NEW YORK, NY.- The National Academy of Design announced visual artist Cameron Martin as the recipient of the 2026 National Academy Affiliated Fellowship (‘NAAF’) at the American Academy in Rome (‘AAR’).

The National Academy Affiliated Fellowship (NAAF) is an eight-week residency at the American Academy in Rome awarded annually by the National Academy of Design to a mid-career artist or architect. Fellows are selected for their established record of achievement; ability to live and work in a community of scholars, musicians, artists, and architects; and the appropriateness of their projects and ideas for making the best possible use of the residency.

The jury for the 2026 fellowship included Tacita Dean NA, Steve DiBenedetto NA, Sarah Oppenheimer NA, Hilary Sample NA, and Stephen Westfall NA.

The NAAF is made possible by the National Academy of Design's Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey Fund, which was established through a 1931 bequest by Gertrude Abbey in honor of her husband, Academician and muralist Edwin Austin Abbey NA, to support an artist residency in Italy.





Cameron Martin’s paintings feature overlapping and undulating forms in varying transparencies, patterns, and geometries, producing visual phenomena that tap into histories of non-objective art and present-day digital interfaces. Using a vivid chromatic palette, he employs techniques that intentionally complicate the distinction between the handmade and the mechanical, working from the foundation of abstraction towards the possibilities of representation. He received his BA from Brown University in Art/Semiotics and continued his studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Columbus Museum of Art, and City Gallery (Wellington, New Zealand). Martin is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, and a Pollock Krasner Award, among others. He is represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York. He is F. H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.