Israel Campos

Israel is an interdisciplinary L.A. based artist that works with paintings, print media, digital media, and artist books. His work embraces the art tradition from Mesoamerica to explore how historical events are interconnected and reverberate into the present. He is a Chicano artist that investigates pre-Columbian iconography, generational myths, oral folklore, and contemporary pop culture to collapse the centuries separating the different artforms.

Israel graduated with a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2011 and with an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2015. His work is in the permanent collections of the Kohler Art Library in Madison Wisconsin, the Oakland Museum of California, the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, CA, and more. He is in the Board of Directors for the California Society of Printmakers and runs and operates Chayote Press in the Pico Union neighborhood of Los Angeles.