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Bonnie Camplin

b. 1970

British artist

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Born 1970. Bonnie Camplin is a British artist and lecturer.

Bonnie Camplin (born 1970) is a British artist and a fine art lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London. She was a 2015 Turner Prize nominee, nominated for the exhibition The Military Industrial Complex, which was shown at the South London Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Britain, Cabinet and the Chisenhale Gallery in London.

Education

Bonnie Camplin studied at Saint Martins School of Art, London for a BA in Fine Art Film and Video (1989–92), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Photography (1995–96).

Work Camplin has worked across film and video, photography, sculpture, painting, performance, music and drawing. She broadly describes her practice as 'the Invented Life'. From 2008 to 2010 she was guest professor at Städelschule in Frankfurt. She has collaborated with artists including Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska and was in the band DonAteller with Mark Leckey, Ed Laliq and Enrico David. 2013 No More Car Sick, Cabinet, London 2014 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool 2015 The Military Industrial Complex, South London Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions and screenings

1999 The Lux, London 2001 Roll Yer Own, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2001 Electric Blue, The Barbican, London 2002 The Difference Between Us, Five Years Gallery (Saatchi East), London 2009 When the Wind Blows Up You, Chisenhale Gallery, London 2011 Madame Realism, Marres Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht 2012 Sound works, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2013 Assembly, A survey of Recent Artists Film and Video in Britain 2008–2013, Tate Britain, London

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1970
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Saint Martin's School of Art
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Goldsmiths, University of London

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British artist

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