Damian Stamer
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BIO
Damian Stamer (b. 1982, Durham, North Carolina) received his BFA from Arizona State University as a National Merit scholar and his MFA from UNC Chapel Hill as a Jacob K. Javitz fellow. He studied at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design as a Rotary Ambassadorial scholar and at the University of Fine Arts Budapest as a Fulbright grantee. Stamer was awarded the Budapest Art Factory International Artist Residency and the North Carolina Arts Council Arts Fellowship in 2017 and 2014, respectively. Stamer meticulously explores the intricacies of time, memory, and the transient nature of existence. He engages with a spectrum of influences that include the natural processes of decay and entropy, the intuitive practice of autonomic mark making, and the silent narrative of abandonment and ruin, all while drawing insights from meditation, psychology, and the study of consciousness. Stamer's images capture the inevitable flux of time and the ephemeral quality of our experiences, reflecting on the unavoidable change that shapes our perception of the world.
Stamer has been exhibited by The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary, Bentonville, AR; The School: Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; and Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC. Stamer's work is in the permanent collections of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Kunstwerk Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen, Germany; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, and The Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC. Stamer lives and works in Durham, North Carolina.
