Javier Cambre

Infobox Artist
name = Javier Cambre


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birthname = Xavier Evaristo Cambre
birthdate = 1966
location = San Juan, Puerto Rico
nationality = Spanish, American, Puerto Rican
field = video, photography, drawing, sculpture

Javier Cambre (born Xavier Cambre, 1966, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a contemporary artist working in diverse media such as video, photography, drawing, text and sculpture. He is the grandson of the poet Evaristo Ribera Chevremont.

After earning an Associate Degree in Science and Mathematics, Cambre studied architecture at Universidad de Puerto Rico (B. Design) and at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Dipl. Arquitecto) in Colombia. In 1998 Cambre graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Master of Fine Arts.

Cambre has exhibited his work at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, the Sculpture Center, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and the Moore Space in Miami. He has also exhibited his work in museums in Spain, Puerto Rico, Russia and Argentina. Cambre has been awarded residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, and at the National Studio Program in P.S. 1/MoMA, as well as artist grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum.

References

* [http://javiercambre.com Portfolio] Artist Site
* [http://www.artnexus.com/NewsDetail/15944 Art Nexus] by Elvis Fuentes
* [http://www.whitney.org/2002biennial/artists.html Whitney Museum] 2002 Whitney Biennial
* [http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/2307 Neo Baroque] The Hell of the Beautiful
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E6D7143EF932A15751C0A9649C8B63 NY Times] Whitney Biennial invites Architecture in
* [http://www.artpremium.com/Content/ed09/cambre.asp ArtPremium] by Ralph Vazquez ( in Spanish)
* [http://www.conboca.org/2008/01/14/el-videoarquitecto/ Cambre, Videoarquitecto] by Ralph Vazquez ( in Spanish)
* [http://www.re-title.org/exhibitions/BrooklynMuseum.asp Brooklyn Museum] Infinite Island
* [http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/artgallery/Programs/Exhibits/qccfaculty/view.asp?workID=5 CUNY] QCC Gallery
* [http://www.re-title.com/artists/javier-CAMBRE.asp Bio] images and biography
* [http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=805 NeoImages] bio and artworks