Photo by Thomas Dunn
Kameron Neal is an artist and designer working in video, installation, and performance. He is currently a Public Artist in Residence in NYC’s Department of Records where he created Down the Barrel (of a Lens), an archival film installation about NYPD surveillance that has been exhibited at Brooklyn Army Terminal and Lincoln Center. Kameron received a Lucille Lortel and a Henry Hewes Design Award for Outstanding Projection Design for his work on Ryan J. Haddad’s Dark Disabled Stories at The Public Theater and The Bushwick Starr. He has also received awards from the Princess Grace Foundation and NYSCA/NYFA in Digital/Electronic Arts. As an artist in residence at ALL ARTS and MAXMachina, Kameron is developing Whiteness, an immersive 360° video cantata about the silliness and anxieties of skin color in collaboration with composer Paul Pinto. In 2020, he co-created MukhAgni with Shayok Misha Chowdhury, an irreverent multimedia performance memoir about death that was presented at The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival. Kameron’s work has been featured in music videos and performances by Billy Porter and Rufus Wainwright. Kameron’s work has also been seen in The New York Times, Forbes, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, HYPEBEAST and presented at a variety of institutions including BAM, Ars Nova, SohoRep, CultureHub, Institute for Electronic Arts, Digital Graffiti, New Orleans Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Williams College Museum of Art and Sound Scene at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum. Kameron has taught and guest lectured at Williams College, NYU ITP/IMA, and Carnegie Mellon.