María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold includes over three decades of the artist’s work in photography, installation, video, painting, and performance. Hauntingly beautiful and emotionally charged, Behold shows how Campos-Pons’s layered identity as a Cuban woman with ancestral roots in the Yoruba culture of West Africa as well as in Spain and China inform her multimedia, sensorial artworks. Evoking the history of diaspora, displacement, and migration, as well as labor and race, and motherhood and spirituality, Behold invites us to join with the artist in the vital search for meaning and connectivity. 

About the artist

Campos-Pons is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair Professor of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University. In addition to her practice as an artist and professor, she has made a significant contribution to the larger art world and to Tennessee through her ongoing program Engine for Art, Democracy & Justice, which brings together scholars, critics, and artists from around the world in virtual seminars and physical artist interventions.

She was the consulting curator for the 2023 Tennessee Triennial, a statewide series of exhibitions addressing the theme of “Re-Pair”—art as a means of healing a broken society. In 2023, Campos-Pons was named a MacArthur Fellow in recognition of her groundbreaking synthesis of cultures and mediums in advocating for art’s capacity to heal individuals and society.  


This exhibition is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The exhibition is curated by Carmen Hermo, former Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum and Mazie Harris, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum with Jenée-Daria Strand, former Curatorial Associate, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.

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The Frist Art Museum is supported in part by

The Frist Foundation, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Events and programs

Lectures + Gallery Talks
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 6:00–6:30 p.m.

Gallery Talk: “Magdalena Floats: On Sacred Holds and Movement”

Tours
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 6:30–7:00 p.m.

Thirty-Minute Exhibition Tour 

EVENT
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Literary Salon: María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold

Lectures + Gallery Talks
Thursday, December 19, 2024, 6:30–7:00 p.m.

Close Looking: Behold

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