BIo

3D artist and filmmaker Jeremy Kamal creates modern geomyths using animation, sound, and media installation. His narrative environments challenge our understanding of ecology, culture, and technology through a radical juxtaposition of improbable elements. He is a NEW INC/ONX fellow and was previously an artist resident at the Sundance Institute, NYU ITP, Folly Tree Arboretum, and AFROTECTOPIA. As a freelance motion graphic and VFX artist, he has collaborated on projects for musicians and brands including Marine Serre, The North Face, Gucci, Trippie Redd, Yo Gotti, Sa Babi, and Lil Miquela. 

Jeremy is a design faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard GSD and a Master of Arts from SCI-Arc’s Fiction and Entertainment program.


INSTA / VIM 
jk@jeremykamal.com

Statement

What if A$AP Rocky designed a landscape? What if he and others like him shaped the future wonders of the world?

I'm a 3D artist and filmmaker who crafts raw and lush landscapes that weave the values of contemporary Black culture into fictional ecologies. I use animation, sound, and media installation to design worlds that bring improbable entities into coherent natural and synthetic systems. Using my training as an architect and landscape architect, I depict modern geomyths that restore Black identity to its origin as an “Earth Shaper”.

I am driven by my desire to challenge predominant narratives about culture, technology, and ecology. My work blurs the distinction between humans, machines, plants, and animals by placing them in productive friction and embracing the novelties that emerge. As a result, each project forces us to question our relationship to its various elements and the status quo. Collectively, my work frontiers new landscape mythologies that offer inclusive ways of engaging in discourse on climate/ environment and how we process its changes.

2022 Folly Tree Arboretum Art Residency

2021 NYU ITP Postgrad Fellow
   
2021  New Forms Residency

2020 ONX Studio Fellowship

2020 Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship

2019 Alfred P. Sload Foundation Award 

2017 Norman T. Newton Prize 

Press + Screenings

2023 TORRENTS: New Links to Black Futures

2021   Around the World Summit

2020 Archinect

2020 Dezeen Magazine

Exhibits

2023 Venice Biennale Vernissage x Metrotopia Metaverse

2022 Venice Biennale of Architecture
2020 ONX Studio Showcase