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Join us on Tuesday, October 20 at 6:00pm for an artist talk with Crystal Z Campbell. Their exhibition, Aftertouch: Mimosa Pudica, remains on view through October 30, 2026.The evening will also celebrate the launch of our latest publication, featuring a new essay by scholar, artist, and writer Amalle Dublon, guest faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and faculty at The New School.
Snacks and refreshments will be served. We look forward to welcoming you to Rivalry Projects, located at 106 College Street, Buffalo, NY 14201.
Special thanks to the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute (College of Arts and Sciences) and the UB Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development for their generous support of this publication.
About Crystal Z Campbell & Amalle Dublon
Crystal Z Campbell (b. 1980, Prince Georges County, MD). A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, Campbell is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descents whose archive-driven works engage historical perception, psychogeography, and the underloved.
Campbell’s visual art and films have exhibited and screened internationally: MOMA , European Media Arts Festival, SFMOMA, Chicago International Film Festival (Silver Lion), National Gallery of Art, The Drawing Center, ReMai Modern, Berlinale International Film Festival, MIT List Visual Arts Center, REDCAT, Gallerie im Turm, SculptureCenter, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Walker Art Center, ICA-Philadelphia, Studio Museum of Harlem, Bemis, Nest, Semana Cinema de Negro, Knoxville Museum of Art, New Orleans Film Festival, BLOCK Museum and others.
Recent solo exhibitions include Artists Space, St. Louis Art Museum, Memorial Art Gallery, and a forthcoming exhibition in Fall 2027 at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. They were a featured filmmaker at the 67th Flaherty Film Seminar programmed by Almudena Escobar López and Sky Hopinka, and their film REVOLVER received the Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival (an Academy Award Qualifying Festival). Other honors include a 2024 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow in Film/Video, 2022 Creative Capital Award, Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Award, MAP Fund, MacDowell, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Skowhegan, Rijksakademie, Whitney ISP, Franklin Furnace, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Black Spatial Relics, and DUKE DocX Fellowship. Campbell’s writing is featured in two artist books published by Visual Studies Workshop Press, World Literature Today, Monday Journal, GARAGE, and Hyperallergic.
Campbell’s work is in the permanent collections of MIT List Visual Arts Center, Memorial Art Gallery, Philbrook Museum, Gilcrease Museum, Duke University, Harvard University, the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection, and other private collections in the US and Italy. Campbell is currently an Associate Professor in Art and Media Study at the University at Buffalo and visiting MFA faculty at Bard College. They live and work between Oklahoma and New York.
About Amalle Dublon
Amalle Dublon’s writing has appeared in Art in America, Movement Research Performance Journal, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Artpapers, and The Drama Review, among other publications. Since 2018, Amalle has co-organized I Wanna Be With You Everywhere, a serial cross-disability arts gathering. Amalle’s artwork, made collaboratively with friends and loved ones, has been exhibited at Artists Space (New York), Museum MMK (Frankfurt), ARGOS Arts (Brussels), and Dazibao (Montreal). Amalle is currently guest faculty at Sarah Lawrence, and also teaches at The New School, where they are a 2026-27 fellow at the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought.
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