Cameron Patricia Downey is an anti-disciplinary artist from North Minneapolis, Minnesota whose practice oscillates between photography, film, body, sculpture, curation and otherwise. The incidental, the precarious and the misremembered are central to this work which strives to archive, unfurl, make-altar-of and bring fantasy to the Blues of Black life and relation. Downey graduated from Columbia University in 2021 with a double concentration in visual art and environmental science. Downey’s art has been exhibited by HAIR+NAILS, Minneapolis; Engage Projects, Chicago; Aronson Gallery, New York; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Kemper Museum, St. Louis; Macalester College Law Warschaw Gallery, St Paul; as part of Midway Contemporary Art’s Off-Site program; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara. They are the 2023 recipient of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation’s MN Art Prize and are a recent artist in residence with the Walker Art Center’s Moving Image department and Second Shift Studio Space of Saint Paul.