Published Writing

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Cameron Skene is a Montreal-based painter, writer and curator. His practice in the visual arts revolves around constructed space, place and memory. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across Canada. In 1993, he received the London Life Young Contemporaries Purchase Award.
He currently contributes features and reviews to Canadian Art, Border Crossings, ARTnews and the Montreal Gazette. He has interviewed many figures in the art world over the years, including Betty Goodwin and William S. Burroughs. His writing for the Gazette has attempted to present the art world to a general readership: from contemporary trends and profiles on contemporary artists to subjects as varied as art theft, art transportation, artists’ estates and art authentication. His writing has also appeared in Vie des Arts and The National Post, among others. In 2010, he was a guest curator for the exhibition Dead Cat Bounce at Art Lexis in New York.

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Cameron Skene est peintre, auteur et commissaire d'exposition montréalais. La construction de l'espace, l'endroit et la mémoire sont la pierre d'assise de sa pratique artistique visuelle. Ses ouvres ont été exposées autant en galeries que dans les musées à travers le Canada. En 1993, il fut le récipiendaire du London Life Young Contemporaries Purchase Award. Écrivant à la pige pour le Montréal Gazette depuis 2006, il contribue aussi régulièrement à la revue Canadian Art. Il a interviewé plusieurs figures importantes du monde artistique, nommément, Betty Goodwin et William S. Burroughs. Il tente de présenter l'art à un public plus général dans ses écrits pour The Gazette. Il aborde les tendances contemporaines, présente des profils d'artistes et écrit sur des sujets aussi variés que le vol ou le transport d'oeuvres d'art, les successions d'artistes ou encore les authentifications d'oeuvres. Ses écrits ont aussi paru dans Vie des Arts et le National Post.

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Selected articles:

FEATURES

In Profile (Montreal Gazette)- feature series on contemporary Montreal artists and their work.

- Sonic Boom, Jan 2007

- Robot Love, May 2007

- Showing Stories, Oct 2006 (PDF 8.7mb)

- Photo Synthesis, July, 2006

- Driven To Abstraction, May 2006

Montreal Gazette (news features)

Estates of Play (artists, estates and collections) March 2010

Handle With Care (international art transportation) Sept. 13, 2008