Jibz Cameron
718-915-5045
jibzcameron@gmail.com
Born 1975, California
Performance/Video Artist, Musician
lives and works, Brooklyn, NY
Education
Summer Training Congress, American Conservatory Theater, SF. CA, 2001
BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1998
Selected Performances
2009
Bags, Performa 09- "The History of the Future" 2009, NY, NY
Escape From the Family Home, Dixon Place, NY, NY
2008
Doin It For Art, National Arts Club, NY, NY
Family Home Dream, NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
Shining Dull Knife, The Metal Ball, Performa Benefit, Cedar Lake, NY, NY
Amplify The Avatar, New Museum Of Contemporary Art, NY, NY
Tales From The Purse, Counterpulse Theater, SF, CA
Enjoy Yourself, “The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics”
Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, SF, CA
Bags, Dance Theater Workshop, NY, NY
Bloody Break Up, Brain Eating Cheerleader, C’est Duckie, PS122, NY, NY
2007
Deep Feelings, Dixon Place, NYC
Art Piece, SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, FL
Entertaining The Crowd, Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
Get Dressed, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
So Into Art, WOW And NOW, Performa Arts Festival, Joe’s Pub, NY, NY
Suck It Up People, Performa Grande Finale, Hudson Theater, NY, NY
Bags The First, The Kitchen, NY, NY
What The Hell I am Doing Here, Soloman Contemporary Gallery, Easthampton, NY, NY
Ima Gay, Idyll Collective, Stockholm, Sweden
Life Could Be Easie, Duckie Club, London, UK
I Cant Wait, Avant Garde A-Rama, PS122, NY, NY
Get Dressed, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Hell in A Handbag , Hotfest of Queer Performance, Dixon Place, NY, NY
Hell in A Handbag, Vassar College, NY, NY
Hell in A Handbag, PS122, NY, NY
Baby, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Miami Funeral Vacation, New Langton Arts, SF, CA
In My Dreams, American Transstand, Canal Room, NY, NY
Was That OK?, "HOMOMUSEUM" Exit Art, NY, NY
Good Evening, Ars Nova, NY, NY
Why Me?, “GAY SHAME” Stay Gold Galllery, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Europe Is A Trip Tour:
Galeria Ze dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal
Electrowerks, London, UK Instants Chavirés, Paris, France
Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Recession Festival, Arhus, Denmark
Lovelite, Berlin, Germany
A58, Budapest, Hungary
Freemuzik, Brescia, Italy
Metaverso, Rome, Italy
Uniform Lust, Ladyfest, San Francisco, CA
Selected Screenings
The Quiet Storm
U.S. Contemporary Music Video Cycle in Santiago, Chile, 2008
16th Mix Brasil Film and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity, Sau Paulo, Brazil, 2008
ATA Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2008
VidFest: Hi-Performance Video and Music Festival, Boston, MA, 2008
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London, England, 2008
SXSW Film Festival, Austin, Texas, 2008
Outfest, Los Angeles, 2007
Idyll Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007
Break Up Day
NY Underground Film Festival, NYC, 2006
I Can’t Wait
New Langton Arts “New Music Video”, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Recordings
Dynasty Handbag, Brain Ghost, Lovepump United Records (release date October, 2009)
Dynasty Handbag, Foo Foo Yik Yik, Lovepump United Records, 2006
Dynasty, Dynasty, Tigerbeat6, 2004
Awards/Residencies
2008
Franklin Furance Grant For The Performing Arts
Fresh Tracks Artist In Residence, Dance Theater Workshop, NY, NY
2006
Galapagos Art Space Artist in Residence, Brooklyn, NY
Public Presentations
2009
Guest Panelist, Downtown Now, NYU
Visiting Artist, Panelist, Performance Studies International Conference, Zagreb, Croatia
Visiting Artist, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (invited by Jill Dolan)
Visiting Artist, Matrelineage Syposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2008
Visiting Artist, University Of Texas, Austin (invited by Paul Bonin-Rodriguez)
Visiting Artist, University Of Michigan Ann Arbor (invited by Holly Huhges)
2007
Lecturer, SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, FL
Related
2009
Instructor, Persona: Performing Yourself, New York University, NY, NY, Performance Studies Department
Performer, The Lilie's Revenge, by Taylor Mac, Here Arts Center, NY, NY
Performer, Room For Cream, Theater of the Two Headed Calf, La Mama ETC, NY, NY
2007
Director (one installment) , 365 Plays in 365 Days, by Susan Lori-Parks, The Public Theater, NY, NY
Selected Articles/Reviews
Hruska, Jordan, "ABMB | A Fashion Retrospective Starring Dynasty Handbag"
The Moment, NY Times Blog
Murrin, Tom, “Beautiful People”
Paper, April, 2008
Dunning, Jennifer, “Paper Bags Get Pretty Chatty Nowadays”
The New York Times, January 7, 2008
Hou, Christine, “Sophisticated Waste”
NY Arts Magazine November - December 2007
Beckles, Derek, “BACK ON THE GRID, Dynasty Handbag is Trying to Get Her Shit Together”
Vice Magazine, April, 2007