Artist
Gabo Camnitzer
Gabo Camnitzer is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. He received his MFA from Valand Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. Combining strategies of experimental pedagogy and participatory installation, Camnitzer's work focuses on childhood as a space of ideological and material struggle. His work has been exhibited in venues such as the 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 primary schools (PS 363) and Columbia University in New York City, and at Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden.