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María Magdalena Campos-Pons (August 22, 1959 - ) is a Cuban-born artist based in Boston. Campos-Pons works primarily in photography, performance, audiovisual media, and sculpture. She is considered a "key figure" among Cuban artists who found their voice in a post-revolutionary Cuba. Her art deals with themes of gender and sexuality, multicultural identity (especially Cuban, Chinese, and Nigerian), Cuban culture, and religion/spirituality (in particular, Roman Catholicism and Santeria).〔Bell, Lynne. "History of People Who Were Not Heroes: A Conversation with Maria Magdalena Campos‐Pons." Third Text 12.43 (1998): 32-42. Print.〕 ==Early life and education== Campos-Pons was born in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1959〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/maria+magdalena-campos-pons/biography-links )〕 and grew up in a sugar plantation town called La Vega in Cuba. Her paternal great-grandparents were Nigerian (Yoruba). She also has Chinese and Hispanic heritage. Her African ancestors, who were brought over by sugar plantation owners in the late 19th century, retained many traditions and beliefs from Africa. Many of these passed-down traditions influenced and became part of Campos-Pons's art. The African side of her family were forced to work as slaves on sugar plantations and as domestic servants. The Chinese side of her family also worked in the sugar trade as indentured servants in the sugar mills. When she was young, Campos relates that during a trip to the National Cuban Museum of Fine Art, she distinctly felt that black Cubans were conspicuously missing from the art. She did not feel as though black Cubans were equally represented.〔 Campos-Pons has described much of her art education as very traditional, rooted in drawing and sculpture.〔 She trained at the Escuela National de Arte in Havana between 1976 and 1979.〔 From 1980 to 1989, she attended Havana's Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA).〔 The ISA allowed students to be exposed to international artistic movements and develop art that drew from Cuba's unique "mixed traditions and cultures."〔 Campos-Pons earned her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1988.〔 Before moving to Boston in 1991, she left Cuba to take a fellowship in Banff, Canada.〔 Since 1991 she has lived in Boston.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「María Magdalena Campos Pons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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