Camryn Maher is a mixed media and installation artist, creating work about emotional connection and navigating nature, others and herself as a chronically ill disabled person.
I create artwork exploring my emotional connections with myself, others, and the world around me. I maintain a process-based, research-focused, multi-disciplinary art practice grounded in collective and individual connections. I am motivated by memories, feelings, and experiences, my existence as a part of nature, and my reality navigating these as a chronically ill disabled person. I focus on processes such as time-based collecting, conscious and subconscious ritual, and personal research in service of data collection. In my artwork, themes of vulnerability, recognition, and repetition demonstrate a need for increased awareness and empathy in movements throughout the world around us.
Originally from the Great Basin, Maher graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Visual Art. Maher’s work and curatorial projects have been featured in group and solo exhibitions at venues including Sheppard Contemporary, Holland Project, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Sierra Arts Depot Gallery, Studio 540, and the Winchester Dondero Cultural Center. In collaboration with research groups, her work has been published in practical interdisciplinary research projects internationally. Maher is a founding member of the Reno-based art collective ART PARK Reno. Currently, she serves on faculties at the University of Nevada, Reno and Great Basin College.