Crystal Z Campbell
Artist Bio
Crystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descent. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets — fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Campbell’s works use underloved archival material to consider historical gaps and the optics of historical transmission –– questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks' “immortal” cell line to gentrification and cultural preservation via a 35mm film relic salvaged from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn. Campbell’s creative practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, film, writing, and installations that are often site-responsive.
Campbell was the recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, a 2022 Creative Capital Award, Pollock-Krasner and Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship. Campbell’s artwork and moving image have screened and exhibited internationally: Artists Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Bemis, Walker Art Center, European Media Art Festival (EMAF), The Drawing Center, Nest, ICA-Philadelphia, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), BLOCK Museum, REDCAT, Artissima, Studio Museum of Harlem, Bemis, Project Row Houses, SculptureCenter, EMPAC, and DocLisboa, amongst others. Other honors include MAP Fund, MacDowell, Skowhegan, Rijksakademie, Whitney ISP, Black Spatial Relics, and Franklin Furnace Award. Campbell’s artwork and films are held by MIT List Center, Duke University, MAG Rochester, Harvard University, and other collections in the US and abroad.
Artist Work
Title: Ode to the Underloved
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Installation
Description: A site-specific video installation at Artists Space, featuring a customized walkway, and immersive sound and video.
Title: Where Are The Stars?
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Painting/Collage
Description: Mixed-media painting and collage on wood, incorporating archival photograph.
Title: Model Citizen
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Installation, Video
Description: Site-specific installation including custom banners, sound, and video.
Location
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