Natalia de Campos is a multidisciplinary artist from São Paulo, Brazil working in performance, video, sound, writing, interactive media, street interactions and as a theater director, producer, researcher, educator and translator. Natalia worked in São Paulo for ten years before moving to New York in 1998.

In 1999, she founded Syncretic Pleasures and produces multidisciplinary performances with international collaborators, objects and solo works, shown in venues throughout NYC, most recently at: chashama 461 gallery, Grace Hotel, SCOPE Art Fair, Bowery Poetry Club etc. She has been a long-term studio resident of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center since 2001.

With Syncretic Pleasures she has produced several works in New York City, some of which are shown on this site, under Performances, Theater, Collaborations, Sound and Writing. Syncretic Pleasures has also been a co-producer with other organizations.

In constant re-development, ART&COM Work Displays History, is an interactive social arts project in collaboration with Thiago Szmrecsanyi, first shown at the Jamaica Colosseum Mall as part of JAMAICA FLUX 2016, and subsequently as ART&COM: RE-LOCATION, presented by Emma Thomas Gallery in the Lower East Side in December 2016, with additional showings in São Paulo (April 2017), and in New York (October 2017) as part of Art in Odd Places, with Collective Bargain, a collaborative and interactive installation-performance.

Natalia also works as an arts manager and producer. In this role, she has worked with Richard Foreman, The Builders Association, in Under the Radar Festival, New York’s subway art program MTA Arts for Transit, Galeria Melissa NY, Cuchifritos project space at the Essex Street Market, and many individual artists, among others.

She performed with The Living Theatre, Mikhail Baryshnikhov’s White Oak at BAM, and in experimental plays, films and performances . Upcoming theater performances to be announced, directed by Anna Kohler, in 2021.

Long term resident artist at CSV Center; alumna from the Creative Capital/LMCC Artists' Summer Institute 2010, member of the Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab, the International Federation of Theatre Research and The Living Theatre.

Natalia is also an activist, member of diverse arts and non-arts activist groups. A co-founder and co-director of the Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee in New York.

She holds a BA in World History from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and an MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts from City University of New York (CUNY Brooklyn College).