Crystal Z Campbell, Makahiya (film still). Digital video with sound, 10 min. 22 sec. 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Crystal Z Campbell.
Crystal Z Campbell, Mawala. Handmade cotton and abaca paper, manila rope, mixed media, walnut frame. 2024. Created in collaboration with Tatiana Ginsberg at Dieu Donné. Framed: 43 x 45 1/2 in. 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Saint Louis Art Museum.
Crystal Z Campbell, Apothecary vessels (blown glass made with Museum of Glass) and digital print on metal, 2024. Installation view at Saint Louis Art Museum. Photo: Courtesy of Saint Louis Art Museum.
Currents 124: Crystal Z Campbell. Installation view at St. Louis Art Museum. Balat, Digital Collage on Suede, Sisal. 2024. Photo Credit Crystal Z Campbell.
Currents 124: Crystal Z Campbell. Installation View at St. Louis Art Museum. Digital Prints on Metal, 2024, Photo: Courtesy of St. Louis Art Museum.
Installation view of paper works (Yo-Yo, Tago ng Tago, Dokumento). Handmade cotton and abaca paper, manila rope, mixed media, walnut frame, 2024. Created in collaboration with Tatiana Ginsberg at Dieu Donné. Photo: Courtesy of St. Louis Art Museum.
Crystal Z Campbell, Makahiya (film still). Digital video with sound, 10 min. 22 sec. 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Crystal Z Campbell.
Installation view of paper and blown glass works (The Comet (after W.E.B. DuBois) and Tago ng Tago). Handmade cotton and abaca paper, manila rope, mixed media, walnut frame, 2024. Created in collaboration with Tatiana Ginsberg at Dieu Donné. Blown glass made at Museum of Glass, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of St. Louis Art Museum
Currents 124: Crystal Z Campbell. Installation View at St. Louis Art Museum. Blown glass, 2024, Photo: Courtesy of St. Louis Art Museum.
Post Masters
Crystal Z Campbell, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descents whose works center the underloved.
Artist BioPost Masters is an experimental film, performance, painting, and publication project considering intersections between the United States Postal System (USPS) and US Military through the lens of both Filipinx and Black histories. Throughout the project, the US-Filipinx relationship will be considered alongside parallel histories of Black Americana in US expansion and imperialism, using the artists’ intertwined Black and Filipinx family histories as a viewfinder to frame what it means to be(come) American.
Post Masters premiered in the exhibition Currents 124: Crystal Z Campbell at Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri in 2024.
Creative Capital Carnival 2022
Events
Crystal Z Campbell: Currents 124
October 25, 2024–March 9, 2025
Saint Louis Art Museum
One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri
Crystal Z Campbell
Oklahoma City, OK
Crystal Z Campbell, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descents whose works center the underloved. Working through archives and omissions, Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—fragments of information known by many but undertold or underspoken. Campbell was a featured filmmaker at the 67th Flaherty Film Seminar programmed by Almudena Escobar López and Sky Hopinka, and their films and art have screened and exhibited internationally: MIT List Visual Arts Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, The Drawing Center, Nest, ICA-Philadelphia, Museum of Modern Art, BLOCK Museum, REDCAT, Studio Museum of Harlem, Bemis, Berlinale Film Forum, SculptureCenter, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and St. Louis Art Museum, amongst others. Campbell’s film REVOLVER received the Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival. Other honors include a 2024 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow, Creative Capital Award, Harvard Radcliffe Film Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Award, MAP Fund, MacDowell, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Skowhegan, Rijksakademie, Whitney ISP, Franklin Furnace, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Black Spatial Relics, and a DUKE DocX Fellowship. Campbell’s writing is featured in two artist books published by Visual Studies Workshop Press, World Literature Today, Monday Journal, GARAGE, and Hyperallergic and they are working on their first feature length film.
Events
- Crystal Z Campbell: Currents 124 October 25, 2024–March 9, 2025