Cameron Harris is a filmmaker, educator, and visual artist whose practice is built around a single question: what happens when Black creativity moves through the world?
He is Chair of the Black Studies Department and Associate Professor at California State University Channel Islands, where he help build the department from the ground up, designing its curriculum, and establishing it as a recognized academic unit within the CSU system. He holds an MFA in Film from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, a combination that is rare in higher education and central to his approach: artistic vision held accountable by strategic thinking.
His photography exhibition, Perception Over Parameters: A Black Aesthetic Journey, shot entirely on a Google Pixel 10 Pro, opened in a historic Black church in Richmond, Virginia during Black History Month and has since traveled to The Holy Art Gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo, Arrival Gallery in Osaka, and Arrival Gallery in London. A video installation, Kissed by the Sun, shot on a GoPro and scored by British producer Sugi Wa, was featured in the official Arrival Gallery Osaka catalogue and premiered as an immersive audiovisual work in April 2026.
His documentary Monday Film School, a portrait of young international filmmakers pursuing graduate education at NYU Tisch Asia, premiered at the Indie Shorts Film Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is now the subject of a national campus screening campaign. His op-ed Degrees of Doubt: Black Studies and the Future of the American University has been submitted to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Harris appeared on CBS 6 Virginia This Morning in March 2026, spoke on the industry-to-academia panel at the Broadcast Education Association conference, and is in discussion with the Spoken Soul Collective for the City of Toronto's FIFA World Cup 2026 cultural programming. The camera is never the point. Perception is.