Cornelio Campos

Cornelio Campos Vincente
Cornelio Campos painting a mural in Durham, 2019
Occupation(s)Muralist and painter
Websitecorneliocampos.com

Cornelio Campos Vincente, born in 1971 (age 53–54), is a Mexican American muralist who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Of Purépecha origin, Campos immigrated from Cherán, Michoacán to the United States and came to live in North Carolina in the 1990's. Campos is a recipient of the 2023 North Carolina Heritage Award.[1][2]

Art career

As a child, Campos worked as an apprentice with a local artist into his teenage years. Following family and better opportunity to the United States, he developed as an artist while living in Los Angeles, and then settled permanently in North Carolina. After moving to North Carolina, Campos labored as a farmer and was unable to dedicate his time and finances to painting. The opportunity to begin a career as an electrician allowed him to have the financial stability to paint again.[3]

Campos' art contains references to various indigenous cultures.[4] His artwork depicts the struggles of immigrant/migrants.[5] Campos' work brings awareness to the experiences of these people and uses his artwork as a social agent to advocate for the Mexican American community.[6]

Campos has worked with the Durham County Library to create an archive collection of his artwork.[3][7]

References

  1. ^ "2023 NC Heritage Award Recipients". North Carolina Arts Council. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  2. ^ "About Page". Cornelio Campos. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Cornelio Campos Collection" (PDF). Durham County Libraries. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  4. ^ Chacón, Gloria (2024-01-23). Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies. Amherst College Press. pp. 39–41. ISBN 978-1-943208-73-9.
  5. ^ Garrigan, Shelley (June 2018). "Painting as Performance: The Work of Cornelio Campos". Journal of Narrative and Language Studies. 6 (10): 37–47. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  6. ^ Brinkmann, Robert; Tobin, Graham A. (2011-06-01). Carolina del Norte: Geographies of Latinization in the South: A Special Issue of Southeastern Geographer, Summer 2011. UNC Press Books. pp. 286–290. ISBN 978-0-8078-8285-6.
  7. ^ Post, Colin (2017). "Ensuring the Legacy of Self-Taught and Local Artists: A Collaborative Framework for Preserving Artists' Archives". Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America. 36 (1): 73–90. doi:10.1086/691373. ISSN 0730-7187. JSTOR 26557057.