Latin American Artists, #4, Maria Magdalena Campos Pons

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Replenishing
Polacolor #6 prints, 1998

Born and raised in Cuba, María Magdalena Campos-Pons studied in Havana at the National School of Art and the Superior Institute of Art (ISA), later training at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She has lived and worked in Boston since 1991 and has shown extensively in the United States, Canada and abroad. Her work is in important public and private collections, including the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Campos-Pons was one of the artists in the United States representation at the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale, and showed in the 2001 Venice Biennale. Campos-Pons works in a variety of media, including photography, painting, and performance video. Recurring themes in her work include maintaining ties with the people and land from which she comes, the special character and role of women's discourse in society, and the nature of family communication.



Abriendo Caminos 2, 1997. Large-format Polaroid.
Check out "RITUAL, MIRROR AND EYE," Saint Louis University, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art .
http://mocra.slu.edu/past_exhibitions/RitoEspejoOjo.html