Valerie Campos Explained

Valerie Campos
Birth Date:25 December 1983
Birth Place:Mexico City, Mexico
Birth Name:Valerie Campos Maldonado

Valerie Campos is a self-taught artist born in Mexico City (1983) and raised in Los Angeles, California, where her first visual influences were street art and Lowbrow. Inspired by a wide range of musical genres, Valerie paints sonorous and organic spaces, combining abstract and figurative elements, that she fragments and reproduces in a kaleidoscope-like manner. Nakedness and transparency of desire, and the flight of eroticism, serves as conductive threads of an iconic grammar made of conceptual and sensitive-sensual forms.

Art Career

Since the beginning of her career, Valerie Campos has strived to reconcile representations from very different origins, to transversalize the contents and principles that determine individual, community and social behaviors. Thus, universal symbols cohabit the length and breadth of her work, sometimes being more evident, and at other times almost subliminal presences, which fuse elements from the high Mesoamerican cultures, in particular the hieroglyphics of the Mayan and Mixtec codices, along with caricatures and their capacity for synthetic communication.

Campos has exhibited her work in various solo and group shows in Europe, North America, and Asia. She has been awarded various national and international grants, such as the National System of Art Creators (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte 2020) and the Young Creators Program (Programa de Jóvenes Creadores 2014/15) in Mexico; Back to Basic, Finland in 2019; the K.I.A.R Odisha program, India in 2019; Glo Árt, Laneken, Belgium in 2017; LAC, Kansas City, United States in 2014/15; Xu Yuan Centre, Beijing, China in 2013/14; Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China in 2013; and Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada in 2011. Her work has been selected in competitions and biennials including the Film Festival KC 2015; 1st International Biennial of Engraving José Guadalupe Posada 2013 and the International Festival of Contemporary Art Alpilles-Provence, France, 2014.

In addition to her artistic achievements, Campos has developed cross-cultural projects in the arts. In 2014, with the support of Francisco Toledo, she founded the Nao Now project to promote cultural exchanges between Mexico, China and the US. In 2020, She founded Vaivén Collectors, a non-profit association that produces short-form documentaries, academic essays, and arts events to disseminate, promote and open dialogues on contemporary art in Mexico.

Valerie Campos currently lives and works in Mexico City and New York. She holds a scholarship from the National System of Art Creators (SNCA), an award given by the Mexican Ministry of Culture to artists with a robust professional trajectory.

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References

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Campos, Valerie. Where dreams come true. Issuu.
  2. Book: Campos, Valerie. The 4 elements. Issuu.

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