Moving Image, Moving Body: A Conversation with María Magdalena Campos‑Pons

Neon Queen Collective hosts a panel discussion on the work of artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons, who joins scholars from UT Austin and central Texas to discuss her practice in relation to the field of video art across the Americas. The panel will be moderated by Dr. George Flaherty, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) at UT Austin.

Campos-Pons (Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Fine Arts and Professor at Vanderbilt University) is one of the most celebrated living artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba. For over three decades, she has explored questions of race, gender, class and memory within African and Latin American Diasporic communities. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the National Gallery of Canada, among other distinguished institutions.  She has presented solo performances at the Guggenheim and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and has participated the Venice Biennale, the Dakar Biennale, Johannesburg Biennial, Documenta 14, the Guangzhou Triennial, and the Prospect.4 Triennial. Campos-Pons is represented by Gallery Wendi Norris.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Like the lonely traveler: Video Works by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, on view through December 7.