Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

María Magdalena Campos-Pons (American, born Cuba, 1959)

Born and raised in Cuba, and living in Boston since 1991, Campos-Pons’s multi-media pieces explore issues of feminism, racial identity, and family history. Using photography, performance, and video, in addition to sculpture, she communicates the sense of displacement as part of the immigrant experience. Campos-Pons earned a MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, and is currently an instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2007, she was awarded the Rappaport Prize.

Important Source Material:

Page-Lieberman, Neysa and Amy Mooney. María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Life Has Not Even Begun. Chicago: Columbia College, Glass Curtain Gallery. 2009.

Santiago, Fabiola. “In Praise of Identity: From Matanzas to Boston, Cuban Artists Connects Memories of a Fragmented Life,” in The Miami Herald. 7 October 2007.

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