Dan Cameron

Dan Cameron (born 1956 in Utica, New York) is an American art curator, most recently the former Chief Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach.

Cameron's early years were spent in Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and in Hudson Falls, New York. He attended Hudson Falls Public Schools (1966–1974), Syracuse University (1975–76) and Bennington College (1977–79), where he earned a BA in 1979.

Some of Cameron's early exhibitions include Extended Sensibilities (1982, New Museum of Contemporary Art); Art and its Double (1986–87, Fundacion 'la Caixa,' Barcelona and Madrid); What is Contemporary Art? (1989, Roosem, Malmo); The Savage Garden (1991, Fundacion 'la Caixa,' Madrid); and Cocido y Crudo (1994, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid).

Cameron was senior curator at the New Museum from 1995 to 2006, where his exhibitions included survey and new-work exhibitions of David Wojnarowicz (1999), Xu Bing (1998), Martin Wong (1998), Carolee Schneemann (1998), Francesco Vezzoli (2002), Carroll Dunham (2002), Teresita Fernández, William Kentridge (2001), Cildo Meireles (1999–2000), Los Carpinteros (1998), Nalini Malani (2002-3), Christian Marclay, Paul McCarthy (2001), Cildo Meireles (1999–2000), Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (2003), Marcel Odenbach (1998), Pierre et Gilles (2000–2001), Ana Prada (1998), Faith Ringgold (1998), Doris Salcedo (1998), John Salvest (1998), Rivane Neuenschwander (1998), Bili Bidjocka (1998), and Eugenio Dittborn (1997). Cameron also organized group exhibitions such as Living Inside the Grid (2003) and East Village USA (2004).

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