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Studio Lenca is the working name of artist Jose Campos – ‘Studio’ referring to a space for experimentation and constantly shifting place; ‘Lenca’ referring to the name of the artists ancestors from El Salvador.
Studio Lenca received an MA from Goldsmiths University of London. Recent solo exhibitions include: Untitled, Miami; Soho Revue, London; Artual Beirut and Tang Contemporary, Seoul. Studio Lenca’s work is part of the following collections:
The Pérez Art Museum Miami
Parrish Art Museum
Colección Adriana Cisneros Griffin
Elie Khouri Art Foundation
The MER Foundation
The Poma Collection
The Mario Cader-Frech Collection
Jose Campos was born in La Paz, El Salvador and like many had to flee the country during its violent civil war during the late 1980s. He travelled to the US by land, illegally with his mother and grew up in the gaze of a strictly conservative administration - an ‘illegal alien’. Studio Lenca is focused on ideas surrounding difference, knowledge and visibility. He works with performance, video, painting and sculpture.
Studio Lenca’s process starts with personal memories and is underpinned by social activism and different forms of praxis.
Studio Lenca paintings tell an autobiographical story which navigates borders and identities destroyed, redrawn and erased through colonisation and war. The portraits depict the artist and his community proudly wearing hats and vibrant colours in noble defiance of the ‘western’ discourse around migration.
(Image credit: Marc Hibbert)
Residencies:
Adhesivo, Mexico City, 2023
Fountainhead Miami, 2022
Recent exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions:
2023:
Chisme, Parrish Art Museum, New York
El Camino, Soho Revue, London
Alquimia, Finca Cortesin, Malaga
El Jardin, Tang Contemporary, Bangkok
Cutting Through, Edji, Brussels
Listo, Halsey Mckay, New York
Joyeria, COAM, Madrid
Ni de aquí, ni de allá, Untitled Art Fair, Miami
2022:
A Losing Game, Soho Revue, London
I’m working on leaving, Tang Contemporary, Seoul
The Dreamers, Foundry, Dubai
The Invisibles , Sierra Metro , Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh
Full list of exhibitions available at studiolenca.com/CV
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