| Kamil Dawson
Born 1979, Sebastopol, CA
EDUCATION
2009 MFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2002 BFA California College of Arts and Crafts, San
Francisco, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008
Graven
Images
Café Royal, San Francisco, CA
2006
Untitled
Ju De Jupe, Walnut Creek, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009
Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Show California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Illusion
Helps
Orange Ally Projects, San Francisco, CA
Another
Show About Love
Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2008
California
History Walk
Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Multi
Species Salon
Play Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Girl
Stock
Mama Buzz Café, Oakland, CA
Ripples
Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006
Annual
Member’s Showcase
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Bay
Area Currents 2006
Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland CA
2005
Fall Salon
Bohemiarama, San Francisco, CA
Open
House
The Crucible, Oakland, CA
Café
Show
Art Work SF, San Francisco, CA
2003
Pro
Arts Open Studios
Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2002
Solo
Senior Exhibit
California College of Arts and Crafts
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Cheng, DeWitt. “San Francisco Art Galleries Openings First
Thursday; 08.07.08” Art Business.com, August 12, 2008.
Baker, Kenneth. “Bay Area Currents 2006, The Oakland Art
Gallery” San Francisco Chronicle, May 16, 2006.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
2008
Richard K. Price Scholarship
California College of the Arts Scholarship
Linda Jones Memorial Fine Arts Scholarship
Ora Keck Scholarship Fund
Ethel O. Gardner P.E.O. Scholarship Fund
2007
Gift Aid Scholarship
California College of the Arts Scholarship
Artist Statement
My subjects are found by
default, chosen from already existing images within the public sphere. Having
posed for someone else’s lens, they are culled from Alfred Hitchcock films,
utopian communities, and online photos from Flicker.com. Each painting uses the
female subject as an agent to collide with the ironies found within pleasure,
desire, female sexuality, and cultural identity. My research as an artist has
taken me into a realm of painting where the singularity of an image takes
prescient over how the image is painted. Like singular points in mathematics,
each image that I choose to paint is treated separately in order to analyze its
function. Together, these paintings are defined by the connections that the
viewer finds between them.
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