Camille Casemier
Current Projects

Resale Reporter, @MtSinaiResaleShop, 2020 (ongoing)


Artist in Resident, Hong Museum, 2025
Wenzhou, China


Mixtape #2 Watershed Art and Ecology, Chicago IL


Recent and Past Works

Value World (Ypsilanti Object Play) 2025
expanded cinema performance
a video image essay built from two sets of images found at a local resale shop the day before
Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti
Ypsilanti, Michigan


All Species Day Prime Rib All Day 2025
collaboration with Selena Kearney
perfomative essay about the raven with a Black Sabbath cover
responding to our seperate works in the Chicago Cluster Exhibition
Chicago Cluster Project at Hedrich Blessing Studio
Chicago IL



Hughs Pole
2025
photo installation, 43’ utility pole
working with Rod Slemmons’ archive
Chicago Cluster Project at Hedrich Blessing Studio
Chicago IL



Speak to the Object Speak to the House 2025
collaboration with Selena Kearney
performative essay on the Field Museum following the 2024 NAGPRA update
Watershed Art and Ecology


Eternity’s Vast Pocket, Picked-- 2024
collaboration with Steph Patsula
expanded cinema performance on seeing a dead tooth in everything around me
Watershed Art and Ecology
Chicago IL


The Other Day at Work, 2020 - current
photos from day job at Mt Sinai Resale Shop
2020- current
Chicago IL


Speak to the Object Speak to the House 2024
collaboration with Selena Kearney
performative essay on the Field Museum following the 2024 NAGPRA update
Ion Gallery, Kansas City, MO


Dance in a Wing Chair 2024
performing a score by Remy Charlip while at work at a resale shop
Patient Info Gallery


The Right to Look the Right to Have 2024
photo series documenting museum visitor interactions with temporary coverings following the 2024 NAGPRA update at the Field Museum
MFA thesis SAIC Galleries
Chicago IL


American Girl: Cathy Rigby 2024
puppet performance to Cathy Rigby aerobics tape
Unlearning Exercises
Roots and Culture Gallery
Chicago IL



0.5kg American Girl 2024
conversation
with Dafen Painting Village 


Cowboytraume (Disney’s Birthplace Object Play) 2024
performance for camera filmed by Yezhou Zheng at Walt Disney’s birthplace
starring Americana found in Karlsruhe, Germany
Chicago, IL


Iowa City Object Play 2024
live video essay built from objects found at local resale shop 
Quicker than a Ray of Light Then Gone
Public Space One
Iowa City, IO


Karlsruhe Object Play 2024
performance of objects found at Kashka second hand shop staged in a driveway at Simon Fischer’s studio
Karlsruhe, Germany



Americana Action Disfigure (Mexico City Object Play) 2023
collaboration with Steph Patsula
expanded cinema performance with objects found at flea market
Faro Cosmos, Festival Arte Accione
Mexico City



The Scream 2023
oil painting and a home security camera screen dance
a contribution to the legacy of Edvard Monk’s anxieties
Chicago/Shenzhen


Flapping 2023
screen dance as distress flag


Headless Buddha 2023
found plastic headless buddha as view finder in Art Institute Chicago collection


The Childs Bath 2023

CCTVenus of Rags 2023
CCTV screendance in resale shop quoting Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Venus


Fly Swatter Flat Screen 2023
live video image and object installation
surveilled object pile as painting


garage surveil 2023
live video projections and object installation
an absurd microcosm on the sensibilities of overproduction and home security



Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium 2023
Chicago International Puppet Festival
on how puppetry informs my practice


A Window My Size
durational image construction with live cameras, projection, and provisional materials
Chicago, IL


Wait, weight sit 2022
expanded cinema performance constructing images with my grandmother
collaboration with Carolyn Casemier
Links Hall In/Form Festival
Chicago IL


When You’re Above Me 2022
trying to relocate the self that wrote with both hands in both directions
SAIC Impact Festival


Cinderblock, Tire, Fish Bowl 2022
live video object performance
a choreographed system of objects explaining a churning in my chest
SAIC Performance Graduate Showcase