Clayton Campbell

Since 1975 Clayton Campbell has been a cultural producer who has worked in the field of arts and culture as a visual artist, curator, arts administrator, and arts writer.

His most recent work, Flower Meditations, have been photographed with an I-Phone and are released three to four times a week on his Instagram account , at . A departure from his other work, they are created to give his audience and public a resting place in the midst of the “serious stuff that is happening out there.”

Clayton Campbell’s artist statement:

We live in a time of intense social, environmental and spiritual change. My practice uses social commentary to find alignment with the meanings behind these transformations. I am making art that explores the behavior of ordinary people who find themselves in these extraordinary circumstances.
A practicing artist, Campbell is known for his socially engaged projects, and has been exhibiting paintings, drawings, prints and photographs since 1980. His most recent exhibits include one-person shows of his seminal project, Words We Have Learned Since 9/11. This is a public participatory photographic project begun in 2005 and now consists of over 1300 portraits. It has been exhibited nationally and internatio...

Art Student League, New York
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts
Studio of Ernst Fuchs, Vienna, Austria

Clayton Campbell
claytonscampbell@gmail.com
www.claytoncampbell.com

Artist Statement

We live in a time of intense social, environmental and spiritual change. My practice seeks to find alignment with the meanings behind these transformations. I am making art that explores the behavior of ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances.

Education
1965-68 Art Students League of New York
1968-69 Boston Museum School of Fine Art
1970-72 Atelier Ernst Fuchs, Vienna, Austria

A note on the Words We Have Learned Since 9/11 project- 2005 to Present

The 9/11 Words Project is project that has been presented in numerous venues over the past dozen years and which has captured the public zeitgeist. It is a participatory photographic project begun in 2005 that now consists of over 1300 portraits of persons who pose holding signage on which are written new words they have learned since 9/11. The 9/11 Words Project is designed to culminate in 2021 in New York and to date has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Unit 24 Gallery, London; The Higher Bridges Arts Center, Enniskellen, Northern Ireland; the Nam Jun Paik Art Center, South Korea; the Aaran Gallery in Tehran; The Maison Europeenne d...