CAMILLE BILLOPS
Sculptor
Education: B.A. – California State College, 1960; M.F.A. – City College of the City University of New York, 1973; Doctorat D’Universite, La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (in progress).
One-Woman Exhibitions: 1977 Faculty Exhibition, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.; 1976 Foto-Falle Gallery, Hamburg, Germany; 1976 Amerika-Haus, Hamburg, Germany; 1974 Winston Salem North Carolina State University; 1973 Artist House (Soho), New York City; 1965 Gallerie Akhenaton, Cairo, Egypt. Group Exhibitions: 1978 Dreyfuss Gallery (graphics), Ann Arbor, Michigan; 1978 Schenectady Museum, Schenactady, N.Y.; 1978 Art Salon, New York City; 1978 Islip Town Art Gallery, N.Y.; 1978 New Orleans Museum of Art; 1978 Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York; 1977 Israel Museum, Jerusalem; 1977 Clay ’77 Art of the Potter – Goddard Riverside Center, N.Y.; 1976 Six Black American Women Artists, Bergen Community College, N.J.; 1975 I Am The Black Woman, Langston Hughes Library, L.I., N.Y.; 1975 Black Enterprise Magazine Art Exhibition, N.Y.; 1972 Studio Museum In Harlem.
Author of: “Contemporary Egyptian Art,” (article), Black Creation Annual,1974-75; The Harlem Book of The Dead, with James VanDerZee and Owen Dodson, Morgan and Morgan, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., 1978 (reviewed in The Boston Phoenix, Dec. 12, 1978, Rangefinder Jan. 1, 1979, New York Voice, Feb. 3, 1979, Umborella, Jan. 1979, II Mattina, Feb. 1979 – Naples Daily).
In the Collections of: The- Museum of Drawers, Bern, Switzerland; Photographers Gallery, London, England; Private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Hamburg, and Cairo. Grants to Hatch-Billops Collection: 1978 N.Y. State Council on the Arts; 1977 Exxon Corporation; 1977 N.Y. State Council on the Arts; 1976 N.Y. State Council on the Arts; 1975 N. Y. State Council on the Arts; 1973 N.Y. Foundation on the Arts