Charles Campbell

2024 Exhibition Artist

Charles Campbell (he/him) is a Jamaican-born multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator whose practice animates the future imaginaries possible in the wake of slavery and colonization. His artworks, which include sculptures, paintings, sonic installations and performances, have been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Vancouver Special, Disorientations and Echo at the Vancouver art Gallery, Fragments of Epic Memory at the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Other Side of Now at the Perez Art Museum Miami. Campbell is the recipient of the 2022 VIVA Award and the 2020 City of Victoria Creative Builder Award. He holds an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmith College and a BFA from Concordia University. He currently lives and works on lək̓ʷəŋən territory, Victoria BC.

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How many colours has the sea (2024)

How many colours has the sea (2024) is a commissioned work that pays tribute to the spirits lost in the Middle Passage—the harrowing journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. The room-sized structure, based on bathymetric maps of the mid-Atlantic, recreates the undersea topography where the African and North American tectonic plates meet. Made from […]

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