Crystal Z Campbell

MFA

Crystal Z Campbell standing next to a lightbox of colorful transparencies.

Crystal Z Campbell

MFA

Crystal Z Campbell

MFA

Research Field

Art & Technology (Emerging Practices); Media Studies

Education

  • MFA, Visual Arts, University of California-San Diego 
  • MA, Africana Studies, University at Albany-SUNY 
  • BFA, Studio Art, University at Oklahoma 

Bio

Crystal Z Campbell (they/them/theirs) is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipino, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets — fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Their archive-driven work in film/video, performance, installation, sound, painting, and text, has been exhibited at Drawing Center, Nest, ICA-Philadelphia, Studio Museum of Harlem, SculptureCenter, and SFMOMA, amongst others. Honors and awards include the Pollock-Krasner Award, MAP Fund, MacDowell, Skowhegan, Rijksakademie, Whitney ISP, Franklin Furnace, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and Flaherty Film Seminar. Campbell’s writing has been featured in World Literature Today, Monday Journal, GARAGE, and Hyperallergic. 
Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David & Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) and founder of the virtual programming platform archiveacts.com. Campbell was recently named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. 

Campbell was a 2021-2022 UB Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fellow.

Courses

Other Emerging Practices Faculty

Instructional Staff