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Gabo Camnitzer Associate Professor, Art Education Director of Saturday Studios, Youth Programs
A smiling man in a blue shirt stands indoors with a gray squirrel perched on his shoulder. Framed pictures and a red devil figurine are visible on the wall in the background.
  • email gcamnitzer@massart.edu
  • education
    • MFA, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
    • Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY

Gabo Camnitzer is an artist and educator working across experimental pedagogy, installation, and video. Camnitzer’s work revolves around questions of education and knowledge exchange, often focusing on childhood to examine the societal structures that surround and shape subjectivity. Camnitzer is Associate Professor of Art Education and Director of the Saturday Studios Program for children at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. He has previously held teaching positions at UMass Dartmouth, Columbia University, Valand Academy, Sweden, as well as public elementary schools in New York City. He has presented projects at venues such as Pivô, São Paulo; PPOW, New York; Queens Museum, New York; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Momentum Biennale, Moss, Norway; Hacer Noche, Oaxaca; Kunstsaele, Berlin; GfZK, Leipzig; Artists Space, New York; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Gertrude Contemporary Art Center, Melbourne; Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay. He received his MFA from Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, USA. He sits on the editorial board of the Swedish Art Journal, Paletten.

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