Charles Campbell

Charles Campbell is a Jamaican born multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator based on lək̓ʷəŋən territory, Victoria BC. Using sculpture, sound, installation and performance, his work pulls at the threads of time. Finding channels into the past and future Campbell reconstructs broken somatic, communal and spiritual connections, creating spaces of solace and meaning for all of us living in the wake of slavery and colonization. His most recent work recreates the submerged terrain where African and North American tectonic plates converge, bringing us in proximity to the realm of spirits lost in hundreds of years of forced Atlantic crossings.

Campbell’s artworks have been exhibited widely in the Caribbean, Canada and internationally. Recent exhibitions include The Other Side of Now (Perez Art Museum Miami), How Not to Be Seen (Remai Modern) and Vancouver Special, Disorientations and Echo (Vancouver Art Gallery). Campbell is the recipient of numerous awards and holds an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College and a BFA from Concordia University. His exhibition, How many colours has the sea, is currently showing at the Power Plant Gallery and his upcoming exhibition, An Ocean to Livity, opens at the Art Gallery of York University in January.