Crystal Z Campbell, a mixed-media artist of African-American, Filipino and Chinese descent, was born in Prince Georges County (Maryland) and raised in Oklahoma. Campbell investigates the politics of witnessing and is currently engaged with an ongoing art and science project investigating Henrietta Lacks’ HeLa cell within a biopolitical, ethical, and spiritual nexus.

Honors and awards include the Pollock-Krasner Award; MAP Fund; MacDowell; MAAA, Skowhegan; Rijksakademie; Whitney ISP; Franklin Furnace; Tulsa Artist Fellowship; Black Spatial Relics; UNDO Fellowship, and Flaherty Film Seminar, amongst others. Select exhibitions include the Drawing Center (US), Nest (NL), ICA-Philadelphia (US), REDCAT (US), Artissima (IT), Studio Museum of Harlem (US), Project Row Houses (US), and SculptureCenter (US), and SFMOMA (US). Campbell’s writing has been featured in World Literature Today, Monday Journal, GARAGE, and Hyperallergic.

Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma. Campbell is founder of the virtual programming platform archiveacts.com and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts.