Crystal Z Campbell

Crystal Z Campbell (they/them/theirs) is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for Diversity Innovation. They hold an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California-San Diego, an MA in Africana Studies from the University at Albany-SUNY, and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Oklahoma.

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

Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipino, and Chinese descent. Their work explores public secrets through archive-driven practices in film/video, performance, installation, sound, painting, and text. Exhibitions include Drawing Center, ICA-Philadelphia, Studio Museum of Harlem, and SFMOMA.

Honors include:

• Pollock-Krasner Award
• MAP Fund
• MacDowell Fellowship
• Skowhegan Program for Artists
• Rijksakademie Residency
• Whitney ISP
• Franklin Furnace Fund
• Tulsa Artist Fellowship
• Flaherty Film Seminar
• Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts (2021)

They founded the virtual programming platform archiveacts.com and served as a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David & Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021). Campbell’s writing appears in World Literature Today, Monday Journal, GARAGE, and Hyperallergic.