Kameron Locke
Kameron Locke is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, classically trained tenor, researcher, and educator born in Chicago and living in Hamburg. His artistic practice explores themes of sexuality, identity, patriarchy, and love within the context of Afro-diasporic and LGBTQ+ experiences. After studying classical music at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, he earned a master’s degree in musicology from Goldsmiths, University of London. Locke sang in ensembles such as the London Symphony Chorus and performed in venues that have included the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Barbican Centre, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Elbphilharmonie. His semi-biographical play about American writer James Baldwin and his German editor Fritz J. Raddatz, the Blacker the Berry / perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition, premiered at the 2024 Kampnagel International Summer Festival. His poetry has been published in translation in Parabolis Virtualis 3: Neue, Queere Lyrik. Together with the soprano Juliet Petrus, he wrote the libretto for a major opera about the African American flying squadron known as the Tuskegee Airmen, with music by composer and conductor William Garfield Walker. His interest in the impact of fascist ideologies and regimes on LGBTQ+ artists took him to Tbilisi, Georgia, where, as part of the EU initiative Culture Moves Europe, he explored possible futures for queer expression.
Kameron Locke is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2025 to January 2026.
Kameron Locke is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, classically trained tenor, researcher, and educator born in Chicago and living in Hamburg. His artistic practice explores themes of sexuality, identity, patriarchy, and love within the context of Afro-diasporic and LGBTQ+ experiences. After studying classical music at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, he earned a master’s degree in musicology from Goldsmiths, University of London. Locke sang in ensembles such as the London Symphony Chorus and performed in venues that have included the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Barbican Centre, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Elbphilharmonie. His semi-biographical play about American writer James Baldwin and his German editor Fritz J. Raddatz, the Blacker the Berry / perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition, premiered at the 2024 Kampnagel International Summer Festival. His poetry has been published in translation in Parabolis Virtualis 3: Neue, Queere Lyrik. Together with the soprano Juliet Petrus, he wrote the libretto for a major opera about the African American flying squadron known as the Tuskegee Airmen, with music by composer and conductor William Garfield Walker. His interest in the impact of fascist ideologies and regimes on LGBTQ+ artists took him to Tbilisi, Georgia, where, as part of the EU initiative Culture Moves Europe, he explored possible futures for queer expression.
Kameron Locke is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2025 to January 2026.