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Camille Eskell is an interdisciplinary artist who exhibits her work extensively in solo and group shows throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Mexico and South America. Her work is included 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 has received the Artist Fellowship Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts in mixed media, as well as fellowships in drawing from the New York Foundation for the Arts and painting from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
Her work has been featured in major publications such as The New York Times, CT Post, The Hartford Courant, Art New England, and The Huffington Post, as well as in online journals including Art Spiel, Posit 19, FF2 Media, and Ante Mag. Based in the greater New York area, Eskell maintains a studio with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program. She holds an MFA from Queens College/CUNY.
Recent one- and two-person exhibitions include Untitled: Her Story at the CAMP Gallery (Miami), The Fez as Storyteller at Brandeis University’s Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and at Lockhart Gallery, SUNY Geneseo, curated by artist and art historian Dr. Cynthia Hawkins. Selected group exhibitions include the four-year touring show Tradition Interrupted, Seeking Joy at the Bernard Heller Museum (NY), Every Woman Biennial at La Mama Galleria (NYC), Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse III at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, (Re)Work It! Women Artists on Women’s Labor at the Mattatuck Museum (CT), Framing the Female Gaze at Lehman College Art Gallery (NY), and Cycles of Nature: Highlights from the Collections of the Hudson River Museum and Art Bridges (NY), among others.