About

Cydney Camp (b. 1994, Detroit) is an artist whose oil paintings and drawings investigate the Black psyche and experience in America.

She lovingly deconstructs the figure to explore these complexities of contemporary life to depict Black, often femme, subjects existing in familiar, yet alternative realities. Her subjects continually come together and fall apart. Their multitude of identities and modes of being probe a nonlinear lived experience in real time. Distorted perspectives, abstract compositional strategies, and a sensorial color palette form dreamlike scenes that suggest an experience outside the exploitative extraction of the Black body that pervades our broader cultural ethos.   

Camp has exhibited across Michigan and New York, including at M Contemporary, Norwest Gallery, Louis Buhl, Library Street Collective, Reyes Finn, Detroit Fiber Works, 2022 SPRING/BREAK NYC and many more. Cydney lives and works in Hamtramck, Detroit.

Please direct all inquiries to info@theprocessdetroit.com

PRESS

Threads: The Art Exchange, S2 EP.3: “Old School Painter’s Painter”

Detroit Metro Times, “Library Street Collective takes viewers into artist studios with new web series”

BLAC Detroit Magazine, “The Art Issue: The Who’s Who List of Artists to Watch in Detroit”

The Other Art Fair, The Other Art Cities Detroit Spotlight: Cydney Camp

Education

2023 Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA - Painting, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2015 Michigan State University, James Madison College, B.A. - Social Relations and Policy, East Lansing, MI

SOLO exhibitions

2022 Passages, M Contemporary Art, Ferndale, MI
2022 QUEUE: Cydney Camp, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI

2021 Salon Highlight, Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit, MI

selected GROUP exhibitions

2024 Drawing: Detroit, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI

2023 Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2023 Get Together, Reyes Finn, Detroit, MI

2022 100th All Media Exhibition, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI

2022 It Takes A Village, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI

2022 The Work of Our Hands: Black Women as Cornerstone of Culture, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

2022 Revelations, M Contemporary Art, Ferndale, MI

2021 In This House, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI

2021 With All Our Might, The Carr Center, Detroit, MI

2021 Whistling in the Dark, SaveArtSpace, Philadelphia, PA

2021 Souls of Black Folk, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

2020 Plus One, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI

2020 Summer Showcase, K.O. Gallery, Hamtramck, MI

2020 The Space Between, Ann Arbor Art Center Ann Arbor, MI

2019 Elemental, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI

2019 Spark, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI

2019 The New Mona Lisa, Norwest Gallery, Detroit, MI

2018 Black People Living, Detroit Fiber Works, Detroit, MI