Camille Casemier lives and works in Chicago as an artist and educator. Her practice is currently guided by inquiries into objects and their settings-in particular at her day job at a resale shop as well as the collections of Chicago’s larger cultural institutions- the Field Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works occur on walls, pages, stages, and screens, in private and public spaces, they are usually given form by cameras and audiences. The idea of the occurrence is not limited to the presentation of the work but underlies her consideration of the subjects as well–objects do not simply exist, they occur, and in turn their presence speaks to the circumstance of their placement.
Casemier spent her formative years around Bread and Puppet, she studied dance at the New School, later earning a dual BFA in art and theater from the University of Michigan and an MFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she now teaches in both the Painting/Drawing and Performance Department. She has presented work at the Festival Arte/Accione (CDMX), Indonesian Performatif Drawing Forum (Yogyakarta), Re-Happening at Black Mountain College, Performance Art Studies #73 (Goerlitz DE/Zgorzelec POL), Chroma Art Film Festival (Miami) and the Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium of the Chicago International Puppet Festival, among others.