Susana Campos

Susana Campos (born 1942) is a Mexican artist whose work tends to be complex compositions in various media generally introspective or commentary on society. 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.

Life Campos was born in Mexico City in 1942. In 1962, she entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (UNAM) on the recommendation of art critic and researcher Alberto Hijar. Her most important teachers there were Francisco Moreno Capdevilla and Antonio Rodríguez Luna.

In 1966 she married fellow artist Carlos Olachea, with whom she created the group Nuevos Grabadores. In 1968, the couple received a grant from the French government to work in Paris. The couple's first child, Avril was born in 1970, with the second, Ignacio, in 1973. Campos and Olachea divorced in 1974. 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. She has also done “soft sculpture” the adding of elements to a painting such as cloth for three-dimensional effect. Her works tend to be complex compositions. Themes include introspection on her life and social observation and her main artistic influence remains teacher Antonio Rodríguez Luna.

Since the year 2000, she has worked on various pictorial series. The most important of these has been Ciudades contemporáneas, which look at the modern world and globalization.