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Camille Eskell exhibits her work extensively in solo and group shows throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Mexico and South America. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, such as the Hudson River Museum (NY), Chrysler Museum of Art (VA), Housatonic Museum of Art (CT), and Islip Art Museum (NY). She received an Artist Fellowship Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, as well as fellowships in drawing and painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, respectively.

Eskell has been featured in reviews and publications including The New York Times, CT Post, The Hartford Courant, Art New England, and the Huffington Post, and online journals Art Spiel, Posit 19 and Ante Mag. Now with a studio through the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, NY, her residencies include the Weir Farm National Historic Site and the Vermont Studio Center. Eskell holds an MFA from Queens College/CUNY and lives in the greater New York area.

Current shows include Tradition Interrupted, an international artist exhibition touring the U.S. from 2021 through 2024, slated to open at the Marion Art Gallery at SUNY Fredonia, NY, in August of this year. Recent exhibitions include (Re)Work It! Women Artists on Women’s Labor at the Mattatuck Museum (CT), Every Woman Biennial at La Mama Galleria (NYC), Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse III at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee (WI), Framing the Female Gaze: Women Artists and the New Historicism at Lehman College Art Gallery (NY), and This is Not a Doll’s House at The CAMP Gallery, Miami (FL). Recent solo shows include The Fez as Storyteller at the Brandeis University/Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (MA; online/pandemic) and The Fez as Storyteller at Lockhart Gallery, SUNY Geneseo (NY).