Campbell begins most of his paintings with images ranging from his own highly orchestrated photography, to screenshots found while browsing social media. He alters these points of departure until only their underlying structure remains. An inherited geometry persists while the subject matter dissolves and becomes more open to interpretation. Luminous, often psychedelic color harmonies sit within passages of both explosive, and classical brushwork. Working within the oil painting tradition, the work feels simultaneously raw and refined, expressive but precise. His paintings evoke the endurance of myth: narratives that remain legible because of a thematic consistency with previous iterations from different sources or authors even as the characters in the current settings change.

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Michael Alexander Campbell (b. 1999, Cambridge, UK) lives and works in New York. He studied Fine Art at Lancaster University (UK). Solo exhibitions include Luce Gallery, Turin (2025) and Casa del Popolo, New York (2025). He has also completed residencies with Tamburini Projects, Florence (2025), the Edelman Glion Summer Residency, Switzerland (2025) and at Palazzo Chupi, New York (2023).