Camille J. Gage


Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1996
Women’s Art Institute at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2000


Selected Exhibitions and Arts Activities

2020

When the cry is "Justice!", billboard created for Art Connects Us project of Hennepin Theater Trust and Clear Channel. Created with David Grant. 

2019

Fierce Lament, the book, published by RedBird Chapbooks 

2018

Whisked: Cooking Up Community

2017 

Walk of Remembrance public art installation, created for MN Aids Project, with Liseli Polivka, Rosie Kimball and Brent Lehman. 

Fierce Lament Big Green Dance Party

2016

Fierce Lament, curator and artist, Form + Content Gallery. www.fiercelament.org 

Women and Money, group exhibition, Katherine Nash Gallery

2015

Trinity Gallery, Cleveland, OH, I AM WATER 

2014
Commons Gallery, Institute on the Environment, U of M, I AM WATER
MN Creates, curator,  art exhibition at the MN State Capitol
Catherine G. Muprhy Gallery, College of St Catherine, How to be a Feminist Artist group exhibition. 

2013
Form + Content Gallery, The Valediction featuring I AM WATER

2012
Creative CityMaking Finalist, City of Minneapolis/Intermedia Arts
Nobel Peace Prize Forum presenter: Illustrating the Cost of War: artists
respond to a decade of conflict (with Susanne Slavick, Carnegie Mellon)

2011
Quarter Gallery at Regis Center for the Arts, Navigating the Aftermath, group show
Wee Cabaret at Form + Content Gallery, curator and producer
United Theologial Seminary, Seeing the Common Good, group show
Dreams and Effigies, Form + Content Gallery, two person show

2010
Blue Mountain Center, NY, Residency Fellowship

2009
Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Calling All Angels

2008
Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, The Presence of Loss, solo show
Weisman Art Museum, guest blogger
Form + Content Gallery, co- curator (with Colleen Sheehy), Party Party in a Tweety Land b/w This Republic of Suffering

2007
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, War, Mediated, MAEP Gallery, 3 person show
Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Critical Translations, group show
Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Trace Elements, group show

2006
Concordia College, St. Paul, MN, with Lisa Loudon
Institute for Health & Healing Gallery, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Mpls, MN solo show
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, HOME/House Project, group show
John Marshall High School, Rochester, MN, arts residency

2005
Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, War & Peace, with Kate Pabst
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Home Sweet Home Again group show

2004
Cornucopia Art Center, Lanesboro, MN, American Visions, solo show
College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN, GEMS : Women’s Art Institute group show
Jerome Foundation Residency: Cornucopia Art Center, Lanesboro, MN
Intermedia Arts, Institute for Community Cultural Development, 2004 Fellowship

2003
Gazzuolo Gallery, North Hennepin Community College, with Mary Bergs

2002
University of Minnesota, Morris, MN, Women’s Art Invitational, group show

2001
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Involved group show
Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI, Alchemy, Amulets and Altars, group show

2000
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN 2D 2000 Biennial, group show
Family Housing Fund Home Sweet Home touring show

1999
College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, Uncommon Threads, group show

1997
College of St. Catherine, Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota’s 18th Annual group show
Walker Art Center: October “Free First Saturday” family art activity, in conjunction Joseph Beuys exhibit

1996
Minneapolis College of Art & Design BFA show
(Attended Minneapolis College of Art & Design, 1991 to 1996)

1990
Coffman Memorial Union Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Hidden Agenda: Politics of the Dispossessed; invitational group show

1989
Various locations, Minneapolis, MN The Billboard Project; FORECAST Public Art project

1988
Women’s Art Registry of MN Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Home Is Where The Heart Is, mixed media show and presentation


Grants and Awards

2004
Family Housing Fund “Home Sweet Home Again” art invitational commission

2000
Family Housing Fund “Home Sweet Home” art invitational commission

1990
Southern Theatre Overtones Series commission

1989
FORECAST Public Art Affairs grant for temporary outdoor artworks

1988
Intermedia Arts Grant for Interdisciplinary Artists



Music and Performance

2008
Founded the Minneapolis band, Truant Lovers.

1990
Wrote, produced and was a featured performer in Operation Hightop, a mixed media investigation of the war on drugs. Presented by the Southern Theater.

1988
Founding member of Twin Cities performance ensemble, The Radio Kings.

Produced, directed and was a featured performer in “Dads”, a mixed media revue on contemporary fatherhood presented by the Walker Art Center

1983
Founding member of Minneapolis-based band, Tetes Noires. Wrote and recorded three albums. Toured United States and Canada, including performances at the Bottom Line, CBGB’s, Folk City, the Walker Art Center and the World Theatre. The band’s final album, released on Rounder Records in 1987, was named one of the ten best albums of 1987 by the Miami Herald. (1983 through 1998)

Collections

Weisman Art Museum
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minnesota Historical Society
Carleton College Art Collection
Family Housing Fund
Boston Scientific
Hennepin County Libraries, Ridgedale branch

Galleries

Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Cornucopia Art Center, Lanesboro, Minnesota
Waters of Superior Gallery, Duluth, Minnesota

Articles Published

Weisman Art Museum blog
mnartists.org blog
On The Commons
Star Tribune
Utne Reader
Women’s Press
Art Paper