ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Cameron Haas began studying fine art at the University of Tasmania and completed his studies at the National Art School in Sydney where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in 2010. Cameron now lives and works in Canberra.

His recent work fortifies form with colour, with varying dispersion of spatial edges and flatness of paint. Although the compositions are non-narrative, they are suggestive in their simple, organic forms elicting story that is personally dependent. Cameron’s works are subjectively malleable, relationally dynamic between what they project out to an audience and what the audience projects onto the painting. In these seemingly simple compositions there is nowhere for the artist to hide. Every colour, tone, shape, intersection, and edge are considered and composed.

Each painting starts with pencil on paper as a line drawing and the initial composition must have an uncomplicated authority in how it sits on the stark white paper. Colour is added to take the composition in another direction until the pictorial space is resolved.

EDUCATION

2010 Bachelor Fine Arts with Honours, National Art School, Sydney

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Solo Exhibition, .M Contemporary, Sydney
2023 Chromascope, .M Contemporary, Sydney
2022 Resonate, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra
2022 Colour Beats, .M Contemporary, Sydney
2021 Amplify, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra
2021 Colour Shadows, .M Contemporary, Sydney
2020 Surface Tension, .M Contemporary, Sydney
2019 Shape Shifting, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra
2018 New City, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra
2013 II, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2011 17 Compositions, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, .M Contemporary, Sydney
2024 Vivid, Handmark Gallery, Hobart
2023 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, .M Contemporary, Sydney
2022 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, .M Contemporary, Sydney
2019 The Summer Show, .M Contemporary, Sydney
2017 Abstraction 16, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Life’s a Beach, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2013 Fresh from the Studio, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2012 Five Foot Square, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2012 Five Foot Square, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
2012 Fresh from the Studio 12, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2010 A Summer Exhibition, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2010 #66, Sydney Non Objective Gallery, Marrickville
2010 Degree Show, National Art School, Sydney
2009 Group Show, Robin Gibson New Talent Exhibition.

AWARDS

2009 Winner, St Vincent Collection Prize
2009 Winner, The National Art School Third Year Painting Prize
2009 Winner, The Robin Gibson New Talent Exhibition
2010 Winner, The National Art School, John McCaughey Painting Prize
2008 Winner, Friends of the National Art School Second Year Painting Prize

COMMISSIONS COLLECTIONS

2011 Ray White Kent St Head Office

COLLECTIONS

Artbank
Ray White (Sydney & Brisbane)
Allens Arthur Robinson Collection
St Vincent Hospital Collection, Sydney