Born 1983, Mexico City

Valerie is a self-taught artist born in Mexico City and raised in Los Angeles. She has lived and exhibited her work around the world, including Mexico, China, Indonesia, Canada, France, Belgium, Spain and the United States. Her work has been selected for several notable competitions and biennials, and she has been awarded several international residencies. She is currently a member of the National System of Art Creators (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte SNCA) fellowship in Mexico City, and was awarded by the Fund for Culture and the Arts (Fondo para la Cultura y las Artes FONCA), young creators 2014-2015. The Lawrence Arts Center KC, 2014-2015. The Xu Yuan Press Center, Beijing (China) 2013-2014. Red Gate Gallery, 2013. Banff Centre (Canada), 2011. 

In addition to her artistic endeavors, Campos has developed cross-cultural projects in the arts. She currently produces and directs AC Vaivén Collectors, a non-profit platform that produces short-format documentary series with the aim of disseminating, promoting and opening dialogues on contemporary art in Mexico.

Valerie explores the liminal space between the conscious and unconscious worlds, striking a balance between chaos and order; two complementary approaches to life. Her raw style explores complex impulses ranging from the individual to the collective, with the play of chance as a starting point.

She continues her exploration of abstract forms applied within the composition through conscious architectural marks to convey a sense of timelessness, playing with the viewer's subconscious on emotional, visual and physical levels. Campos uses horizontal and vertical lines to expose an invisible grid that translates three-dimensional space into flattened compositions of patterns and colors.

In her work, the artist applies thick brushstrokes of vivid tones that combine historical art references, from ancient to modern sculptures, geometric shapes or pre-Hispanic elements as universal symbols. 

Her most recent works are part of her non-figurative repertoire, whose fascination lies in the various layers of lines. It seems that the resonances of her earlier series have been rediscovered. Polysemy emerges through incessant metamorphoses, which play with the body, the fusion of symbols and space. Consistent and elusive forms created from the concurrence of depth and surface, rhythms that emerge as memories of an absent place, only to immediately disappear again.

Valerie lives and works in Mexico City