Austen Camille

Austen Camille is a Canadian-American multidisciplinary artist, writer, builder and gardener. Camille primarily makes site-responsive public work that aims to both build relationships with the local environment, as well as call attention to the relationships that already exist within that environment. They travel to project sites, stay for a period of research, get to know community members and learn the landscape, and create pieces that are in conversation with the place.

Recent public projects include a series of works in the Greenport Conservation Area (Hudson, NY) supported by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York State Water Resources Institute, and a series of works throughout the landscape of Sheridan, WY supported by The Nature Conservancy (WY) and a Puffin Foundation Environmental Grant. Camille is also part of an ongoing collaboration between artists and oceanographers working to raise awareness about cold water corals and undertake restoration work in the Gulf of Mexico. Camille received their MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture (Temple University) in 2020.