Donald Camp
Donald E. Camp is an American artist, photographer, and professor of photography at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Camp holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Camp is notable for his portraits that explore the dignity and nobility that can be found in the human face, particularly those of African American men. Camp’s unique printing methods are based on early 19th Century non-silver photographic processes. He has adapted these processes to use photosensitized casein and earth pigments, essentially dust, to produce his photographs. His work has been collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Donald Camp currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
Solo exhibitions
- 2008-09 Dust Shaped Hearts - New Orleans, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
- 2007 Dust Shaped Hearts, Coleman Center for the Arts, York, AL
- 2006 Dust Shaped Hearts, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
- 2004-05 Dust Shaped Hearts, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
- 2000 What do you Want, It’s Only a Question, Haverford Station, Haverford, PA
- 1998 Dust Shaped Hearts, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
- 1997 Dust Shaped Hearts Revisited, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1997 Dust Shaped Hearts, Bedford-Stuyvesant Center for Art and Culture, Brooklyn, NY
- 1997 Dust Shaped Hearts, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
- 1996 Dust Shaped Hearts, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC
- 1995 Dust Shaped Hearts, Swarthmore College, List Gallery, Swarthmore, PA
- 1994 Washington Center for Photography, Washington D.C.
- 1994 The William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
- 1993 Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
- 1993 Manchester Craft Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1992 Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1990 Gallery One, Western Maryland University, MD
- 1990 Dust Shaped Hearts, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1989 Temple University Center City Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1989 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Group exhibitions
- 2008 Emerging to Established: Twenty-Five Years of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 2008 When Photography and Printmaking Collide, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- 2005 The Chemistry of Color, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA
- 2004 Screenings/Public & Private, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
- 2004 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
- 2001 5th Annual National Black Fine Art Show, Puck Building, Soho, NY
- 2001 Time Lapse, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 2000 Absence of Color, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia PA
- 2000 COLOR: NBFAE 2000, Chicago, IL
- 2000 Fourth Annual National Black Fine Arts Show, Puck Bldg, New York, NY
- 1999 New Spirits: Contemporary Artists From Philadelphia, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
- 1999 Wall To Wall Nudes, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1999 Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1999 3rd Annual National Black Fine Art Show, Soho, NY
- 1999 Portraiture: Not By Definition, Westby Gallery, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
- 1998 2nd National Black Fine Art Show, SoHo, NY
- 1998 Beyond Color, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
- 1997 Faith Through the Eyes of Child and Man, University of the Arts, Wagman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1997 Celebration ‘97, Philadelphia Museum of Art Dining Room, Philadelphia, PA
- 1997 Just Jazz, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
- 1996 Philadelphia Selections 2, Levy Gallery for the Arts, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1996 Art of the State: Pennsylvania ‘96, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
- 1996 Million Man March, Del Pryor Gallery, Detroit, MI
- 1996 Photo Works, Nexus Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
- 1996 Just Jazz, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1996 Just Jazz, Dining Room of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
- 1995 Photo Sensitive, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1995 Beyond Stereotypes, Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA
- 1995 Blacks in the Arts Gallery at the BCC, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
- 1994 Face to Face / Bridges and Boundaries, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
- 1994 Atlanta Gallery of Photography, Atlanta, GA
- 1993 The Alternative Eye, Photo Art for the 90’s, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
- 1993 Encounters of Different Worlds, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
- 1993 Ester Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1993 Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- 1993 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- 1993 Politics of Image, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
- 1992 First in the Heart is the Dream, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
- 1992 Atlanta Gallery of Photography, Atlanta, GA
- 1992 Hampton Institute, Hampton, VA
- 1991 SPE Mid-Atlantic Exhibition, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
- 1991 Hard Choices - Just Rewards II, Pennsylvania State Arts Fellowship Exhibition; Johnstown Art Museum, Blair Art Museum, University of Pittsburgh, Everhart Museum, Edinburgh University of Pennsylvania, Westminster College, The University of the Arts
- 1991 Transpired Realities, Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA
- 1991 30 Frames, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1991 Alternative Museum, New York, NY
- 1991 JBLB Museum, Dallas, TX
- 1990 Art Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1990 Selections of African-American Works From the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1989 Works from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1986-89 Philadelphia Photographers International, Tianjin, China; Bahia, Brazil
- 1983 Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1982 58th International Competition, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
- 1982 Black Photographers, Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Grants
- Honickman Foundation Grant, 2008
- Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship for painting, 1997
- Art of the State: Pennsylvania ‘96, Photography Award Winner in 1996
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1995
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1995
- Pew Fellowships in the Arts in 1995
- Pennsylvania Visual Arts Fellow in 1995
- Advisory Board of the Creative Artist Network in 1995
- Pew Charitable Trust: Fellowship in the Arts Discipline Winner in 1994
- Pew Regional Visiting Artists Fellowship for the American Academy in Rome in 1994
- Pew/ American Academy in Rome fellowship in 1993
- Pennsylvania Visual Artist Fellow in 1993
- Pennsylvania Visual Artist Fellow in 1991
- American Artist Oral History Smithsonian Institution in 1991