Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Born: 1959 Matanzas, Cuba
Creates art about identity and memory
Education:
Massachusetts College of Art, Painting, Media Arts, Boston, MA
1985 Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Painting, Havana, Cuba
1980 National School of Art, Havana, Cuba
Currently teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Solo Exhibitions:
2010 Belonging and Longing - Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Works on Paper, Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
2009 Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Hope, Yes We Can, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Works on Paper, Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Life Has Not Even Begun, Glass Curtain
Gallery at Columbia University, Chicago, IL
2007 Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything is Separated by Water, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything is Separated by Water, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
2006 New Work, Gallery Pack, Milan, Italy
2005 Backyard Dreams, Julie Saul Gallery New York, NY
New Work, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Pan African Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Bahia Brazil
2004 3X3 Dak'Art Bienale: Threads of Memory, Dakar, Senegal Talking Pictures New Work, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Elevata, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Something New, Something Old, Schneider Gallery Chicago IL
2003 Interiority or Hill Sided Moon, La Marrana, Montemarcello, Italy
One Thousand Ways to Say Goodbye, Henie Onstad, Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
2002 M.M. Campos-Pons, Gallery Pack, Milan, Italy
2001 Nesting, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Nesting, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
99-00 Meanwhile the Girls Were Playing, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1998 Unfolding Desires, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Spoken Softly with Mama, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada
History of People. . . Part I, "A Tonw Portrait," Lehman College, NJ
M.M. Campos-Pons, Sustenance, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Abridor de Caminos, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
M.M. Campos-Pons, New Work, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
When I am not Here. Estoy Alla, The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
When I am not Here. Estoy Alla, The Caribbean Cultural Center, New York, NY
1996 M.M. Campos-Pons, New Work, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 History of People Who Were Not Heroes, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Recent Work, Miami Dade Community College Gallery, Miami, FL
1993 Let me Tell You, INTAR, Latin American Gallery, New York, NY
Racially Inscribed Body, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Como el Cuerpo de un Hombre es un Arbol … / … How the Body of a Person is a Tree …, Gallery La Centrale/Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada
1991 Amuletos/Amulets, Burnaby Art Gallery, B.C., Canada
Sangre Negra/Black Blood, Gallery Burning, Montreal, Canada
A Woman at the border/Una Mujer en la Frontera, SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, NY
1990 A Woman at the Border/Una Mujer en la Frontera, Presentation Room JPL Building, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario, Canada
1989 Isla/Island, Castillo de la Fuerza/Castle of Royal Force, Havana, Cuba
1988 Erotic Garden or Some Annotations on Hypocrisy/Jardin Erotico, Kennedy Building Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Group Exhibitions:
2010
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, TATE Liverpool, Liverpool, England
2009
Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY
2008
Dreaming of an Island, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2007
Everything is Separated by Water, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
2006
Dipersed MoAD SanFrancisco CA
Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
2005
Getting Emotional, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Pan African Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Bahia Brazil
RAMPA - Signaling New Latin American Art Initiatives, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Some Color: A Color Photography Exhibition, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Dreaming Now, The Rose Museum, Brandeis, Waltham, MA
Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY
Dispersed, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
ARCO International Art Fair, Galleria Pack, Madrid, Spain Palm Beach Art Fair, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl
2004
Dak'Art, the Biennial of Contemporary African Art, 6th edition, Dakar, Senegal
Visualizing Diaspora/ Constructing Self, GASP Gallery Artists Studio Projects, Brookline, MA
Art Basel, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2003
De lo que soy/Of what Iam, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Remberence Fields, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
Inside/Outside, Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Only Skin Deep, ICP, New York, NY Chicago Art Fair, Galleria Pack, Chicago, IL
2002
Art Through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
Portrait as Performance, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
2001
Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa in and Out Africa, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum Eki, Kyoto; Tkamatsu City Museum of Art Japan Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan
2000
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Visibility, Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
The Likeness of Being, Contemporary Self Portraiture by 60 Women Artists, DC Moore Gallery, NY
The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper Annual Exhibition, NB, NJ, Religion, Contemporary Interpretations by Women, The Art Gallery University of New Hampshire, NH
1999
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK
Uncommon Perspectives, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
Spirit Manifest, Religious Imagery in Current Boston Art, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
2002
Desde el Cuerpo, Alegoria de lo Femenino, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Ritual Acts Videos by Women, Decordova Museum, MA
Croosing/Traversee, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada
1997
Trade Routes, Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Invasion, Saaremaa Biennale, Kuressaare, Estonia
Caribbean Vision: Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, Smithsonian, Washington DC
The Constructed Photograph, Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Ma
The Portrait as Object / The Figure as Ground, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Wadsworth Atheneum, CT
1996
Skin, M.M. Campos-Pons & Sandy Slone, Crieger/Dane Gallery, Boston, MA
Grifu, Campos-Pons, Carlos Cardenas, Tomas Esson, C.M.A.C., Cambridge, MA
Latin American Artists, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Center for the Fine Arts, FL
Witness, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal Quebec, Edmontan Art Gallery, Alberta, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Latin American Women Artists, 1915 - 1995, Denver Art Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
My Magic Pours Secret Libations, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl
1995
Latin American Women Artists, 1915 - 1995, Milwaukee Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, NM
Cuba, La Isla Posible, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain
Human/Nature, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1994
Rejoining the Spiritual: The Land in Latin American Art, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Fotofest, International Festival of Photography, George R. Brown Convention Center, TX
Transcending the Borders of Memory, Norton Gallery & School of Art, FL
1993
Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Witness, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Seventh Triennial Exhibition, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Memos for the Next Millennium, Boston Center for the Arts & the Space, Boston, MA
4 Artists Edition, The Space, Boston, MA
The Year of the White Bear, (a project of Guillermo Gomez Peña/Coco Fusco), Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
El Corazon Sangrante/The Bleeding Heart, Fundacion Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1992
Ways to See: New Art From Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Year of the White Bear, The Walker Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Our View of Struggle, Gallery 44, Center for Contemporary Photographs, Toronto, Canada
Ethos, The York Quay Gallery, Harbor Front, Toronto, Canada
El Corazon Sangrante/The Bleeding Heart, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA
1991
Africa in America, Traveling Show from 4th Biennial of Havana, Spain IV Biennial de La Havana, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
El Corazon Sangante/The Bleeding Heart, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Senki Sem Sziget/No Man is an Island, Ernst Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary
1990
Cuba OK, Stadische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
No Man is an Island: Young Cuban Art, Porin Taidesmuseo, Finland, Flaffy Palace, Vienna, Austria
The Sculptural Object, Center for the Development of Visual Art, Havana, Cuba
Contemporary Art from Havana, Contemporary Art Museum of Sevilla, Spain
1989
Contemporary Art from Havana, Riverside Studios, London, UK, Aberstwyth Arts Centre, Dyfed, Wales
Made in Havana, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisborne, Australia
Raices en Accion, Nuevos Artistas Cubanos/Roots in Action, New Cuban Artists, North Lima Art Museum, Peru, Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela Lo Erotico en el Arte, University of Havana, III Biennial of Havana, Cuba
1988
Made in Havana, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Raices en Accion Nuevos Artistas Cubanos/Roots in Action, New Cuban Artists, Museum of Art Carrillo Gil, Mexico
Havana in Madrid, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
Exhibition of Cuban Painting, House of Culture, Ibn Khaldoun, Tunisia, Africa
Signs of Transition: 80's Art from Cuba, MOCHA, New York, NY Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA
Cuban Art in Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Creadoras Cubanas/Cuban Woman Creators, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Contemporary Cuban Art, GalleryTetriakov, Moscow, Russia
1987
The Love, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Veintitantos Abriles, Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
Aire Fresco / Fresh Air, Fund of Good Culture, Havana, Cuba
Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Polaroid Collection, Boston, MA
The Fog Museum Harvard University Cambridge MA
The Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
The Mac Arthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Rutgers University Center for Innovative Print and Paper, NJ
The Museum of the National Center of African American Artists, Boston, MA
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Arts, FL
National Museum of Fine Arts Havana, Cuba
Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
The Good Culture Fund, Havana, Cuba
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
The Victoria and Albert Museum London UK
Awards and Fellowships:
2009 The Jorge Hernandez Leadership in the Arts Award, MA
2007 Rappaport Prize
2004 The Artist Resource Foundation, MA
2002 LEF Foundation, Cambridge, MA
2000 Polaroid Artist Support Program, Boston, MA
1997
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, NY
Visiting Foreign Artist, The Photographer's Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Visiting Artist, Rutgers University Center for Innovative Print and Paper, NJ
Polaroid Artist Support Program, Boston, MA
1996
Ella Jackson Artist and Scholars Fund, Truro Center for the Arts Castle Hill, MA
Nominated for the Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film/Video Multimedia Fellowship Installation / Interactive Category, NY
1995
Art Reach 95 Award, National Congress of Art & Desing, Salt Lake City, UT
BAM, Visual Artist Initiative, finalist 94 - 93
Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe College at Harvard, Cambridge, MA
New England Foundation for the Arts, Regional Fellowship, MA
1992-1991 Foreign Visiting Artist Grant, Media Arts, Canada Council Painting Fellowship, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
1990 Painting Fellowship, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
1989 Medal of Hono, City of Guanabacoa, Cuba
1986 Honorary Mention - XVII International Festival of Painting, Cagnes Sur Mer, France
1985 Symposium of Scientific Studies, Research Award, Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba
1983 Mention, Painting - 13th of March Competition, University of Havana, Cuba
Performance/Multimedia:
2004 Domestic Rhapsody; Getting Emotional (live performance ,45 minutes) ICA Boston MA
2002 One Stich at a Time, (live performance, 60 minutes) Henie Onstad Museum, Oslo Norway
1998 Intervention (live performance, 15 minutes Art in General, New York, NY 1
996 Letter to My Mother, (live performance, 45 minutes), The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
1994
Letter to My Mother (live performance, 45 minutes) Colloquium Room, The Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
Letter to My Mother (live performance, 45 minutes) Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Foto Fest, George Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX
The Seven Powers Come by the Sea, (live performance 30 minutes), Miami Dade Community College, Gallery North, Miami, FL
1993
La Voz del Silencio / The Voice of Silence, (live performance, 3 hours), The Space, Boston, MA
Baño Sagrado / Sacred Bath, (3/4" video, 30 minutes), INTAR Latin American Gallery, New York, NY, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1992
The Seven Powers Come by the Sea, (live performance, 1 hour), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
La Voz del Silencio / The Voice of Silence, (live performance, 3 hours), Gallery La Centrale / Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada
1991
Baño Sagrado / Sacred Bath, (3/4" video, 30 minutes), Commissioned by the Western front Society, Vancouver, Canada
1990
Rito de Iniciacion / Rite of Initiation, (Film, Boston), Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta & Satellite Exchange / Video Inn, Vancouver, Canada, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada
1988
Rito de Iniciacion / Rite of Initiation, (Film, Boston), Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, Collective for Living Cinema, NY, IV International Electroacoustic Music Festival, Varadero, Cuba, Department of Afro American Studies, Yale University, CT, Center Wifredo Lam, Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba 1986 Art and Sex Conference, (installation), Garden of NEAC, Havana, Cuba
Selected Reviews:
2005
Guide New York, Cover NY NY
Fardy, Jonathan, " A GASP of Fresh Air", ArtsMedia, March- April
Edgers, Geoff, "Perchance to Dream", Boston Globe, February 4
2004
McQuaid, Cate " Art Blossoms Around the City", Boston Globe, December 26
Temin, Chrisitine, " Getting Under the Skin", Boston Globe, February 13
Hopkins, Randi, "Mother Nature on the Run", Boston Pheonix, September 10 2001
Temin, Christine. "From Cuba to Boston to Venice." Boston Sunday Globe. July 1. 2000
McQuaid, Cate. "Left speechless by the power of her silence." Boston Globe. October 12. 1999
Consoli, Grace. "Meanwhile, the girls were playing." ArtsMedia. November - December.
Temin, Christine. "A delicate spin on a life in Cuba." Boston Globe. November 17.
Wildman, David. "Technology doesn't overwhelm the art." Boston Globe, October.
Costa, E. "Campos-Pons at MoMA and Lehman College." Art in America. April. 1998
Bell, Lynn. "History of people who were not heroes. A conversation with MMCP. Third Text. Summer/Fall. London. Valle, Olga. "Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons." Glass. Number 72, Fall.
Munoz, Ibanez. "En Torno al trabajo de MMCP en Nueva York. Las Provincias. May 9, Spain.
Zimmer, W. "One show ponders a cause & the other reviews a heritage". New York Times. April 19.
Klawans, S. "Critic's Choice, Museums." Daily News. May 16.
Wilson Lloyd, A. "Magdalena Campos-Pons." Sculpture, February.
Unger, Miles. "Magdalena Campos-Pons." ARTnews, January.
Sherman, Mary. "Photos stripped of color evoke pain, poignancy." Boston Herald, January 16.
1997
Tarlow, Lois. "The divided heart of M.M. Campos-Pons." Art New England.
April. Robertson, S. "The artist as creator . . . and canvas." The Star Phoenix, April 5, Canada.
1996
Turner, Elisa. "Latin American women show." The Herald, June 16.
McQuaid, Cate. "Artwork that gets under the skin." The Boston Globe, October 17.
Silver, Joanne. "Cuba-America 'paints' with eyelashes." The Boston Herald, December 6.
1995
Damian, Carol. "Transcending the borders of memory." ARTnews, March.
Anere, Morgan. "Transcending the borders of memory." Art in America, May.
Miller, Randy. "Transcending the borders of memory." Art Papers, May/June.
McEntire, Frank. "Art from far, wide at Salt Lake City." The Salt Lake Tribune, September 17. 1994
Medina, Meg. "Bordering on Excellence." Palettes, November 2.
Hurlburt, Roger. "Going Home." Sun Sentinel, October 2.
Fusco, Coco. "M.M. Campos-Pons at INTAR." Art in America, February.
Cohn, Terri. "Shaped identities: The photographic object." Camerawork, Spring/Summer.
Stapen, Nancy. "A personal vision of the slave trade." The Boston Globe. June 28.
McQuaid, Cate. 'Heroic Histories." The Boston Phoenix, June 12.
Kohen, Helen. " Arts blends Cuban feminine, African." The Miami Herald, March 12.
Giuliano, Mike. "Latin-American artists at MICA." City Paper, March 6, Baltimore.
1993 Laurence, Robin. "New points of view." The Weekend Sun, November 27, Vancouver, Canada
1992
McQuaid, Cate. "Five-for-all." The Boston, Phoenix, September 18.
Lopez, Sebastian. "Made in Havana." Lapiz, No. 85, March, Madrid.
Murphy, Jay. "Art challenges colonization: The IV Havana biennial." Cuba Update, April.
Johnson, C. P. "Blood and Tears." Houston Chronicle, March 6.
Johnson, Ken. "Hearts and Minds." Art in America
March Le Blanc, Odette. "How the human body is a tree." Images, March 19.
Dumont, Jean. "A la croisee des cultures." Le Devoir, January 28, Montreal, Canada
Girouard, Eric. "L'eau, le lait el le sang." Le McGill Daily Francais, January 28, Montreal, Canada
1991
Contrera, Carmen. "The art of M. Campos." Aquellarre #7/8, Vancouver, Canada
West, Alan. "The bleeding heart: Motif pervades a contemporary exhibit."
Christian Science Monitor, December 10.
Lopez, Sebastian. "Cuban art in the '80's." Art i, #6, Amsterdam, Holland.
Mosquera, G. "Feminismo en Cuba?" Revolution and Culture, June, Havana, Cuba.
1989
Mosquera, G. "Renovacion en los 80's." Revolution and Culture, June, Havana, Cuba.
Hilton, Tim. The Guardian, November 1, London, England.
Mosquera, G. Revolution and Culture, April, Havana, Cuba.
Caballero, Rulfo. "Sin hoja de parra." Juventud Rebelde, November 17, Havana, Cuba.
Public Art Commissions:
1999 Not Just Another Day. Donnell Media Center New York Public Library.
1990 Space for Love (permanent installation in Embassy Hotel, Room 44), London, Ontario, Canada.
1987 Wall Installation. Hospital Provincial de Pinar del Rio, Commissioned by the Cuban Fund for the Fine Arts, Cuba.