Photo of Giancarlos Campos
Giancarlos Campos, MFA'26
Email: ggcampos22@berkeley.edu
Gian Campos is an artist, graphic designer, and educator from Los Angeles, CA. Their practice centers collage as a visual discipline, research strategy, theoretical framework, and a metaphorical motivation for building solidarity. In their previous body of work, Dungeon Flower, they collected the traces and ephemera from sites of queer gathering—screenshots of (now deleted) porn from tumblr, condom wrappers, out-of-print magazines, and 'trash' transmuting them into dense, over saturated technicolor compositions. The poetic ethos of this body of work approximated their conceptualization of the Queer Artist's Internet—a dynamic web that intertwines visual pleasure and radical queer politics through exercises in collective authorship. Their work aims to bridge the metaphysical distances between 'queer documents', while simultaneously recording their history.