Craig Cameron-Mackintosh grew up in White River, Mpumalanga an environment which inspired many great South African artists including Keith Alexander and Esias Bosch. Showing a prodigious talent for drawing from an early age and despite not having studied fine art he has drawn influence from fellow South African artists. Cameron – Mackintosh moved to Cape Town in 2007 to study filmmaking at AFDA which has deeply influenced his artistic career; not only lending a sense of cinema and story to his subject matter but also informing his technique.

Craig Cameron – Mackintosh is the winner of the 2019 Sanlam Portrait Award.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
FABRIC/KEN, Prior Art Space (Cuperior Residency), Berlin, Germany

2021
Give Me Space – Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2020
Nowhere Better To Be – EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Expo Chicago, EBONY/CURATED, United States of America
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, South Africa

2022
'HIRÆTH’, Phillips x Prior Art Space, Phillips, Online Private Sale
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, South Africa

2021
‘MISA’, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
‘Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt’, Open City, Keyes Art Mile, Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa
‘8X8’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair Digital Event, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2020
'Diaspora’, White River Gallery, White River, South Africa
‘Boys Don’t Cry’, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2019
Sanlam Portrait Award 2019, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town (Overall Winner)
‘Palate, Plate, Palette’, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2018
‘The Grand IV’, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
‘The Summer Exhibition’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2017
‘The Truth About Rabbits’, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Single Fare’, Highline Stages, New York, United States of America
‘Putty in Your Hands’, Youngblood, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Elemental’, Commune1, Cape Town, South Africa

2016
‘Portraits and Selfies’, White River Gallery, White River, South Africa
‘When the Lights Dim’, Studio Dylan Thomaz, Cape Town, South Africa

2015
‘Arts Ability’, Youngblood Africa, Cape Town, South Africa