Camille Roos
camillebyhand@gmail.com

b. 1991 in Redwood City, CA

Camille Roos is an intuitive painter and public artist whose work conveys the metaphysical qualities of place. Based in Massachusetts, Camille’s art is the result of immersing herself in conversation with the living landscape and subtle realm.



Camille was born to a Dutch-Quebecois family of inventors, doctors, sailors, and mystics who inspired her connection to materiality. She went on to study Tibetan Buddhism, energy medicine, primitive skills, and death-work while mothering two children as a young adult.

Her pieces emerge as dynamic, musical portraits — invoking color, form, and texture as information, attuning viewers to their primary, sensory intelligence. 

Camille approaches her work receptively — responding to somatic cues from her environment to convey the coarseness, luminescence, or line-work of intangible subjects that are present in place.

Experiential installations further expand her artistic practice, where Camille creates outdoor sanctuaries for public contemplation using found material harvested on-site. 

︎︎paintings




︎︎ installations


Our Home, 2025, TurnPark Art Space, West Stockbridge.

This sculpture is an invitation to consider human vs animal impact on our habitat via commercial and domestic waste, as well as wastewater. Using reclaimed materials that are commonly disposed of by the building industry, it compares the relative permanence of what humans leave behind with an innately transient and delicate web of animal tracks. 



Water Rites, 2025, Center for Peace Through Culture, Housatonic.

A multidisciplinary art exhibit exploring the broader environmental and cultural implications of water rights and clean water access in regard to the Housatonic River and a compromised public water system. 


Phenotype, 2024, Prisma LX, Lisbon.

A pop up outdoor installation featuring large sensory maps inspired by visual data that was collected in the city of Lisbon. Works include ‘Safira,’ ‘Door Knocker,’ ‘Pelin’s House,’ and ‘Ceiling Shadows.’



Esau’s Heel Trail, 2023, Town of Becket.

Custom hand-painted trail signs fill otherwise empty spaces within the gated entrance of an abandoned property development site that was converted to a local trail system. Signs read: “conserving our forests” and “protecting our wetlands” to promote the Town of Becket’s environmental efforts in maintaining wild spaces for public use. 


Homage to the Afterlife, 2019, Laurel Hill Association, Stockbridge.

Held on All Soul's Day, this public art installation featured a community ancestor altar, planetary gong bath by Sarah Bassin, keynote speaker + funeral director Amy Cunningham's "On the Abiding Soul and Role of Reflective Ritual," local art exhibit, guided lantern walk, and live astronomy event by Rick Costello. Documented by Augusta Rose Photography


Rites of Passage, 2013, Rogue Angel Theatre, Whitney Center for the Arts.

A three-day art installation and experimental theatre production by Pooja Prema celebrating the rites of passage in a woman's life from birth until death. Camille curated the Maiden and Pregnancy Rooms, installed paintings throughout the building, recited poetry, and danced while pregnant as part of the performance.


Babayan Culture House
, 2010, Cappadocia Turkey.

Artist in residence program focusing on hidden shapes within the Cappadocian landscape. Paintings installed in a cave overlooking the valley.



Education & Training

2024 Color as a Way to the Spirit, Free Columbia

2023 Cultural Equity Learning Community, Arts Connect International

2023 Making it Public for Massachusetts Artists, Forecast Public Art

2018 Hospice Volunteer Training, Hospice Care of the Berkshires

2018 Professional End of Life Doula Certification, UVM Larner College of Medicine

2018 Reiki Master Practitioner, Sanctuary Healing Arts

2017 Advanced Energy & Crystal Healer, Sanctuary Healing Arts

2015 Wilderness First Aid & CPR Training, SOLO Schools

2015 Wilderness Instructor Training, Wild Earth

2013 B.A. Individualized Studies, Goddard College

2010 A.A. with distinction, Bard College at Simon’s Rock

Solo & Group Shows
2025
Our Home
TurnPark Art Space

2025
Water Rites
Center for Peace Through Culture

2025
SELFHEAL
Center for Peace Through Culture

2024
Phenoshade
Prisma LX

2024
Nature & Nurture
Wistariahurst Museum

2024
Figurative Work
Stockbridge Coffee Shop

2024
Abstract Work
Stockbridge Library

2023
The Body / The Self
Wistariahurst Museum

2023
Featured Artist
Heart in Hand Tattoo

2022
Rural Berkshires
Dewey Hall

2019
Homage to the Afterlife
Laurel Hill Village Association

2017
Dreamspeak
The Dream Away Lodge

2016
30Under30
No. Six Depot

2013
Rites of Passage Curator & Performing Artist
Rogue Angel Theatre

2010
Artist in Residence
Babayan Culture House

Press

Water Rites
Berkshire Edge, by Shaw Israel Isikson
2025

Solo Creatives of the Berkshires
Community Television of Southern Berkshires, by Sherry Steiner
2024

Art as Mirror
Freecoaster Creative Studio, by Wes DeShano
2023


Contact:
camillebyhand@gmail.com