Gabo Camnitzer
Image Description: A white artist with blue/green eyes and light brown hair brown wearing black t-shirt and gold necklace. Brightly lit image with a white background.
Gabo Camnitzer is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. He received his MFA from Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. Combining strategies of experimental pedagogy and participatory installation, Camnitzer’s work focuses on childhood as a site of ideological and material struggle. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Queens Museum, Queens, NY; GfZK, Leipzig; Artists Space, New York, NY; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden and others. Camnitzer is Director of Foundations and Assistant Professor of Social Practice at UMass Dartmouth. He has held teaching positions at The Neighborhood Elementary School (PS 363), New York; Columbia University, New York; and Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden. Camnitzer lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.