Cammie Staros

Cammie Staros makes sculptures that draw from classical antiquities and the contexts in which we view them. Through a combination of ancient techniques, contemporary sensibility, and museological display, her work folds the past in on itself to reveal semiotic systems created and reinforced through art history. Increasingly, it also explores how the relics of fallen empires might speak to the political and environmental threats to contemporary civilization. Her recent work evokes the institutionalization of an ancient past in order to imagine how our own moment might be remembered and what kind of world it will produce.

Staros received her BA in Art and Semiotics from Brown University in 2006 and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2011. She has presented solo exhibitions with LUX Art Institute as well Shulamit Nazarian, François Ghebaly, and Lefebvre & Fils galleries. Staros has received a number of awards, grants, and residencies. She was included in the recent Thames & Hudson title, 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, and in 2020 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow.