Camille Casemier (she/they) b. 1995 is a Chicago based artist whose 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, where she learned to see a liveness in things, she studied dance at the New School where she started thinking more critically about the movement of bodies and objects in physical and virtual space, later earning her bachelors of fine arts in performance from the University of Michigan, and then working as a projection designer for bands and theaters in Burlington, Detroit, and New York City. In 2024 she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has shown work in Chicago, Detroit, New York, Miami, Karlsruhe (DE), Goerlitz (DE), Zgorzelec (POL), Yogyakarta (IDSA), and Shanghai (CN).