Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons has built her career as both an installation and a performance artist and currently lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. Since her arrival in the United States from Cuba, Campos-Pons has continued to embrace new media, installation and photography, while maintaining the themes expressed in her formative years. Her work is an open-ended and continually evolving investigation of history and memory and their roles in the formation of identity. In a relatively short span of time, Campos-Pons has produced a prodigious amount of work that challenges the categories of race, nation, gender and class. Campos-Pons makes the perilous journey into individual self-determination, drawing her inspiration from both the Cuban society from which she originates, her American home, and the world at large.

Campos-Pons's works have been exhibited in the United States, Japan, Norway, France, Italy and Cuba. She is most widely known for her presentations in two major group exhibitions: Unpacking Europe at the Museum Boijmans Van Beunigen in Rotterdam in 2002 and Authentic/Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art, part of the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. Campos-Pons's works are collected in the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among other institutions.