Background
Campos was born in Mexico City in 1942. The couple’s first child, Avril was born in 1970, with the second, Ignacio, in 1973.
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Susana Campos
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She has had over thirty five individual exhibitions in Mexico and participated in various collective exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. Her work has been recognized with membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana since 1966, and has been written about by various noted art writers in Mexico. In 1962, she entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) on the recommendation of art critic and researcher Alberto Hijar.
In 1968, the couple received a grant from the French government to work in Paris.
Campos lives and works in Mexico City. Campos has had over thirty five individual exhibitions including those at the Instituto Francés de la América Latina (1967), the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (1981), a retrospective that toured Aguascalientes, Guanajuato and Zacatecas (1995), the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (2002) and at the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (1974, 2012).
Her work has participated in over fifty collective exhibitions in Mexico, other parts of Latin America and the United States as well as in biennales in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Ecuador. In 1982, she formed a group called El Caracol made up of photographers, painters and graphic artists, which included Herlinda Sánchez Laurel and Consuelo Salazar.
From 1988 to 1998 she worked at a studio located at the old Christ College (Antiguo Colegio de Cristo), working with painting, photography and installation with other artists, mostly from the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Her work can be found in the collections of Banamex, the Museo de Arte de Sinaloa and the Guadalajara Regional Museum. lieutenant has also been reproduced in publications such as Collección de arte de Banamex, Diccionario biográfico de la pintura mexicana and in the magazines Casa del Tiempo (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana) and Cuadernos de Comunicación. Other recognitions include the Engraving Prize of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1968, honorary mention in painting at the Biennal of Fine Arte in Mexico in 1980 and the Painting Prize of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1990.
In 2012, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana held a retrospective in her honor.
Her work has been written about by Raquel Tibol, Alberto Hijar, Berta Taracena, Antonio Rodriguez Luna, Teresa del Conde, Mónica Mayer and Macario Matus.
Membership
Campos has been a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana since 1966.
