BIO

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, an underground pop surrealism movement indebted to comics and punk. 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, which replicate the natural rhythms of life. The corpus and the plastic vocabulary of Valerie Campos are polysemic by nature, and dynamic in their themes that arise from the continuous metamorphosis of the eroticism of the body, and the fusion of symbols and spaces created from the concurrence of depth and surface. 

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.

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 platform 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. She holds a scholarship from the National System of Art Creators (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte), an award given by the Mexican Ministry of Culture to artists with a robust professional trajectory.