Aurora, 2024
Kameo Chambers (Philadelphia, PA) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work examines the tensions between autonomy, control, and selfhood in hyperreality. Chambers works across film/video, AR/VR, installation, sculpture, and performance to challenge how the Black femme body is mediated, disembodied, and commodified by systems of power. Through the insertion of her body and voice into the work, her practice reimagines objectivity and visibility, investigating the body as both material and asset, while critiquing the boundaries between the organic and synthetic.
Her work has been exhibited at Kungliga Musikhögskolan (Sweden), Cultural DC, The Institute of Electronic Arts (NY), TSI/Harland Snodgrass Gallery (NY), the Andy Warhol Museum (PA), and the University of Pittsburgh (PA), among others. She has received awards, grants, and distinctions, including the Vira I. Heinz Scholarship and First Place with Special Merit from the American Scholastic Press Association (2021–22). Her work is in the collection of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, and has recently completed a residency at the Keyes Residency (ME). Chambers holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and is pursuing an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts at Alfred University.