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Camille Billops

1933

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Camille Billops was an American sculptor and filmmaker whose installations integrated archival materials, printmaking, and found objects to interrogate African-American history and family memory. Working across bronze casting, collage, and video, she created immersive environments that functioned simultaneously as sculpture and documentary. Her practice was inseparable from her role as an archivist and educator, using exhibition and installation as modes of historical preservation and collective testimony.

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Artworks (5)

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Untitled (Scalloped Edge Bowl)

1981 · Glazed ceramic

Overall: 17 × 17 3/8 × 17 1/4 in. (43.2 × 44.1 × 43.8 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

For Japanese with Mirrors

1975 · Etching and aquatint, relief printed

sheet: 22 1/4 × 16 15/16" (56.5 × 43 cm); plate: 15 5/8 × 11 7/8" (39.7 × 30.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

For Japanese with Mirrors

1975 · Etching and aquatint, relief printed

sheet: 22 1/4 × 14 15/16" (56.5 × 38 cm); plate: 15 11/16 × 11 7/8" (39.8 × 30.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

I am Black, I am Black, I am Dangerously Black

1974 · Etching and aquatint, relief printed

plate: 11 7/8 × 17" (30.2 × 43.2 cm); sheet: 22 × 29 7/8" (55.9 × 75.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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I am Black, I am Black, I am Dangerously Black

1973 · etching and aquatint with chine collé on Arches wove paper

Platemark: 30.1 x 43 cm (11 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 56.5 x 76 cm (22 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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I am Black, I am Black, I am Dangerously Black
1973 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Art Institute of Chicago

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Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

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