Valerie Campos

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Valerie Campos
Born	Valerie Campos Maldonado (1983-12-25) December 25, 1983 (age 38) Mexico City, Mexico

Valerie Campos (born December 25, 1983 in Mexico City) is a Mexican artist. Passed her early years in Los Angeles (California) in direct contact with the street art and lowbrow, this being her first visual influences. Self-taught, began painting at the age of 22 years and moved to Oaxaca (Mexico), internationally known as the city of the Mexican painters.

Resume[]

In 2007 her first solo exhibition was held at the Quetzalli Gallery in Oaxaca. In 2011 Campos had two simultaneous exhibitions in Oaxaca of her work: "Where Dreams Come True" at the Museum of Oaxacan Painters and "Still Life" in Bodega quetzalli Oaxaca. These exhibitions and a related monograph were supported by the Spanish curator Pablo J. Ric. Since then Campos has exhibited her work in China, Indonesia, Canada, France, Spain and the United States.

In recent years, Campos has developed an exceptional artistic and organizational activity. In 2014 she founded Nao Now with the intention of opening a new avenue for cultural exchange between Mexico and China. Through the support of Yuan Xu Centre (where she won a scholar- ship in 2013) she brings together a group of eight Mexican artists for a residency production in Beijing in the summer of 2014.

Campos has presented her work in Beijing, China "In The Centre Of The Labyrinth" at the Beijing Cultural Exhibition Centre, "Lost Horizon" in Xu Yuan Centre (group exhibition of Mexican artists within the project "Nao Now Mexico-Beijing 204" in China) among other artistic centers as “Dialogos con Goya" Alpilles-Provence in France (Festival- part) at the Lawrence Arts Center, Kansas USA. "The fourth Elements" (itinerant)) 2014, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing China. “The Fourth Elements” 2013 Museum of Oaxacan Painters. "Amazing Stories- Interventions of a Floating World"in the Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca 2013. "Fool's Gold" Intervention in-situ, MATRIA. "Where Dreams Come True" (itinerant) the Museum of Oaxacan Painters. "I Want to Believe" at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada ) Her work has been selected in the 4th Biennale of Yucatán (2009), Monterrey Artemergente 2010, 1st International Print Biennial J. Guadalupe Posada (2013) and Artfest 2006 . She has been awarded from the National Fund for Culture and Arts of Mexico FONCA 2014-2015. The Lawrence Arts Center of Kansas Residency for 2014-2015. The Xu Yuan Press Center of Bei- jing (China) Residency 2013-2014. Red Gate Gallery, Residency 2013. PECDA Oaxaca 2013. Banff Centre (Canada), Residency 2011. Valerie lives and works in Mexico City.

Publications[]

• Where Dreams Come True^[1]
• Amazing Stories · The 4 Elements ^[2] with a run of 300 copies, each with the original charcoal drawings. Editorial Coordinator: Daniel Molina. Design and layout: Alfonso Morales. Photo: Daniel Molina. Curatorial text: Paul J. Rico. Texts: Valerie Fields.

References[]

Links[]

• Official website

Press[]

• Beijing Today
• China Daily
• La Jornada