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Clayton Campbell
After_abu_ghraib__1Clayton Campbell, After Abu Ghraib #1,
2007, Photograph, 40" x 60"
After_abu_ghraib__2Clayton Campbell, After Abu Ghraib #2,
2007, photograph, 40" x 60'
After_abu_ghraib__3Clayton Campbell, After Abu Ghraib #3,
2007, photograph, 40" x 60'
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> QUICK FACTS
BIRTHPLACE:  
New York
BIRTH YEAR:  
unknown
LIVES IN:  
Los Angeles
WORKS IN:  
Los Angeles
ADDRESS:  
18th Street Arts Center, 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
PHONE:  
310-453-3711 ext. 112
WEBSITE:  
http://www.claytoncampbell.com
REPRESENTING GALLERIES:  
18th Street Arts Center
> STATEMENT
Clayton Campbell is an artist and arts organizer who has been with 18th Street Arts Center since 1995 and currently holds the position of Artistic Director. He specializes in international cultural exchange and artist residencies and is the Artist Residency Advisor, United States Artists; and past  President of the International Network of Residential Arts Centers, (Res Artis). He has been a trustee of the Alliance of Artist Communities; consultant for the government of Taiwan’s international artist in residence program; the Rockefeller Bellagio artist residency program; and for the UCLA Fowler Museum’s public arts programming.

His past experience as an arts organizer includes; Program Director, the Kampo Cultural Center, New York; Production Manager, Theater of the Open Eye and the Joseph Campbell Foundation, New York; and Founder, the Performing Space, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mr. Campbell writes extensively on the arts. He is the Los Angeles Editor of Contemporary magazine, London; Los Angeles Correspondent for Flash Art magazine, Milan, Italy; and contributor to Afterimage magazine, New York; THE Magazine of Santa Fe: Object Journal of Contemporary Design, Australia; DART International magazine ,Toronto; Art Press, Paris, France.

In 2002 Clayton was awarded by the French Government the title “Chevalier de les Artes et Letres, for his work in international cultural exchange.

Campbell’s conceptual and public practice art work focuses on commentary and investigates issues of diversity and social justice. He exhibits his projects and photographic and media works at museums and galleries. His work is in major collections including the Library of Congress, the Phoenix Art Museum, and the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, and the Center for Political Graphics. His most recent exhibition, “Words My Son Has Learned Since 9-11” was shown at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s LACMA Lab; the Higher Bridges Arts Center, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland; and was part of a retrospective exhibit which traveled through Croatia. In 2008 it will travel to the Wyspa Foundation in Gdansk, Poland, and the Center for the Study of the South in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

 
> EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Current Exhibitions and Events
Sep, 2008 War as a Way of Life
18th Street Arts Center
 
Past Exhibitions and Events
May, 2008 Incognito Benifit Exhibition and Art Sale
Santa Monica Museum of Art
 
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