Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

Born, 1959 in Matanzas, Cuba

From the publication, In Black and White: Prints from Africa and the Diaspora, by Gill Saunders and Zoe Whitley, V&A Publishing, 2013: “Maria Campos-Pons applies a syncretization of African and European practices in her work, incorporating West African visual traditions from Yoruba, Ewe and Ejagham cultures, among others.”

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons contributed work to the major exhibition Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, which was curated by Barbara Thompson, curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American Collections at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. The exhibition was originated by Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire and exhibited there April 1 - August 10, 2008 before touring to venues in Wellesley, Massachusetts and San Diego, California. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’ work was reproduced in the substantial catalogue accompanying the exhibition. 

The exhibition also featured contributions by the following artists: Renée Cox, Angéle Etoundi Essamba, Lalla Assia Essaydi, Emile Guebehi, Senzeni Marasela, Nandipha Mntambo, Zanele Muholi, Hassan Musa, Wangechi Mutu, Ingrid Mwangi/Robert Hutter - IngridMwangiRobertHutter Collective, Magdalene Odundo, Etiyé Dimma Poulsen, Alison Saar, Joyce J. Scott, Berni Searle, Fazal Sheikh, Malick Sidibé, Penny Siopsis, Maud Sulter, Sokari Douglas Camp, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and Carla Williams.

»  Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body

Book relating to an exhibition, 2008

»  In Black and White: Prints from Africa and the Diaspora

Book relating to a publication, 2013

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Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 2006