Cameron Platter BIOGRAPHY
Artist Biography
Biography page for Cameron Platter ((Born 1978)), known for Tapestry, paintings, sculpture, video exploring consumerist and pop culture themes with bold aesthetics.. Showing 2 biographical entries and 0 sample artworks.
Cameron Platter - Artist Info
About Cameron Platter
Biography from Strauss & Co Cape Town
While trained as a painter, Cameron Platter’s preferred mediums are drawing, sculpture, and film. His works are marked by their vivid colour palette, surreal humour, and recombinant visual style, which sutures together quotations from outdoor advertising, tabloid newspapers, TV culture, and art history – notably the work of artist John Muafangejo. Platter’s art explores themes of power, faith, security, sex, and consumption. His large-scale drawings, each painstakingly produced with Faber-Castell pencils, have been a mainstay of his practice since his debut solo exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, in 2005.
Platter has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA, USA; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Dakar Biennale, and the Venice Biennale. His work is included in the permanent collection of institutions such as MoMA; Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town; and Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Biography from Bonhams Bond Street
Cameron Platter, born in 1978 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is a versatile artist working across mediums such as tapestry, paintings, sculpture, and video. His dynamic and striking works incorporate bold aesthetics inspired by advertising campaigns to delve into themes like consumerism, pop culture, power, and social structures. Platter's art often carries a level of implied irony or humor, shedding light on overlooked aspects of everyday life. His works have been showcased at prestigious institutions like the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and San Francisco, the Venice and Dakar Biennales, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Additionally, his art is part of permanent collections at the South African National Gallery, Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, FRAC des Pays de la Loire in France, and the Margulies Collection and MoMA in the US.