Clayton Campbell is a practicing artist whose work bridges studio practice with public organizing and intervention. His recent photographic installation, “Words My Son Has Learned Since 9-11” has been exhibited in the past two years at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris; University Nevada Las Vegas; the Higher Bridges Art Center, Enniskellen, Northern Ireland, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Words My Son Has Learned Since 9-11” is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress Print and Drawing Collection.

As an arts organizer, in 1976 he founded ‘The Performing Space’ in Santa Fe, one of the first performance art venues in the Western United States to focus on feminist art practice. He later was program director of the Kampo Cultural Center and the Production Manager for Theatre of the Open Eye, in New York.

As the Artistic Director of 18th Street Arts Center since 1996, he has organized numerous exhibitions, including “50 Years-Hiroshima”, “Artists Who Write”, and “Imaging LA.”

Campbell writes extensively about arts and culture, and is the Los Angeles Editor of Contemporary magazine (London), and the Los Angeles Correspondent for Flash Art International magazine (Milan).

In 2002 Campbell received the distinction of Chevalier, Order of Arts and Letters, from the French government for his international work in arts and culture.