light, sand, acrylic tube, coconut aldehyde c-18 (Reference) ECWe020 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Untitled (Small Column) (Year) 2011 -
(Artist) Elaine Cameron-Weir (Title) Blue Black, (Year) 2011 (medium) wood, paint, concrete, coconut oil