Cris Campos, born in 1976 in Brasília, Brazil, is a visual artist graduated from Faculdade Paulista de Artes. She works from her studio in São Paulo, where she develops a body of work focused on figurative painting infused with pop-surrealist and dreamlike influences.
Her works are part of private collections in Brazil, The Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, and France.
Her artistic practice emerges from a childhood deeply shaped by nature, animals, and a contemplative silence characteristic of rural life. Raised on a small countryside property surrounded by native vegetation and the constant presence of cats, dogs, birds, chickens, ducks, and even wild animals seeking refuge as deforestation advanced, her home became both a physical and emotional sanctuary for vulnerable creatures.
From an early age, her large expressive eyes observed the world with sensitivity and imagination. Often invisible among other children, she built an inner universe of her own: gardens for ants, hiding places for beetles, and stories invented while spending long hours on a swing in the breeze, always accompanied by silent animal companions. These moments of solitude became not isolation, but an imaginative laboratory fertile ground for the development of her artistic language and identity.
Today, these memories are transformed in her paintings, where characters, animals, and dreamlike atmospheres intertwine to reveal not only the world she lived, but new possibilities for existence, affection, and transformation. Her work presents a symbolic universe in which reality and fantasy coexist, inviting viewers to revisit their own imagination and recognize the poetic power of interspecies relationships.
She is currently dedicated to creating works that revisit fragments of her childhood: sensitive figures, hybrid beings, and animals that act as emotional extensions of her personal journey. Each painting is both a return and a step forward a process of self-construction, where art becomes a path of healing, memory, and reinvention.
