Marie Cameron

A black and white photo of "The Cats" statues, embroidered with a pastel rainbow connecting them

Marie Cameron, Leo and Leona (2025), Silk thread on vintage photo postcard

Marie Cameron is an imaginative realist oil painter and mixed media assemblage artist working out of her dream studio in Los Gatos, California. Focusing on the themes of hope and beauty in the face of loss regarding our relationship to the environment and to each other.

Born out of the pandemic, her #morerainbows! series of silk embroidered rainbows on vintage photographs and postcards were created out of a desire to reconnect with hope and a deep need to find the rainbow in herself, in one another, and in the world once more. 

Born in New York City and raised in Maine and Nova Scotia, she earned her BFA with distinction at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, where she minored in sculpture and majored in painting. She was awarded a prestigious Canada Council Grant and worked in giftware design and children’s book illustration while maintaining her art practice. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late nineties, she became heavily involved in the local art community, exploring writing, art, and curating.

Her award-winning work has been exhibited and collected internationally and featured in many publications, galleries and museums, including the Museo Diocesano, Triton Museum of Art, Marin MOCA, SOMArts, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, Santa Clara University Dowd Gallery, Las Laguna Gallery, Sanchez Art Center, Vargas Gallery, NUMU, Whitney Modern, Arc Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Curated, de Young Museum of Art, Cabrillo Gallery, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Jen Tough Gallery, Blue Line Arts, ICA San José, Euphrat Museum of Art and Luna Gallery.

Marie has exhibited at NUMU on numerous occasions, both in group shows (GBAO, Waterlines, Art in the Time of Corona, Boundaries) and as a solo artist in Critical Masses, A Very Low Tide.

Marie sits at a table covered in images, she holds one up. There is a rainbow embroidered on the entire image.
Marie stands in front of "The Cats". She wears a rainbow skirt. The photo has been edited to be black and white other than her.
Three women pose in front of framed artworks. Marie, in the middle, holds up a purse made to look like a rainbow

Executive Director Kimberly Snyder, Marie Cameron, and Board President Julie Micallef


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