Ainsley Cameron

Ainsley Cameron

Program

CCL Class of 2023

Institution

Cincinnati Art Museum

Title

Curator of South Asian Art, Islamic Art, and Antiquities

Institution at time of Fellowship

Cincinnati Art Museum

Mentor

Martha Tedeschi, Harvard Art Museums

Ainsley M. Cameron is Curator of South Asian Art, Islamic Art and Antiquities at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where she recently directed the renovation and reinstallation of the museum’s Ancient Middle East galleries (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, opened 2021), as well as the galleries of Islamic and South Asian art (opened 2022). Cameron is Chair of the museum’s Digital Committee, and has published, delivered lectures, and organized numerous exhibitions highlighting the historic and contemporary arts of India and the Islamic world. In 2019 Cameron organized Women Breaking Boundaries, a two-part, cross-collection exhibition that examined the museum’s engagement with female-identified artists. Current projects include Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art (opened Nov. 2022) and Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior (scheduled 2025).

Cameron completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2010. She holds an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, and a BA in Archaeology and History from the University of Toronto. Cameron has previously held curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, the British Library, and the Bata Shoe Museum.

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