Past residency artists include Salvatore Arancio, David Raymond Conroy, Caroline Achaintre, Jesse Wine, Phoebe Cummings, Anne Hardy, Alexandre da Cunha, Emma Hart, Veronica Ryan, Sally O'Reilly, Francis Upritchard, Jonathan Baldock, Mike Nelson, Graham Gussin, Martin Creed, Vivien Blackett, Simon Starling, Adam Chodzko, Athanasios Argianas, and Walter Price.

During Lomax's time as director, Camden Arts Centre established a programme of exhibitions, including solo shows by Anya Gallaccio, Tal R, Victor Grippo, Yinka Shonibare, Hanne Darboven, Kara Walker, Eva Hesse, Laura Owens, Kerry James Marshall, and Angela de la Cruz, whose first solo exhibition in the UK, entitled After, was held at Camden Arts Centre in April and May 2010.

The building was opened in 1897 by its benefactor Sir Henry Harben, then Deputy Chairman of the Prudential Assurance Company.

The Victorian structure funded by Harben survived World War II, despite hits by incendiary bombs in 1940 and the blast from a V2 rocket in 1945.

Jenni Lomax OBE joined Camden Art Centre in 1990 and established a programme of exhibitions, residencies, artists' projects, and public events.