Crystal Z Campbell (b. 1980) is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descents whose works center the psychogeographic, historical perception, and the underloved.

A featured filmmaker at the 67th Flaherty Film Seminar programmed by Almudena Escobar López and Sky Hopinka, Campbell’s films and visual art have screened and exhibited internationally: European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Berlinale Film Festival Expanded, Artists Space, National Gallery of Art, 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, Artissima, Studio Museum of Harlem, Bemis, Project Row Houses, Knoxville Museum of Art, Gallerie im Turm, SculptureCenter, Semana Cinema de Negro in Belo Horizonte, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, amongst others. Campbell’s film REVOLVER received the Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival (an Academy Award Qualifying Festival).

Black Spatial Relics, and 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. Campbell’s work is held at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY, Philbrook Museum, Gilcrease Museum, Duke University, Harvard University, the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection, and other provide collections in the US and Italy. Campbell is currently an Associate Professor in Art and Media Study at the University at Buffalo and visiting MFA faculty at Bard College. They live and work between Oklahoma and New York.

SELECT Solo & Group Exhibitions

• Louder, Taller, Uglier, Weirder – Learning from Weeds, curated by Sylvia Sadzinski Lorena Juan, Anaïs Senli, Sonia Fernández Pan, Galerie Im Turm, Berlin, DE, 2026

• Politics of Place, curated by Jeremy Drummond, Lora Robins Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, 2026

• Haunted, curated by Ellen Ito, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2025

• Great Plains, Remai Modern, curated by Sally Frater and Michelle Jacques,Saskatoon, CA, 2025

• Currents 124, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2024

• Makahiya, Urban Video Project, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2024

• Ode to the Underloved, Artists Space, NY, NY, 2023

• Lines of Sight, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2023

• A Two-Way Mirror, Museum of Glass, Seattle, WA, 2023

Selected Funds, Awards & RESIDENCIES

• NYFA/NYSCA Fellow in Film/Video, 2024

• Duke DocX Fellowship, Center for Documentary Studies, 2024

• Creative Capital Award, 2022

• Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, 2021

• Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center Fellowship, 2020

• Pollock-Krasner, 2018