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Jonathan Campo (b. 1981, New Orleans) is a painter examining how we engineer experience out of existence. His paintings document our impulse to strip the world of texture and map the reduction of everything—animals, landscapes, leisure, natural phenomena, even other planets—into efficiently consumable units. Through flattened perspective and relentless repetition, his paintings mirror this quiet violence: comfort mistaken for order, control disguised as care. In trying to perfect and optimize our surroundings, we render them hollow.
Campo was raised in New Orleans by a Cuban refugee father and a mother whose British family was displaced after World War II. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis' School of Art in 2003. Since then, he has balanced a career as a creative director with a dedicated studio practice, working across film, animation, branding, and national campaigns while maintaining painting as his primary form of cultural inquiry.
He lives and works in Charleston, South Carolina.
