Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

Bio

María Magdalena Campos-Pons is a Cuban-born visual artist. Campos-Pons works primarily in photography, performance, audiovisual media, and sculpture. She grew up on a sugar plantation in La Vega, Cuba in a family with Nigerian, Hispanic, and Chinese roots and her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her polyglot heritage. Her autobiographical work moves through themes of history, memory, gender, and religion as they inform one’s identity. She has gained an international reputation as an exponent of the New Cuban Art movement that arose in opposition to Communist repression on the island. She currently teaches drawing, performance, and installation at Vanderbilt University. In 2019 she is serving as artist-curator for the Havana Art Biennial in Cuba.