Robert Campbell’s body of work includes video art, digital media, multi-media performance, installation, and documentary film. Since 1984, his single-channel video art work has been exhibited at festivals and exhibitions in the U.S., Europe and Japan. For the past 28 years his new media, installation and digital print work has been featured regionally and nationally at the Frye Art Museum, Whatcom Museum, Kittredge Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, 911 Media Arts Center, COCA, Fuel Gallery, SOIL Gallery, Kirkland Art Center, Peeler Art Center, Commencement Art Gallery, MOV-iN Gallery, Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Museum of Northwest Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art, and included in the 2012 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) and nine of the past eleven annual Currents Santa Fe International New Media Festivals. His video/dance/music collaborations have been featured at On the Boards, Bumbershoot, Cornish Playhouse, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, MOXSonic Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival and Lincoln Center. He has produced documentaries in the U.S., Italy, Ukraine, Cambodia, Zambia and South Africa, with excerpts of his work in Africa selected for the Journey to Planet Earth series on the PBS network. He was the 2016 Astra Zarina Fellow with The Civita Institute in central Italy; Artist-In-Residence at: Pilchuck Glass School (2006, '07) and Centrum (2000, '05 and '09) in Washington State; and Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland (2000). A core faculty member of the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington since 1991, he has taught courses in video art, new media, documentary, animation, digital imaging, experimental cinema, video for dance, and video installation. In 2012 he founded the Institute of Emergent Technology + Intermedia (iET+I) at Cornish. Campbell received his BFA and MFA degrees from the School of Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts.
· SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Berlin International Art Film Festival; 17th Athens Animfest 2022 (2nd Prize) [OFFICIAL SELECTION]
2021 Parallel Trajectories: Works On Paper (with David Stout), Currents 826 Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (TWO-PERSON)
2021 Currents 2021 International New Media Festival, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM [INVITATIONAL]
2019 Bellwether 2019, Bellevue, WA [INVITATIONAL]
2019 Faculty Exhibition, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA [GROUP]
2018 Yellowfish Durational Festival, LoveCityLove, Seattle, WA [INVITATIONAL]
2017 Currents 2017 International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM [INVITATIONAL]
2015 Bellingham National 2015 Art Exhibition & Awards, (2nd Prize & Popular Choice award), Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA [JURIED]
2015 Currents 2015 International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM [INVITATIONAL]
2015 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2015, Zane/Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM [INVITATIONAL]
2014 Currents 2014 International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM [INVITATIONAL]
2014 Robert Campbell & Preston Wadley, Main Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [TWO-PERSON]
2014 Fluid Destination, (collaboration-Yuki Nakamura), CultureFix, New York [INVITATIONAL]
2013 Currents 2013 International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM [INVITATIONAL]
2013 Digital Art: A New Generation, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Bainbridge Island, WA [JURIED GROUP]
2013 Chamber Music, Frye Art Museum, Seattle [INVITATIONAL]
2013 Kukai, (collaboration-Yuki Nakamura), Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma [TWO-PERSON]
2012 Currents 2012 International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM [INVITATIONAL]
2012 Kukai: Sea and Sky, (collaboration-Yuki Nakamura), SOIL Gallery, Seattle [INVITATIONAL]
2011 Art Faculty Exhibition, Main Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [GROUP]
2011 Currents 2011 International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM [INVITATIONAL]
2011 Three Dimensional Line, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA [INVITATIONAL]
2011 The Way We Move, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN [INVITATIONAL]
2010 Currents 2010 International Digital Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM [INVITATIONAL]
2010 Art Faculty Exhibition, Main Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [GROUP]
2008 Yellow, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle [TWO-PERSON]
2008 Mark Makers, Main Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [GROUP]
2007 Affect/Effect: Adventures in Image, Light and Glass, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA [INVITATIONAL]
2006 floating plaster/city motion, 2006 New Works Laboratory, (collaboration-Yuki Nakamura), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Peeler Art Center,
DePauw University, Greencastle, IA [JURIED TWO-PERSON]
2006 SHARD, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle [INVITATIONAL]
2006 Motion Photographs, MOV-iN Gallery, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM [INVITATIONAL SOLO]
2005 New Work, Main Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [SOLO]
2004 Haecceity, Main Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [GROUP]
2002 and there was concrete skin for your face, Jack Straw Productions, Seattle [SOLO]
2001 double-blind: II, Fisher Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, (collaboration-Maureen Whiting) Seattle [SOLO]
2000 double-blind, Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA [GROUP]
1999 Two Timepieces, Fisher Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [SOLO]
1997 Holiday Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle [GROUP]
1997 Celebrity: Figures of Worship, Fame, Fortune, Heroism,& Infamy, Bumbershoot ‘97, Seattle [GROUP]
1997 Penetrating Image, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ [GROUP]
1996 The Dormant Image (with Jon Gierlich), Fisher Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [TWO-PERSON]
1996 New Work, Fisher Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [SOLO]
1995 Provence Series, Fuel Gallery, Seattle [SOLO]
1995 Esprit d’Escalier, Fuel Gallery, Seattle [SOLO]
1994 Mass Intentions II, Fuel Gallery, Seattle [SOLO]
1994 Ventana Studies, Fuel Gallery, Seattle [SOLO]
1994 New Work, Fisher Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [SOLO]
1993 New Work, Fisher Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle [SOLO]
1987 Epiphany, New Music Los Angeles Festival, Los Angeles [GROUP]
· INTERMEDIA (selected video/performance)
2019 Manifold2, live-performed video projection in collaboration - musician Tom Baker, MOXsonic Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival;
Cornish College of the Arts; and The Chapel, Seattle
2016 Her Name Is Isaac, live-performed video projection in collaboration - choreographer Veronica Lee, Cornish Presents Series, Cornish
Playhouse, Seattle
2005 Geography, set design/video projection in collaboration - Scott/Powell Performance, On The Boards, Seattle
2005 Vessel, set design/video projection in collaboration - Scott/Powell Performance, On The Boards, Seattle
2004 jane, video projection in collaboration - choreographer Veronica Lee, Northwest New Works, On The Boards, Seattle
2003 Kingdom, video projection in collaboration - Scott/Powell Performance, On The Boards, Seattle
2002 To Restrain the Pillow, video projection in collaboration -choreographer Veronica Lee, Northwest New Works, On The Boards, Seattle
2001 wreck tangle, video projection in collaboration - choreographer Maureen Whiting, 2000/2001 New Performance Series, On The Boards, Seattle
2000 ROOM: A Performance in the Midst of Art Outside, music/dance/video performance with Stuart Dempster and Ensemble ROOM, Port Angeles Fine
Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
1998 Seeing With Both Eyes Closed, video projection - in collaboration with choreographer Maureen Whiting, 1998 Northwest New Works, On The
Boards, Seattle
1997 Ghost Voices, dance, music, projection - collaboration with Scott/Powell Performance, On The Boards, Seattle
· VIDEO (selected single-channel work)
2021 Journal Entry, experimental 3D animation/dance film (music by Steve Peters), 2022 Berlin International Art Film Festival, 2022 Athens Animfest, 2022 Screen Power Film Festival
2019 Manifold, composited digital film
2019 Solastalgia, single-channel version of 4-channel synchronized triptych, 2022 Berlin International Art Film Festival
2016 Schizzotecchi, experimental video
2012 Pulchrior in Luce, feature-length composited digital film
2007 Delta of C16H22O4, video short (Jarrad Powell, composer)
2005 Redress, dance video, (Maureen Whiting, choreographer)
2005 Tilt, short animation (Jarrad Powell, composer)
2004 Eidolon, short animation (Jarrad Powell, composer)
2002 A Clear Day and No Memories, dance video (Maureen Whiting, choreographer)
1988 The Birds of Appetite, experimental video, Montbeliard International Video Competition (Artist Award), Montbeliard, France; WRO Festival,
National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland; Contemporary Arts Center, Warsaw, Poland; Long Beach Museum of Art
1985 Gocara Mondo, experimental video, Marin County National Video Competition (First Prize), San Raphael, CA; Espoon Kaupungin
Kulttuuritoimisto, Espoo, Finland; JVC International Film Festival (Artist Award), Tokyo, Japan
1984 Huascaran, experimental video, IMAGE Film and Video Festival, Atlanta, GA