Victoria Campillo Grau

For the past twenty years I have been working nonstop on my photographic project, based in the identity that comes with objects from quotidianity and it's relation to Art.
In my work, i discuss art, quoting other artists and making connections between diferent subjects.
I like to mix high and low culture.
In many of my series i use clothing as a support to express my ideas.
I also employ elements of everyday life:
coffee games, piggy banks, elephants, bags, etc...
The series often have 50 or 100 images. I also references to classical subjects of the history of art: nudes, still life, the military theme, the great masters of history.
For my photos I choose everiday objects that I feel attracted to and I relate them to contemporary artworks from other artists I admire.
The World is a huge object catalog where I can select the one are useful for the story I want to tell. In a way the attraction I feel for objects is related to my own biography but in a subtle way.
For the form I want to keep things very simple and neutral I don’t want nothing to disturb my message and I’m also into repetition like an obsesion. In all my images you find the name of the artist that the object relates to just in the middle. And always with the same Herlvetica typo.
These are the series I offer to your attention.

Bio
Victoria Campillo was born in Barcelona in 1957 where she still works and lives. She started drawing from an early age and discovering her obvious abilities a teacher advised her parents to promote her artistic inclinations.
After graduating from Barcelona's Beaux Arts University sh started a professional career in illustration that very soon developed into painting. In 1985 she entered Escola Massana 's school as teacher where she still remains with a restricted schedule.
In 2001 she switched to photography and began showing internationally.
She has had exhibitions in Spain,France,Italy,Germany and USA.
She currently works with Galerie Basia Embiricos in.
In 2013 she won the ArtFad Prize and in 2014 the Arte Laguna prize.
She is present in several collections as "Colección Ordoñez-Falcón", Colección Atlántico Norte, Colección centro TEAC,Dionisio Gavagni Collezione, Betty de Woody collection and other private collections.

He has exhibited his work at:
Venecia, New York, Miami, Basilea, Berlín, París, Amsterdam, Bruselas, Viena, Turín, Frankfurt, Gante, Istambul, Madrid, San Sebastian, Tenerife, Valencia, Girona, Málaga, Santander, Santiago de Compostela y Barcelona.
SMART PROJECT SPACE, Amsterdam (Holanda)
ARTIUM, Vitoria
KURSAAL, San Sebastià
CENTRO CULTURAL OKENDO, San Sebastià
CHAPELLE DES PÈNITENTS, Aniane (França)
CENTRO CULTURAL DE LA DIPUTACIÓN, Màlaga
COLEGIO DE ARQUITECTOS, Tenerife

Prizes:
Finalist at Magreb Photography Awards, Magreb, 2020
Honorable Mention at MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS, 2020
Selected in View Bug, 2020
Selected in Motif Collective, 2020, Florida
Selected at exhibition ‘Portraits Without Faces"
PH21 Contemporary Photography Gallery ,2020, Budapest

Absolut Winner Photography: ART LAGUNA PRIZE, Venecia, 2014
Mención de Honor en el Festival NEXOFOTO, 2014, Madrid
Seleccionada en PA-TA-TA Festival de Fotografía, 2014, Granada
FAD de Oro en los premios; ARTFAD 2013, Barcelona

Obra en colecciones

Ms. Shelley Danien Harrison, New York, NY. USA
           The Rex Hamilton Corporation, Coral Gables, Florida, Fl, USA
           Ms. Beth de Woody, New York, NY. USA
           Ms. Stacey Fabricant, New York, NY. USA
           M. Roman Osman, New York, NY.USA
           Colección Ordoñez- Falcón. (tota la sèrie “Intimacy”,100 obres). San Sebastián, Spain
           Colección Jacob Bendahan (sèrie “Intimacy”, 103 obres), Madrid, Spain
           Colección Eladio de Mora (series “Pigs” i “Manolo”, 75 obres), Madrid, Spain
           Colección C. Yzaguirre y Antonio Fernandez-Cid (sèrie “Pigs”, 50 obres), Barcelona,  Spain         
         Colección TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
           Colección Carme Trilla, Barcelona, Spain
           Colección Artium, Pais Vasc, Spain
           Colección Gobierno de Cantabria, Santander, Spain          
           Colección Luís Adelantado, València, Spain
           Colección Cristina Masaveu, Madrid, Spain
           Colección Lluís Coromines, Banyoles, Spain
           Colección Jaume Plensa, Barcelona, Spain
           Colección Harold Berg, Barcelona, Spain
           Colección Moshan Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain
           Colección Luis Garcia Fraile, Madrid, Spain
           Colección Lluis Bassat, Barcelona,  Spain
           Colección Marc Escudé, Barcelona, Spain
           Colección Manel Mayoral, Barcelona, Spain
           Colección Antonio Miró, Barcelona, Spain
           Colección Fernando Centenera, Madrid, Spain
           Colección Sadurní, Barcelona, Spain        
           Colección Mónica Alvarez de Careaga, Santander, Spain
           Colección Mercè Pomer, Alella, Barcelona, Spain
           Colección Ricard Planas, Girona. Spain
           Colección Marta Oló, Barcelona, Spain