Michael Cameron’s manipulated photographs, paintings, collages, and appropriated images link personal experiences of tragedy, loss, and queer nostalgia with fractured childhood memories.

In 2015, Michael sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury — his creative process dramatically altered due to ensuing aphasia and paralysis. In his work, he reveals the impact of his extreme mental experiences. Consequently, there exists in his work a physical process of destruction and restructuring. Often ambiguous in nature, he meticulously explores the polarities between subjects held dear and the brute force of impairment, capturing a magnified struggle between remembering and forgetting.

Michael Cameron's work is in the Robert Summers Permanent Collection of Queer Art at Cerritos College Art Gallery in California. He currently lives and works in Indiana.