Fernando do Campo (b. Mar del Plata, Argentina 1987) is an artist and academic based between Brisbane and Sydney. He is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at UNSW Art & Design, Sydney. Since 2015, he has also produced work as the HSSH (House Sparrow Society for Humans). Do Campo's practice engages the histories of non-human animals via anthropomorphism, speculative fiction and archival research to produce multi-disciplinary exhibitions and projects. The global south and the legacies of colonialism and modernism that hold these animal narratives are a focus for both his research and the material studio explorations. Recent projects have focused on the possibility of painting as a diaristic archival process and listening as a performative gesture through which to complicate the anthropocentric gaze of both the maker and viewer of artworks.
Do Campo has presented solo exhibitions in Australia and the USA, and group exhibitions internationally. He is a Sir General John Monash Foundation Scholar, the first artist to ever receive this prestigious award for emerging Australian leaders to study abroad, which he used towards completing an MFA at Parsons School of Design, New York. He completed his PhD at MADA, Monash University in 2022 and was Artist-in-Residence at the State Library of NSW 2021-22. In 2024, Do Campo presents a major solo project with the Rockhampton Museum of Art, QLD. Do Campo is currently working on an ongoing research project with the Green-Wood Cemetery and the Brooklyn Museum, New York, investigating the history of house sparrows in the Americas, this will be presented at the Barnett Newman Foundation, New York, in 2025. Across 2024-2026 Do Campo is Thinker-in-Residence at Taronga Zoo, resulting in a major solo exhibition at Mosman Art Gallery, NSW in 2026.
Do Campo is exclusively represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.
