Vivi Campbell

Brazilian-born painter, based in Manchester. I paint figurative portraits of women in oil and mixed media.

I'm Vivi Campbell. I grew up in Rio de Janeiro and have lived in Manchester since 2008. I'm self-taught.

I work in what I'd call disrupted realism. The figures are recognisable, the surfaces aren't always still: oil and acrylic, and mixed media layered through. Most of my personal work centres on women, in portraits that hold strength and vulnerability in the same image. The figures don't have to choose between the two.

In 2026 my personal work is moving toward a new body called Womanoids. The series places figurative portraits of women inside a post-human, dystopian frame, painted in the same disrupted realism. It asks how women hold power as the world becomes more surveilled and AI-mediated. The pieces draw on the goddess archetypes I grew up with: figures of fertility, fate, freedom, and mortality.

2024: Salford Museum Open, Award · Runner-up · The Unsteady Crown
2024: Salford Museum, Group Exhibition · Quiet in the Chaos
2024: Gallery Oldham, Group Exhibition · Empress of the Roses, Blooming Gaze
2025: Galeria Rivera, Group Exhibition · Morgana, Scarlett