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Camille Eskell exhibits her work extensively in solo and group shows throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Mexico and South America. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, such as the Hudson River Museum (NY), Chrysler Museum of Art (VA), Housatonic Museum of Art (CT), and Islip Art Museum (NY). She received an Artist Fellowship Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, as well as fellowships in drawing and painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, respectively.

Eskell has been featured in reviews and publications including The New York Times, CT Post, The Hartford Courant, Art New England, and the Huffington Post, and online journals Art Spiel, Posit 19 and Ante Mag. Currently maintaining a studio through with  the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, NY, her residencies include the Weir Farm National Historic Site and the Vermont Studio Center. Eskell holds an MFA from Queens College/CUNY and lives in the greater New York area.

Recent group exhibitions include Seeking Joy, at the Bernard Heller Museum, Re)Work It! Women Artists on Women’s Labor at the Mattatuck Museum (CT), AUTONOMOUS, at the  Doral Museum of Contemporary Art (FL), We Got the Power at The CAMP Gallery, Miami (FL), Every Woman Biennial at La Mama Galleria (NYC), Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse III at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee (WI), and Framing the Female Gaze: Women Artists and the New Historicism at Lehman College Art Gallery (NY). Other notable shows include include Tradition Interrupted, an exhibition of international artists that toured the U.S. from 2021 through 2024, Cycles of Nature, Highlights from the Collections of the Hudson River Museum and Art Bridges, Hudson River Museum, (NY), Alien Nations at the Coral Gables Museum, Miami (FL), Women’s Sphere (Is Wherever She Makes Good) 6 Artists at the Weir Farm National Historic site (CT), Between I and Thou at the Hudson Valley MOCA (NY).

Solo shows include The Fez as Storyteller at the Brandeis University/Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (MA; online/pandemic) and The Fez as Storyteller at Lockhart Gallery, SUNY Geneseo, among others (NY).