Staff
Dan Cameron, Founder & Artistic Director
Beth Allen, Director of Development
Ashley Chavis, Development Associate
Keith Johnson, Deputy Director for Exhibitions
Ylva Rouse, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs
Cherí Landry, Volunteer Services
Carrie Knopf, Hospitality Coordinator
Takema Robinson-Bradberry, Education Coordinator
Tara Foster, Education Intern
Board of Directors
Susan Gore Brennan
Chairman
Christopher J. Alfieri
Secretary
Vivian Cahn
Leah Chase
William A. Fagaly
William H. Hines
Nancy Delman Portnoy
Nari Ward
Michael Wilkinson
Advisory Committee
Ron Bechet
Andrew Bizer
Beverly Cook
Lolis Eric Elie
Jonathan Ferrara
LaSwanda S. Green
Brian Knighten
Srdjan Loncar
Deborah Luster
Don Marshall
Charles L. Whited
Justin Woods
About Dan Cameron
Dan Cameron is founder of the not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization U.S. Biennial, Inc., and artistic director of Prospect New Orleans, the international biennial of contemporary art produced by U.S. Biennial, which launched in November 2008. From 2007 to 2010, Cameron directed the visual arts program at Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), New Orleans, and he is curator of the 2011 CAC exhibitions, Then and Now and Patterns and Prototypes. The unprecedented success of Prospect.1 – the largest and best-attended exhibition in CAC's history -- coupled with Cameron's acclaimed program there – one-person exhibitions by Luis Cruz Azaceta, Aida Rulova, Peter Sarkisian, and Peter Saul, and such group exhibitions as Something from Nothing, Make-It-Right, Previously on Piety, Interplay, and Hot Up Here -- brought new vitality and attention to the arts center.
Cameron was senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York from 1995 to 2006, where his exhibitions included survey and new-work exhibitions of Eugenio Dittborn, Carroll Dunham, Teresita Fernandez, William Kentridge, Cildo Meireles, Los Carpinteros, Nalini Malani, Christian Marclay, Paul McCarthy, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Marcel Odenbach, Pierre et Gilles, Faith Ringgold, Doris Salcedo, Carolee Schneemann, Francesco Vezzoli, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, and Xu Bing, among others. While at the New Museum, he also organized the group exhibitions "East Village USA" and "Living Inside the Grid."
In 2003, Cameron served as artistic director for the 8th Istanbul Biennial, entitled "Poetic Justice," and in 2006, he co-organized the 10th Taipei Biennial, "Dirty Yoga." In 2006, he was the curator of "New York, Interrupted" at pkm Gallery Beijing, the first independent exhibition of recent American art in China. In 2008, as guest curator for the Orange County Museum of Art, he presented a five-decade retrospective of American painter Peter Saul. Cameron currently serves as senior curator for Next Wave Visual Art at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), where he has organized an annual exhibition of emerging Brooklyn-based artists since 2002. He is also a member of the graduate faculty of School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, where he teaches an MFA symposium each spring.
Some of Cameron's better-known early exhibitions include "Extended Sensibilities" (1982, New Museum); "Art and its Double" (1986—87, Fundación "la Caixa," Barcelona and Madrid); "What is Contemporary Art?" (1989, Rooseum, Malmö); "The Savage Garden" (1991, Fundación 'la Caixa,' Madrid); and "Cocido y Crudo" (1994, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid). Besides organizing major exhibitions in cities like Moscow, Mexico City, Valencia, Vienna, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, and Los Angeles, he is a frequently published writer on contemporary art, with hundreds of museum catalogs, essays, book texts, and magazine articles to his credit. His most recent publications include critical essays for Alexandre Arrechea: "Todo Algo Nada" (2009, Centro de Arte, Caja de Burgos, Spain); Nick Cave: "Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" (2009, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco); and Skylar Fein: "Youth Manifesto" (2009, New Orleans Museum of Art).
