Cameron MacLeod

Bergen, Norway · cameron.mac@gmail.com

Education

2007 - 2009MFA - Art in the Public Realm
Konstfack University of Art, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
2003 - 2004BFA - Interdisciplinary Fine Arts
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2001 - 2003Interdisciplinary Fine Arts
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
1995 - 1997DEC Diploma - Fine Arts
Dawson College, Montreal, Canada

Relevant Work History

2017 - presentDirector / Co-Founder
Aldea - Center for Contemporary Art, Design and Technology, Bergen
2010 - presentDirector / Co-Founder
Platform Stockholm, Sweden
2013 - 2017Director
Flaggfabrikken - Center for Contemporary Art, Bergen, Norway
2007 - 2010Lead Technician / Designer
The Office For Public Art Sweden AB, Stockholm
2003 - 2005Contract Artist
Kitikmeot Heritage Society, Cambridge Bay, Canada

Board Memberships

2026 - presentBoard Member
FINK - Fellesverksteder i Norge for Kunstproduksjon (national network of shared art-production workshops)

Curation History

2026Bound Form (Bunden form)
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Toril Johannessen
2026The Ecology of Forking Paths
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Jonatan T. Wejnold
2025The Three Sisters
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Tiago Bom
2025The Human Orchid
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Lena Bergendahl
2025Weaving Algebraic Patterns, Flowers and Leaves
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Ørjan Amundsen, Isan Maher, and Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg
2025White Woman by the Seaside
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Lindsay Lawson
2025Non Humans
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Isan Maher, Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg, Ørjan Amundsen
2023Elevator Poetics
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Katarina Sylvan, Andrea Martinucci, Jonathan Vervoort
2023Non-Human-Matters
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - George Henry Longly, Nicolas Lamas, Natalia Dominguez Rangel
2023Voracity Loop
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - George Henry Longly, Nicolas Lamas, Natalia Dominguez Rangel
2023Comfort#21
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Lang/Baumann
2022Consumed Future Spewed Up as Present Vol II
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Lea Guldditte Hestelund
2022Voracity Loop
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway
2022Inside Job (Ula Lucińska, Michał Knychaus) & Botond Keresztesi
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway
2022Fermenting Subjects
Arne Skaug Olsen & Anders Dahl Monsen
2022Miasma Protoplasma
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden - Linda Morell
2021Tyngdraft
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden - Håkan Lidbo and Stefan Tcherepnin
2021Threads on the Face - Notes on Environmental Literacy
Aldea, Bergen, Norway - Sveinung Rudjord Unneland, Eamon OKane, Sofia Bankeström
2020Private Song
Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020You Will Meet a Bird with Strange Feet
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Ayatgali Tuleubek
2020Thankful to Be a Ghost Now
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Sebastian Burger, Theodore Darst, Caroline Turner
2019Natural Blood Circulation
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Sandra Vaka, Valérian Goalec, Iain Ball
2019Conversation Between Bodies No11
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Daniel Slåttnes & Sara Rönnbäck
2019On the use of Unknown Objects
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - Scott Rogers, Egle Kulbokaite, Sydney Shen, Katie Bethune-Leamen, Paul Barsch
2018SMOKE INSIDE
Aldea Gallery, Bergen, Norway - BB5000
2018Non-Target Unknown, Curatron Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Pierre Clement & Lindsay Lawson
2017Dept. of Ways and Means, Curatron Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Katarina Sylan & Richard Krantz
2017Mount Analouge, Curatron Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Adam Cruces & Louisa Gagliardi, Sebastian Burger, BB5000
2017Two Cops (Hands Up!), Evening Standard
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm - Tova Mozard
2017Chewing Gum That never Loses Its Flavor, Curatron Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm - Jonas Holmer, Lisa Trogen Devgun, Tomas Sinkevičius, Viltė Bražiūnaitė
2016When I First Came to Town, Evening Standard Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Viktor Fordell
2016GMT +1, Curatron Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Zuzanna Czebatul, Antoine Donzeaud, Felicia Atkinson
2016Orange Lynx, Curatron Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Malena Norlin, Nadine Byrne, Ulrika Lubin
2016POEHALI!, Evening Standard Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Petr Davydtchenko
2016EXERGY, Evening Standard Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Anna Sagstrom & Dull City
2015Curatron #5 release, Curatron Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Juliette Bonneviot, Marco Bruzzone, Cécile B. Evans, Jenny Kalliokulju
2014THE PROMISE (II), Evening Standard Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Santiago Mostyn
2014SPIRTS, Evening Standard Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Erik Larsson
2014Beyond Street-Lit Roads, Curatron Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Peter Von Tiesenhausen, Colin Lyons, Sarah Anne Johnson
2014Time Place Light Smell, Curatron Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Vilde Salhus Røed, Helena Wallberg, Evan Broens, Marthe Elise Stramrud, Anders Rindom
2013Set-ups, Curatron Series
Platform Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden - Erik Larsson, Jeannine Han, Sverre Strandberg, Lewis & Taggart, Olof Nimar, Dan Riley, Theodore Trottner, Alf Rose
2013Lots of Loss, Evening Standard Series
Platform Gallery, Stockholm Sweden - Nadine Byrne
2013SENOREN #12 PREMIÄR, Evening Standard Series
Platform Gallery, Stockholm Sweden - Senoren
2012BOMB, Evening Standard Series
Platform Gallery, Stockholm Sweden - Olav Westphalen
2012Le Grand Bouffe, Evening Standard Series
Platform Gallery, Stockholm Sweden - Vera Sjunnesson, Julia Uddén
2012NIGHT TIME, Evening Standard Series
Platform Gallery, Stockholm Sweden - Tamara Henderson
2012Smashing Time, Evening Standard Series
Platform Gallery, Stockholm Sweden - Dimen Abdulla & Pella Kågerman, Avid Wretman, Lina Bjerneld, Grant Watkins & Andreas Sandstrom, Louise Dahl-Lindvall
2012New Years Eve, Evening Standard Series
Platform Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden - Anna Lundh
2011Klass Ericsson, Evening Standard Series
Platform Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden - Klass Ericsson
2011Morr and Jerry Mega Rave, Evening Standard Series
Platform Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden - Kjersti Vetterstad, Monica Winther
2011Evening Standard, Evening Standard Series
Platform Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden - Tamara Henderson, Oscar Carlson, Ingrid Furre, Jennifer Rainsford, Marco Bruzzone and Patrick Tuttofouco, Robin Montelius

Solo/Duo Exhibitions

20190 the Z Axis
Banff Center, Banff, Canada
2018Grand Palais
Bern, Switzerland
2014Beyond the Realm of Scarcity
Small Projects, Tromso, Norway
2011A Book and A Pistol
Dortmund Bodega, Oslo, Norway
2007Northern Lights
Pisolet Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Group Exhibitions

2022The Machine is Us
Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
2022Jeg kaller det kunst
National Museum, Oslo, Norway
2015Which is a way of saying: a word was removed
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
2014TO BECOME WHOLE (THE WHOLE ISSUE)
Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, CA
2014Flag
Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
2014Vestlandsutstillingen
Vestlandet, Norway
2013Flag NYC
Performa, New York, New York
2013Stranger in a Norwegian Landscape
Abbaye aux Dames, Caen, France
2013Flag Show
Entrée, Bergen, Norway
2012Machine Worries, Machine Hearts
Blank Project Space, Cape Town, SA
2012It's a small, small world
Family Business, New York, United States
2011Chain Letter
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, United States
2011A Book and A Pistol
Dortmund Bodega, Oslo, Norway
2010Half Square - Half Crazy
VIAFARINI, Milano, Italy
2009Konstfack's Degree Exhibition
Stockholm, Sweden
2008Pornography
Det Åpne Teater, Oslo, Norway
2007Who Makes and Owns Your Work
IASPIS at Årsta Folkets Hus Stockholm, Sweden
2007Şahane
The Hall, Istanbul, Turkey
2006Visual Immortality
International Biennial for Contemporary Arts Bulgaria, Shumen, Bulgaria
2006Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
Toronto, Ontario

Speaking Engagements

2022Guest speaker
Konsoll - Game development Conference, Bergen, Norway
2017Guest speaker
Res Artis, Danish Art Workshops, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016Guest speaker
Bern University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland
2016Guest speaker
Grand Palais, Bern, Switzerland
2015Guest speaker
Nova Scotia College of Fine Arts, Halifax, Canada
2015Keynote Speaker
Booster Technology Conference, Bergen, Norway
2015Guest speaker
Royal College of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2015Symposium presenter, Studio Talks
Tag Team Studio, Bergen, Norway
2015Guest speaker, Fabrikken
Nordic Residency Circle, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015Guest speaker
Alt-Cph art market, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014Guest speaker
Bergen Academy of Arts and Design, Bergen, Norway
2010Guest speaker
Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, Tromso, Norway
2010Guest speaker
B-open Lecture Series, Bergen, Norway

Press & Publications

2024Changing Seasonality: How Communities are Revising their Seasons
De Gruyter
2023How to Create an Immersive VR Art Experience
Varjo Insider Blog
2021Impact of Technology on Art
Public Art
2018Anthea Buys, Spring-report on Bergen's New Art Scene
Kunstkritikk
2017Tine Semb, Aldea
BilledKunst
2017Jonas Ekeberg, Kunstvåren i Norge
Kunstkritikk
2016Aude Launay, Algocurating
02 Magazine
2016Karsten Thurfjel, Algoritmen som konstutställare
P1 Kultur, Sverige Radio
2016GMT +1 - PLATFORM STOCKHOLM
Aujourd'hui
2016GMT +1, Group Exhibition Part of the Curatron Series at Platform Stockholm
OFLUXO
2015Monica Holmen, Curatron
KunstForum
2015Erlend Hammer, Ung i Bergen
Kunstkritikk
2014Ulrikke Valvik Mitchell, Graffitidrone og grønn hagehjelp
Aftenbladet
2014Emily Levy, Math Takes the Guessing Out of Artistic Collaboration
Vocativ
2014Rachel Mason, Cloud Galleries: The Rise of the Virtual Art Establishment
Huffington Post
2013Karl Lydén, Curator ersätts av algoritmer
Kunstkritikk
2012Chad Rossouw, Machine Worries
Arthrob Contemporary Art in South Africa
2011Nina Paus, A Book and a Pistol
Norsk Kunstnarbok 2011 (Dortmund Bodega)

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