Colonization and the slave trade shaped Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’s background. She was born in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1959, to parents of African and Chinese heritage. Her African ancestors were brought to the Caribbean to work on sugar plantations in the late–1800s, while her Chinese ancestors worked as indentured servants in the sugar mills. A multicultural identity has shaped her photography, sculpture, and performance. What did it mean to be Cuban? And what did it mean to be a woman in Cuba? In the 1980s, Campos-Pons began to gain recognition for her curious abstract works. Today, she is 64 and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. This solo exhibition surveys 35 years of her remarkable oeuvre. —Elena Clavarino