Cameron Rowland
Cameron Rowland | |
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Rowland speaking at Columbia University in 2020 | |
| Born | 1988 (age 37–38) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University (BA) |
| Notable work | New York State Unified Court System (2016) Depreciation (2018) |
| Style | Conceptual art |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
Cameron Rowland (born 1988) is an American conceptual artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and acclaimed for its structural analytic approach to addressing issues of American slavery, mass incarceration, and reparations.
Rowland graduated from Wesleyan University in 2011 and they were awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 after several solo and group exhibitions at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunsthal Aarhus, and La Biennale de Montreal. Rowland is noted for their distinct method of loaning some works to collectors and institutions rather than selling them outright, an approach meant to mirror the experience of low-income people shopping at rent-to-own stores like Rent-A-Center and disrupt the traditional value structure in the contemporary art market.