María Magdalena Campos-Pons

María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959, La Vega, Matanzas, Cuba) grew up in a family of Nigerian, Hispanic, and Chinese descent. Her diverse heritage profoundly informs her multidisciplinary practice, which spans photography, performance, painting, sculpture, film, and video. Often autobiographical, her work explores history, memory, gender, and religion, and their role in shaping identity.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.

She has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, documenta 14, the Havana and Dakar Biennales, the Guggenheim Museum, Sharjah Biennial 15, and the 14^th Gwangju Biennale.

In 2023, the Brooklyn Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum organized María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold, a major travelling multimedia survey of her work, her first since 2007.