María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959, Matanzas) work addresses history, memory, gender, and religion, investigating the role of each in identity formation. Her practice intermixes photography, painting, sculpture, film, video, and performance. Campos-Pons’s work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; amongst many others.

Her work has been exhibited and performed at the Venice Biennale; documenta 14; Havana Biennial; Dakar Biennale; Johannesburg Biennale; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA; Guggenheim Museum; National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC); Sharjah Biennial 15 (United Arab Emirates); 14th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea), and the second Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (Saudi Arabia).

In 2023, the Brooklyn Museum and J. Paul Getty Museum organized María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold, a major traveling multimedia survey of her work, the first since 2007. Beginning at the Brooklyn Museum, the show travels to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Frist Art Museum and culminates at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2025.

Campos-Pons is also the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University and has founded numerous artist-run programs such as GASP (Boston, 2003), EADJ (Nashville, 2018) and Intermittent Rivers (Cuba, 2019).