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19 February 2024

Elaine Cameron-Weir

Originally from Canada and now based in New York City, artist Elaine Cameron-Weir largely focuses her practice on sculpture and installation. These works are primarily made up of parts from objects—objects common to scientific, military, or medical settings, or even related to religious purposes—that are repurposed and arranged into sculptural amalgamations that touch on ideas around man-made structures, both metaphoric and literal.

In 2018, Cameron-Weir was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the same year she was made the subject of a solo show at Storm King Art Center, “Outlooks,” curated by Nora Lawrence. The year 2022 was also marked by two significant exhibitions, including a solo exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, and inclusion in the 59th Venice Biennale.

Formerly represented by JTT Gallery, last month, Lisson Gallery announced it was now representing Cameron-Weir. On view March 7–April 13, 2024, the artist’s solo show “A WAY OF LIFE” will be her debut with the gallery. Here, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, harbingers of end times, will serve as a central motif and touchstone of her debut show, alluding to political extremes and underlying societal structures that propel us.