Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Born: 1959 Matanzas, Cuba
Resides and works in Brookline Massachusetts
Creates art about identity and memory
Education:
1988 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
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 Journeys, The First Center for the Visual Arts’ Gordon Contemporary, Brooklyn Museum, NY
2009 Wet Feet/Dry Eyes Columbia College Chicago’s Glass Curtain Gallery
The Other Side Julie Saul Gallery
2008 Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2008 Dreaming of an Island Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
2007 Everything is Seperated by Water Indianapolis Museum of Art
2005 Dreaming Now, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham,MA
2004 Elevata, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
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 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
1997 M.M. Campos-Pons, Sustenance, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
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
Recent Work, Miami Dade Community College, Gallery North, 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
1985 Acoplamientos/Coupling, Gallery L, Havana, Cuba
Group Exhibitions:
2009 Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
2008 Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Art for a forgotten faith Contemporary Art Center
2007 The Color line Jach Shainman Gallery
2005 Dispersed, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2004 Dakar Biennial, Dakar, Africa
Talking Pictures: Photographs by Maria Magdalena Campos Pons and Elizabeth Cerejido, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2003 De lo que soy/Of what Iam, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Remberance Fields, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
Inside/Outside, Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University
Only Skin Deep, ICP, New York
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, 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, 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, Maris Gallery, Westfield State College
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
1986 Africa Inside Cuba 6 Fine Artists, (Bedia, Lam, Mendive, Olazabal) Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba, National Museum of Anthropology, Luanda, Angola
18th International Painting Competition, Cagnes Sur Mer, France
10 Años del ISA, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
ARA OKO, Museum of Guanabacoa, 2nd Havana Biennial, Cuba
1984 13 of March Exhibition, University of Havana, Cuba
Salon III of Small Formats, Gallery L, Havana, Cuba
Higher Institute of Fine Arts Exhibition, First Havana Biennial, Cuba
1983 13th of March Exhibition, University of Havana, Cuba
1984 Four Young Creators, (Marta M., Perez B. Regina F., Eidania Perez, M. M. Campos-Pons), Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Collections And Artists Talks:
2000 Concordia University (visiting artist), Motnreal Canada
Gass 30 Conference Urban Glass, New York, NY
Mills College (visiting artist), Oakland, CA
Syracuse University (visiting artist), Syracuse, NY
Fort Point Channel Gallery, Boston, MA
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Women of the Caribbean Diaspora. A Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspective. Loyola College, MD
Artist on Artist Talk. Kerry James Marshal, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1998 Envision the Future: Installation Art From Then to Now. “Using the Future: Technology & Installation Art”, Worcester Art Museum, MA
Engendering Excellence, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Culture of Empire / Culture of Resistance, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
“Exile,” Campos-Pons, Sterbak, Maestro, Papastergiadis, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa
From Painting to Media, from Here to There, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
Video View Points, Titus Theater, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
1997 From Painting to Media, From Here to There, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburg, PA
Artist – on – Gallery Talk, Gothic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
ArtTable, “Coming to America and Beyond,” Sherin Netshar, Komad & M, The Drawing Center, NY
The Addison Gallery of American Art (visiting artist), Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Fine Arts Department University of Saskatchewan (visiting artist), Saskatoon, Canada
“On Beauty,” “Desire,” The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2004 Painting in the Age of Media, WAC, National Conference Boston, MA
Mass College of Art (visiting artist)
1995 Fine Arts Work Center (visiting artist), Boston MA
Phoenix Art Museum (visiting artist), AZ
Denver Museum of Americas (visiting artist), CO
1994 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (panel: Thinking About Boston)
1993 UMASS Dartmouth, Honor Lectures, M. M. Campos-Pons & Ellen Rothemberg, MA
Middlebury College of Art (visiting college), VT
WAC, Bunting Institute, Boston, MA
1992 Displacements – Curatorial project , Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Gallery La Centrale / Powerhouse Montreal, Canada
Concordia University, Montrial, Canada
1991 Annual Meeting of Canadian University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (Panel: The Shaping of Home: The Latin American Presence in the Visual Art in Canada)
Burnaby Art Gallery, B.C. Canada
1990 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada (visiting artist)
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (visiting artist)
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada (visiting artist)
Fanshage College, London, Canada (visiting artist)
Simon Frasier University & Satellite Exchange / Video Inn, Vancouver, Canada (visiting artist)
The University of Western, Ontario, Canada (visiting artist)
The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada (artist in residence)
1989 Riverside Studios, London, England (visiting artist)
University of Havana, Cuba & National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Alejo Carpentier Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba
1988 Wifredo Lam Center, Havana Cuba
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Brown University, Providence, RI
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY
Permanent 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:
2011 Women of Courage Honoree, La Alianza Hispana, Boston, MA
2007 The Rappaport Prize, The Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation
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
92 –91 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
1998 Art in General, New York, NY
1996 Letter to My Mother, (live performance, 45 minutes), The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
95 – 94 Colloquium Room, The Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
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
Academic Experience & Employment
01 – 98 Professor, Installation / Painting, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1997 Visiting Professor, Painting, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1996 Visiting Professor, 3d and installation seminar, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Juror, National Exhibition WAC, Transforming Tradition, Boston, MA
1995 Visiting Professor, 3d Senior Business Seminar, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Visiting Professor, Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1994 Visiting Professor, 3d installation, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
1993 Studio Review, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1992 Studio Review, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Curatorial Project (Displacements), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Assistant Curator, the Space Gallery
Jury for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Annual Student Exhibition and Dana Pond Painting Awards, Boston, MA
1991 Curatorial Project, Articule Gallery, Montreal, Canada
1990 Jury of Provincial Competition of Fine Arts, Matanzas, Cuba
Jury of Provincial Competition of Regino E. Boti, Guantanamo, Cuba
Jury of the 5th Edition of the Eduardo Adela Fine Art Competition, Havana, Cuba
1989 Jury of Provincial Competition of Fine Arts, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
89 – 90 National Council of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Co-Coordinator, Aesthetic and Fine Art Seminar, Revolution and Culture Magazine
86 – 89 Professor of Aesthetic and Painting, Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba
Selected Reviews
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.
Video Catalogs
Material Memories. WBGH Boston Public Television Production.
By Dick Morris PBS 1999
Meanwhile the Girls Were Playing WBZ TV 4
By Yadire Salcedo 5:42 11/13/99
Visions and Visitations (video) “. . . my magic pours secret libations. . .”
By Monica Love & Edgar Febres, Fsu CET/Multimedia Production. Underwritten by Panasonic, Inc. FL. 1996
Latin American Women Artists, 1915 – 1995 (video)
By Eric Marciano, American Montage, INC. Film & Video Production New York, NY 1995
Transcending the Borders of Memory (video)
Norton Gallery, Channel 20, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1994
Ways to See: New Art from Massachusetts (video)
By Branka Bagdanov, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1992
The Bleeding Heart/El Corazon Sangrante (video)
By Branka Bagdanov, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1991
Selected Catalogs & Books
Dispora Memory Placc. by Hassan, Salah M. : David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-pons, Pamela Z
Everything is seperated by water. Edited by Lisa D. Freiman; Essays by Lisa D. Freiman and Okwui Enwezor - 2007
One Thousand Ways to Say Goodbye. Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 2003 Curated by Selene Wendt
ISBN NR 82-90955-58-8
Meanwhile the Girls Were Playing. MIT List Visual Arts Center
October 8 – January 2, 2000. Essays by Jennifer Riddell & Michael D. Harris.
ISBN 0-9338437-60-7
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
Tate Gallery / Exchange Flags September – December 1999
Text by Anthony Bond
Crossing / Traverses. National Gallery of Canada Ottowa, August 1 – November 7, 1998
Text by Diana Nemiroff, Germaine Kock, Nikos Papastergidis, Hou Hanru
A Town Portrait. Lehman College, February 4 – May 16, 1998, text by Julia Herzberg
Spoken Softly with Mama. The Museum of Modern Art, March 5 – May 26, 1998
Text by Sally Berger
The Latina Artist, The Response of the Creative Mind to Gender, Race, Class and Identity.
State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, January 15 – March 1, 1998
Trade / Routes, Johannesburg Biennial. Text by Okwui Enwezor, Kellie Jones, Julia Kristeva, Gerardo Mosquera, Hou Hanru, Johnaesburg, Cape Town, 1997.
Invasion, Saaremaa Biennial. Text by Peter Linnap, Lisa Freiman. Kuressaare Episcopal Castle, Saaremaa Museum, Tallin, Estonia.
Breaking Barriers. Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art 1997. Text by Carol Damian, Jorge Dis Santis, Florida.
Latin American Women Artists 1915 – 1995. Milwaukee Art Museum 1995. Text by B. Rodriguez, E.J. Sullivan, M.P. Mendiola. ISBN 0-944110-10-50-9/
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Art Services International / Center for the Fine Arts, Miami 1995, Text by Shifra Goldman, Samela Lewis. ISBN: 0-88397-118-6.
“. . . My Magic Pours Secret Libations. . .” Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1996, Text by Monica Love, Delia Poey, FSU, School of Visual Arts.
Witness. Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1993, Text by Renee Baert.
ISBN 0-920293-35-2.
Transcending the Borders of Memory. Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, 1994.
Text by Olga M.Viso.
Let Me Tell You. INTAR Gallery, New York, NY 1993. Text by Julia P. Herzberg.
Agent of Change. Mediatheque Independent Film and Video Alliance of Canada, Vancouver, July, 1993.
FotoFest ’94. The Fifth International Festival of Photography, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas. Text by Ricardo Viera. ISBN 0-9619766-3-2.
Celebrating African Identity: CELAFI, CAN-BAIA in association with Harbor Front, the Third International NCA Conference, Included listing of exhibition, performances, text in English, bibliographical references and index. July 7 – 12, 1992. ISBN 0-9696-217-0-1.
The Bleeding Heart / El Corazon Sangrante, Text by Matthew Teitelbaum, Oliveir Debroise, Nelly Richard, Elisabeth Sussman, among others. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, CAM Houston, ICA Philadelphia, Mendel Gallery Canada, Newport Harbor, CA Fundacion MBA Caracas, MCA Monterrey Mexico. October 25 1991 – August 1993. ISBN 0-910663-50-5.
No Man is an Island. Young Cuban Art. Text by Marketta Seppala, Gerardo Mosquera, Osvaldo Sanchez, Pori Art Museum, Finland, May 5 – June 5, 1990. ISBN 951-9355-27.
KUBA OK. Text by Jurgen Harten, Gerardo Mosquera, Oscaldo Sanchez, Nancy Morejon, Standische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany. May 1 – June 13, 1990.
Aktualle Kunst Aus Kuba / Young Art from Cuba. Text by Jurgen Kleiman, Gerardo Mosquera, Eligio Fernandez (Tonel), Institut Fur Auslandsbezehungen, Stuttgart, 1990.
Contemporary Art from Havana. Text by Gerardo Mosquera, Riverside Studios, London, October 18 – November 26, 1989, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Dyfed, Wales, April – May 1990. Museum of Contemporary Art Sevilla Spain. June – July 1990. ISBN 1-870172-80-9.
Isla. Text by Osvaldo Sanchez, castillo de la Fuerza, Havana, Cuba, October 1989.
Made in Havana. Text by Charles Merewether, Gerardo Mosquera, Gallery New South Wales, Sidney. 1989. ISBN 0-7305-5857-6.
Signs of Transition: 80’s Art from Cuba. Text by Coco Fusco, Luis camnitzer MOCHA, Contemporary Hispanic Art Museum, New York, January 21 - February 28, 1988.
XIIIe International Painting Festival, 1986. Chateau Musee, Cagnes Sur Mer France, June 27 - September 30, 1986.
Rubin Suleiman S. Risking Who One is – Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature. Harvard University Press, 1994, Cambridge, MA & London, England. ISBN 0-674-770301-2.
Camnitzer Luis. New Art of Cuba, University of Texas Press: Austin, 1994. ISBN 0-292-71149-2.
Fusco Coco. English is Broken Here, the New Press, New York, 1995. ISBN 1-56584-245-6.
Sohat Ella, Talking Visions. Multicultural Feminism in a Transitional Age. 1998, MIT Press.
ISBN 0-262-69205-8.
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.