Name: Crystal Z Campbell
Place of Birth: USA
Year of Birth: 1980
Areas of Work: Sculpture, photo, installation, writing, film, drawing, performance 
Webseite: www.crystalzcampbell.com


Crystal Z Campbell investigates the politics of witnessing with works in mixed-media: ceramics, sound, light, sculpture, 16mm film, performance, drawing, photography and installation. Currently, Campbell's ongoing collaborative experiments with scientists examine Henrietta Lacks’ immortal HeLa cell within a biopolitical, ethical, and spiritual nexus.

A former social worker, Campbell completed Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, an MA in Africana Studies (University at Albany) and an MFA at University of California-San Diego. Her works exhibit nationally and internationally: ICA–Philadelphia, Fondazione Ratti, Studio Museum of Harlem, New Children’s Museum of San Diego, Wave Hill, Project Row Houses, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Harvestworks and de Appel Arts Centre amongst others.

Campbell was Van Lier Fellow at Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program from 2010-2011 and recently finished a prestigious two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Campbell lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Sommerakademie 2014
Opening/Nominators' Day
15. August 2014, Zentrum Paul Klee.
Video by David Röthlisberger