Conversations | María Magdalena Campos-Pons | Art Basel Awards

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María Magdalena Campos-Pons, artist, Nashville Azu Nwagbogu, curator, Founder and Director, African Artists’ Foundation, Lagos 
In this new series of talks, ‘One-on-ones’, artists and creatives shortlisted for the Art Basel Awards are invited to the Conversations stage for a dynamic deep dive into their work, recent projects, and journeys to this point. Multidisciplinary Cuban artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons – a key figure of post-revolutionary Cuba and a nominee in the Established Artist category – speaks to AzuNwagbogu, the founder and director of the African Artists’ Foundation and LagosPhoto, and the publisher of Art Base Africa, who is nominated in the Curator category. María Magdalena Campos-Pons is a Cuban-born American artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Campos-Pons’s multidisciplinary practice includes painting, photography, performance, audiovisual media, and sculpture. She is considered a key figure among Cuban artists who found their voice in a post-revolutionary Cuba. She has received multiple awards and recognitions, including the Pérez Prize in 2021 and the MacArthur Fellowship in 2023, among others. She currently serves as the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University. Azu Nwagbogu is an internationally acclaimed curator focused on evolving new models of engagement around decolonization, restitution, and repatriation. He is the founder and director of the African Artists’ Foundation and LagosPhoto, and the publisher of Art Base Africa. Nwagbogu is an Explorer at Large with the National Geographic Society and has been listed on the ArtReview Power 100 (2021–2026). In 2024, he curated the first-ever Benin Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.&nbsp;

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