F Lennox Campello

"One of Washington, DC's most interesting people", is how the Washington City Paper recently described F. Lennox Campello. He is an award-winning American artist, a widely published art critic and writer, a gallerist and the editor of Daily Campello Art News, one of the highest ranked visual arts blogs in the Blogsphere. F.Lennox Campello studied art at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. In 1996 he was the co-founder of the Fraser Gallery, a leading independently owned fine arts gallery in Washington, DC and he has been the recipient of many art awards as well as having exhibited widely in the United States, Latin America and Europe. He is also often heard on National Public Radio (in the USA) and the Voice of America discussing the visual arts from the Greater Washington, DC region.

Mera Rubell, one of the world's top art collectors has called his artwork "amazing" and selected it for the 2010 "Cream" auction at American University's Katzen Museum in Washington, DC.

F. Lennox Campello studied art at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle, under Professors Norman Lundin, Alden Mason, Jacob Lawrence, Everet DuPen and others. Although he graduated from Washington in 1981, the artist started to sell his work professionally in 1977, when he became one of the regular exhibiting artists at Seattle's world famous Pike Place Market, where over four years he sold, gave away or traded over two thousand works of art. In that same year that he graduated from Washington, he won the William Whipple National Art Competition First Prize for Printmaking, the silver medal at the Ligoa Duncan Art Competition in Paris and the French "Prix de Peinture de Raymond Duncan," also in Paris. A frenetic and vocal student, who seemed to produce artworks at a incredible pace, as well as organizing exhibitions for other students, he was described by Ileana Levens, at the time the curator of the Bellevue Museum of Art as the "most powerful student force ever to go through this art school." In 1981 Campello was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy and was assigned duties in Spain, where he worked on a series of landscapes of Andalusia which now hang in over fifty private collections in Spain, Portugal and th...

2018 CONTEXT
2018 Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX
2017 CONTEXT Art Miami Art Fair
2017 SOFA Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2017 Affordable Art Fair, New York
2017 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
2017 Katzen Art Museum, AU
2016 CONTEXT Art Fair, Miami
2016 Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX
2016 AAFNYC
2015 SELECT - WPA Gala, Washington, DC
2015 Alchemicals, Joan Hisaoka Art Gallery, DC
2014 CONTEXT Art Fair, Miami, FL
2014 Charles Krause Reporting Fine Art, DC
2014 (e)merge art fair, Washington, DC
2014 Mayer Fine Art, Norfolk, VA
2014 Alchemicals, Joan Hisaoka Art Gallery, DC
2013 CONTEXT Art Miami. Miami, FL
2013 Jordan Schnitzer Museum at The University of Oregon. Eugene, OR
2013 Museum of Contemporary Art DC (MOCA DC)
2013 (e)merge art fair. Washington, DC
2013 Strathmore Art Center, Rockville, MD
2013 Affordable Art Fair. New York, NY
2013 SCOPE Art Fair, New York, NY
2013 Alchemicals, Joan Hisaoka Art Gallery, Washington, DC
2012 Aqua Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL
2012 (e)merge art fair, Washington, DC
2012 Houston Art Fair, Houston, TX
2012 Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
2012 Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2011 Aqua Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL
2011 (e)merge art fair, Washingto...