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Camille Utterback

Camille Utterback

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  • American, b. 1970 Lives and works in San Francisco, CA Camille Utterback is an internationally acclaimed artist whose interactive installations...
    Photo: Brett Bowman

    American, b. 1970

    Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

     

    Camille Utterback is an internationally acclaimed artist whose interactive installations and reactive sculptures engage participants in a dynamic process of kinesthetic discovery and play. Utterback’s work explores the aesthetic and experiential possibilities of linking computational systems to human movement and gesture in layered and often humorous ways. Her work focuses attention on the continued relevance and richness of the body in our increasingly mediated world.
     
    Utterback has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Media Arts Grant from Creative Work Fund (2015); MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2009); a Transmediale International Media Art Festival Award (2005); and a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship (2002). She has realized commissions for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; San Jose International Airport, CA; Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, PA; American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; and Stanford University, CA.
     
    Her work has been exhibited at galleries, museums, and festivals internationally, including the Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria (2000); Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea (2000); Netherlands Institute for Media Art, Amsterdam (2000, 2002, 2008); Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taiwan (2001); Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine (2001); New Museum, New York, NY (2003); San Jose Museum of Art (2005); Skive Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2009); Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2013); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (2015); and Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (2015). Utterback’s work is in private and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA; Itaú Cultural Institute, Sáo Paolo, Brazil; and La Caixa Foundation Barcelona, Spain.
     
    Artist CV (PDF)
  • Works
    • Camille Utterback Precarious, 2018 Interactive installation (custom software, computer, depth-camera, projection, lighting) Dimensions variable - minimum projection and interactive floor area sizes 7' x 11' each
      Camille Utterback
      Precarious, 2018
      Interactive installation (custom software, computer, depth-camera, projection, lighting)
      Dimensions variable - minimum projection and
      interactive floor area sizes 7' x 11' each
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    • Camille Utterback Untitled 6 from the External Measures Series, 2005 Interactive installation (custom software, video camera, computer, projector, lighting) 7.5’ x 10’ projection and corresponding interaction area
      Camille Utterback
      Untitled 6 from the External Measures Series, 2005
      Interactive installation (custom software, video camera, computer, projector, lighting)
      7.5’ x 10’ projection and corresponding interaction area
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    • Camille Utterback Floating World, 2011 Generative animation (custom software, computer, HD monitors) 6 monitors, overall: 12.5 x 128 inches
      Camille Utterback
      Floating World, 2011
      Generative animation (custom software, computer, HD monitors)
      6 monitors, overall: 12.5 x 128 inches
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    • Camille Utterback Nodules, 2013 Generative animation with custom glass (custom software, computer, flat screen display, frame) 12.5 x 20 x 5.5 inches
      Camille Utterback
      Nodules, 2013
      Generative animation with custom glass (custom software, computer, flat screen display, frame)
      12.5 x 20 x 5.5 inches
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    • Camille Utterback River, 2013 Generative animation with custom glass (custom software, computer, flat screen display, frame) 20 x 12.5 x 5.5 inches
      Camille Utterback
      River, 2013
      Generative animation with custom glass (custom software, computer, flat screen display, frame)
      20 x 12.5 x 5.5 inches
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  • Exhibitions
    • Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and Camille Utterback: Kaleidoscope Eyes

      Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and Camille Utterback:
      Kaleidoscope Eyes

      April 4 - June 29, 2019
      Haines Gallery is proud to present Kaleidoscope Eyes , an exhibition bringing together the glittering mirrored mosaics of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and the interactive digital installations of Camille Utterback ,...
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    • Poetics of Construction

      Poetics of Construction

      January 18 - February 23, 2013
      Our intervention with the world is invariably shaped by the composed form. Even in the seemingly limitless digital society with which we are obliged to interact, our negotiations with physical...
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  • News
    • Camille Utterback Public Commission, Stanford University unveils a new interactive installation by Camille Utterback at the center of its new...
      News

      Camille Utterback
      Public Commission

      Stanford University unveils a new interactive installation by Camille Utterback at the center of its new Computing and Data Science building
      Fathom , a site-specific, permanent installation by Camille Utterback , is now on view at Stanford. Commissioned for Stanford’s new Computing and Data Science (CoDa) building and installed in the...
  • Press
  • Robin Wander, "Art installation illuminates the history of encoded data," Stanford Report, April 28, 2025

    Alex Kekauoha, "CoDa marks new era for computing and data science at Stanford," Stanford Report, February 13, 2025

    Robin Wander, "Artists Alia Farid and Camille Utterback to create new campus artworks," Stanford Report, May 16, 2024

    Brandy McDonnell, “Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center looks to future as sun sets on inaugural exhibit in its new home,” The Oklahoman, December 25, 2020

    Brandy McDonnell, “Seeing the light: Oklahoma Contemporary showcases acclaimed artists with new home’s first exhibit, ‘Bright Golden Haze,’” The Oklahoman, March 12, 2020

    James Russell, “See the New and Improved Amon Carter Museum of American Art,” D Magazine, September 17, 2019

    Jonathan Curiel, “EyeJacking Culture, at Two Stunning New Exhibits,” SF Weekly, May 2, 2019

    Mikko Lautamo, “Monir Farmanfarmaian & Camille Utterback @ Haines,” Squarecylinder.com, May 10, 2019

    Edward Rothstein, “‘Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now’ Review: Tracing the Shadows of Past and Present,” The Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2018

    Grace Parazzoli, “Profiles in chiaroscuro: ‘Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,’” Pasatiempo, October 5, 2018

    Christina Waters, "Camille Utterback’s Visual Homage to the San Lorenzo River," Good Times, January 24, 2017

    Katie Nodjimbadem, "This Interactive Installation Rains a Poem Down on Viewers," Smithsonian, September 23, 2015

    Rachel Howard, "Mark Foehringer Dance Project: Painting Pictures with Movement," SF Gate, September 10, 2014

    Robin Wander, "A Molecular Physics Experience Through Movement at Stanford," Stanford News, September 5, 2014

    Helen Lessick, "Innovation in Administration at San José, California's Norman Y. Mineta Airport," Public Art Review, Spring/Summer issue, 2011

    Reyhan Harmanci, "For Digital Artists, Apps Provide New Palette," The New York Times, August 19, 2010

    Reena Jana, "The Ripple Effect," Wired Magazine, February 1, 2004

     

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