Pooja Campbell is an Indian-American artist based in Virginia. Born and raised in India, Campbell creates figurative paintings that explore cultural inheritance, domestic space, memory, and the complexities of raising first-generation American children. Drawing from Indian textile traditions, miniature painting, pattern, and personal narrative, her layered compositions weave  figure and ground into dense, vibrant spaces that move between recollection and imagination. Her work considers what happens to Indian visual memory after migration—how inherited images, patterns, objects, and spaces are preserved, transformed, and reimagined across generations.

Campbell received her MFA from American University in Washington, DC, her BFA from Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts, and studied textile design at Cape Technikon in Cape Town, South Africa.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Mary Washington Galleries, New York Academy of Art, Strathmore, and the Center for Contemporary Art. She is a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Graduate Fellowship, the Ruth Meixner-Bird Award, the Wolpoff Award, and an Acquisition Award from the University of Mary Washington Galleries.

Campbell lives and works in Virginia and teaches at American University, Washington Studio School, and The Grounds.