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Founded by Cesar Villalon Jr., The Drawing Room opened its exhibition space in February 1998. Initially a gallery for works on paper – which Villalon believes to be a significant, and intimate, art form – its inaugural show included exceptional Filipino draughtsmen such as Ben Cabrera, J. Elizalde Navarro, Kiko Escora, and Marcel Antonio. This simple aesthetic has now evolved and the gallery has developed into one of the leading spaces for contemporary art in the Philippines with an intense exhibition schedule. Having a new show opening nearly every month, embracing contemporary visual art in all its variety, one is now as likely to see works on canvas or a conceptual installation commanding the space as paper-based works of art; the genre dictated only by the emotional authenticity of each artist, from vivid portrayals of popular culture to personal versions of cosmopolitan thinking.

The gallery, in the heart of Metro Manila’s business district, is located away from other commercial galleries, and it’s hardly surprising therefore that its visitors are drawn from a broad range of people, all interested in what’s happening in the wider art world. The Drawing Room has a stable of young eminent Filipino artists who concern themselves with universal contemporary issues. Interna-tionally acclaimed artists such as Alfredo Aquilizan and Jose Legaspi, who have participated in the Venice and Istanbul Biennales respectively, are involved in a number of the gallery’s projects.

The Drawing Room is dedicated to raising the profile of its artists internationally and to this end participates in events such as Scope New York/Miami/Basel, Art Hong Kong, India Art Summit, Slick Paris and Art Stage Singapore as well as organizing exhibitions in galleries outside the Philippines – namely Singapore, Taipei, Jakarta, Beijing, Turin and now London.

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following pages: riel Hilario

Curating Rainclouds and Cigarette Breaks2011carved and polychromed fruitwood65.5 x 11.2 x 16 cm (50 x 79 ½ in)

persUasion fliGHts Patrick D. Flores

Art in the Philippines has had a history of inclining outwards, always gesturing towards an ‘elsewhere’ that reveals reality in other climates far from the tropics while imbibing the sentiment of the expectant native. Conversely, this ‘elsewhere’, this ‘promise of the foreign’, has been aspired to as an index of a kinder survival, a reprieve from the harsh temper of the islands, the main impulse of migration and of allegory. In light of this art’s emergence as a tool of instruction, and therefore a vehicle of conversion of three successive colonial occupations by Spain, America and Japan, beginning in the sixteenth century and ending in the second half of the twentieth century, the notion and moment of ‘art’, in the sense of its institution as a particular social practice, could only have been part of a grander project of conquest. Such conquest created eccentricities of form quite alien to the supposed sources of a sup-posedly superior influence. This is how a fairer view of ‘art’ within this latitude (not a province of the metropolis, to be sure) might proceed; one that is tainted by civilization – culture being fundamentally a corruption – and at the same time instilled with the struggle to overcome the condition of control.

The modernity of this tradition of art is robust. Filipino printmakers signed their names on maps in the eighteenth century, and the first school of drawing in Asia opened in Manila in the nineteenth century – in the same season that the first history painting was created in the region (a series of fourteen panels depicting a revolt incited by protest against the monopoly of sugarcane wine). In the late nine-teenth the colonial subject Juan Luna, who studied art in Madrid, at that time the capital of the Philippines’ conqueror, was awarded a gold medal in the 1884 Madrid Exposition of Fine Art. From this trajectory of seminal achievements came a complex expression of modernism, from the 1920s through the 1950s. Stirrings of the contemporary began to surface in the 1970s, alongside massive

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infrastructure for culture from an authoritarian state and the reciprocal resistance from a social realist movement sympathetic to socialism. It was in this furnace that what may be described as contemporary art in the Philippines came to be wrought.

Around four decades ago, the abstract artist and museum director Arturo Luz probed the problem of the identity of Philippine art by posing a rather circuitous question, its anxiety betrayed by a bela-boured syntax: ‘What do we mean by Filipino painting? A painting by a Filipino, a Philippine theme painted by any painter, or do we mean a Philippine theme painted by a Filipino painter? Again: When a Filipino painter paints a foreign theme or subject, does he produce Filipino painting or is he merely a Filipino painter painting? And when a foreign painter paints a Philippine theme or subject, does he produce Filipino painting or is he merely a painter painting a Filipino theme or subject?’

Luz was an exceptional figure in Philippine modernism. Aside from projecting himself as a fastidious tastemaker in the rarefied arena of geometric abstraction, he directed two museums (the Museum of Philippine Art and the Metropolitan Museum) and the Design Center of the Philippines in the 1970s. The latter developed indigenous materials not so much as material for art (although Luz ingeniously used burlap for his homages to American and Spanish modernists from Kline to Saura) as for the export of Filipino handicraft and furniture. This approach to design was guided by a developmental framework in which culture was harnessed for human advancement. This anxiety for the ‘Filipino’ has haunted Philippine art to this day. To the indifferent, to profess to it is to be provincial; to the nationalist, it is almost like an instrument of ideology. The art being created in the Philippines today sets out certain paths beyond these beaten tracks.

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Without understanding this context, this sense of the ‘contemporary’ will be merely abstracted in the currency of global art in our time, as if it were a commodity subcontracted from an Asian outpost in what is inarguably already an Asian century. The production of peculiar forms from the Philippines conversing with the vogues of the art centres overseas and yet rooted in its archipelago’s idiom may or may not survive the translations of the hypermobile emporia of art, and therefore proves to be at once cosmopolitan and local. It could be that the said dualism would not hold in the long term, and that the local actually is cosmopolitan because it is universal. As the would-be national hero Jose Rizal, the erudite humanist, exclaimed in a toast to a confrère’s triumph in Europe: ‘genius knows no country…it is the patrimony of all.’ And so, while this art that bears the weight of such history is confined to a gallery and traded in the market, it cannot be reduced to this function. In fact, this situation of commerce inheres in the form of this art, morphing from within as a critique of the very means of making goods that circulate in a charged post-colonial atmosphere.

This is clear in the work of Alfredo Aquilizan, who reflects on how art from modernism’s antithesis, the so-called conservative school, figures within the matrix of contemporary art. Aquilizan collaborates with a ‘Mabini painter’; this term is derived from the street on which tourist art or kitsch is peddled and, in Philippine art history, is used derogatorily more often than not. To trace the history of this mode of production is to return to the decline of the academic style in the Philippines, when modernism gathered momentum in the late 1920s and peaked in the mid-1950s. At this point, the once-ascendant conservatives walked out of the annual salon to rail against the perceived prejudice against them. They found themselves literally in the streets – canvas, easel and all. By laying bare this predica-ment in art history, Aquilizan prompts us to ponder what it means

to be ‘contemporary’: to be hauled back to the fraught process of being modern, to find oneself at variance with a peer working in a putatively lesser aesthetic, to combine discrepant political economies in doing ‘art’ that changes hands.

The return to facture, or the mode of making things, is crucial in probing the form of the art, the work of art, and not only the art-work. It references certain traditions of craft that are refunctioned within contemporary concerns or relived as part of the history of an artist’s skills or form-making repertoires. This is apparent in how Riel Hilario reconsiders colonial statuary to reveal facets of the unconscious, playing with its modular, fragmented elements that render it marionette-like. A kindred expression may be found in Lirio Salvador, whose talent in music leads him to solder materials such as domestic utensils and other things with a silver finish, such as bicycle gears, faucets and trays, into musical instruments that actually work. In both these instances, form is made possible through a careful evocation of a narrative of doing and deed.

As alluded to earlier, the generation of art in the Philippines could not be estranged from the generation of image, a religious one that in turn could not be wrested from the desire for salvation and the afterlife. This is why the faculty for image production in the Philippines is cogent; it lies at the core of a colonial spiritual impo-sition that persists to this day, albeit in significantly modified ways. Jose Legaspi’s stark portrait of a man with filth in his palm is a testament to how the religiosity of the image has been subjected to defilement in the hands of those who feel repressed by the doctrine. There is a tendency in the history of art in the Philippines that veers towards iconoclasm and even scatology – and the vein that is struck is frequently the ‘colonial’ that is inextricably linked to the ‘Catholic’. Such preponderance of image in everyday life is made all the more

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complicated by the equally dense strata of consumption of popular culture, this time from another precinct of the ‘West’ that is conflated with ‘America’. The conjuncture between Catholicism and American-style democracy and capitalism has yielded a copious gamut of image templates and the concomitant disposition to respond to the gaze they spawn. As it is in the critique of the colonial/Catholic image, this fascination with appearance and its alluring qualities may give way to a potentially productive rumination on both abjection and surplus. This may be discerned in the works of Troy Ignacio and Kiko Escora, whose conjurations of self serve as nexus to either slum or subculture, both of which are shrouded by darkness. Underlying all these insinuations of image or object is what may be portrayed as the natural history of the form itself; the very process that is required and is entailed in the facture. Roderico Daroy is the most attentive observer of how forces in the more ample world outside the studio conspire to design a work. Trek Valdizno invests in the same labour as he parses, so to speak, the elements of painting, specifically the intractable pigment that fleshes out the much sought-after picture.

All these efforts of Filipino artists cannot elude the compelling sociality that suffuses their practice. Mark Salvatus collects the deadly paraphernalia of prison inmates, traces their contours, and arrays them anew, like a dartboard, in what he conceives of as an evidence room. Diokno Pasilan’s dialogues with the daily circumstances of a coastal village in an island in the Philippines inspire him to initiate projects that vivify his neighbour’s subjectivities through photography and the fascinating decoration of their houses. Finally, Kawayan de Guia reacquaints himself with the memory of a movie house in his family’s hometown in Baguio, a colonial hill station during the American occupation of the Philippines. The artist rewinds his imagination and

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unreels the projection in bricolage as he rummages through recollections of this theatre and its silver screen.

Diverse trajectories of engagement may be gleaned in the careers of the artists represented in this exhibition. There is the sharp intuition for material and its attritions over time. Daroy exemplifies this propensity, which defies the logic and schedule of making art in the market. His work takes time, and it is this long duration that deepens it, assures the accretion it seeks, and enables it to create palimpsests of so many intimations. There is also the bricoleur in the Filipino artist that is simultaneously quaint and edgy. The instincts of De Guia, Salvador and Hilario are animated by the abil-ity to scrounge for scrap, cobble together bits and pieces of ideas and things, and reconstruct a redeemable and sometimes redemptive past. What arises from this toil is the fantastic, the condensation of seemingly disparate details of culture coming together to propose a range of adulterations: hybridity, admixture, portmanteau. This sort of discipline is a site of multiple encounters, and thus a foil to the autonomy of identity or even the sovereignty of culture. Related to this outlook is the suspicion of painters such as Legaspi, Escora, Valdizno and Ignacio of the irresistible image. This lack of faith in what the image professes as if preordained, curiously trans-forms into an excess of reality, be it in the delineation of materiality in breathtaking ways or the beholding of art’s resources as objects in themselves. Then there is the collaborative ethic that moves Aquilizan, Pasilan and Salvatus to be more selfless and giving, sharing the artistic enterprise with people who do not make art or the art that is legitimate as it has been inculcated by the system. They are seized by the habits of collecting and reconsolidating these collections in installations or within an interactive milieu.

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The devotion of Philippine art to image, process and memory is its passion. As it travels to other places, it importunes strangers to speculate on its salient history. It persuades them in their flights, in their resolute hovering, of the grit and the whimsy of their sanguine reality. The per-turbation called identity has been reckoned and interpreted with so much travail, unveiled in relation to the vanishing ethnoscapes of the familiar and the mutating horizons of the far, and always in the chastening struggles with self and structure. Filipinos are in their country, but their ‘elsewhere’ – in the high seas as mariners, in hospices as healers, in palaces raising heirs, in hinterlands spreading the gospel of gods, in skyscrapers crooning sad songs – has become a wider address: ‘the beauty of distance’.

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Untitled2011mixed media18.8 x 25 cm (7 ½ x 9 ¾ in)

roderico Jose daroy

roderico Jose daroy

Untitled2011mixed media18 x 26 cm (7 ½ x 9 ¾ in)

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Kawayan de Guia

The End2011mixed media on canvas144 x 154 cm (56 ¾ x 60 ½ in)

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Kiko escora

Untitled2011charcoal on paper114 x 76.2 cm (44 ¾ x 30 ¼ in)30

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Untitled2011charcoal on paper114 x 76.2 cm (44 ¾ x 30 ¼ in)

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rielHilario

riel Hilario

Curating Rainclouds and Cigarette Breaks (detail)2011carved and polychromed fruitwood65.5 x 11.2 x 16 cm (50 x 79 ½ in)

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Curating the Beach Trees2011carved and polychromed fruitwood75 x 99 x 18.5 cm (29 ½ x 39 x 7 ¼ in)36

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Another Satisfied Life2011oil on paper114.3 x 91.5 cm (45 x 36 in)38

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troy ignacio

Another Satisfied Life No. 22011oil on paper114.3 x 91.5 cm (45 x 36 in)

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Jose legaspi

Untitled2011pastel on paper100 x 70 cm (39 ½ x 27 ½ in)

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diokno pasilan

Untitled2003mixed media on canvas,157.5 x 132 cm (62 x 52 in)

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lirio salvador

Sandata ni Lirio 52011steel154 x 71.5 x 11 cm (60 ½ x 28 x 4 ½ in)

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mark salvatus

Fashioned Weapons2009ink on paper140.5 x 140.5 cm (55 ¼ x 55 ¼ in)

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Intergalactic2009 oil on canvas40.6 x 38.6 cm (16 ¼ x 15 ¼ in)

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Shakespeare2009oil on canvas45 x 51 cm (17 ¾ x 20 in)

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Maxim2009oil on canvas46 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in)50

BioGrapHies

ALFREDO AQUILIZAN

Born in Australia 1962 Lives and works in Australia

SELECTED ExHIBITIONS

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UKIndia Art Summit, The Drawing Room, New Delhi, IndiaArt Stage Singapore, The Drawing Room, Singapore2010 Slick Paris, The Drawing Room, Paris, France Passage, Liverpool Biennale 2010, TATE Gallery, Liverpool, UK2009SCOPE Basel, The Drawing Room, Kaserne Basel, Basel, SwitzerlandStock, Vargas Museum, The University of the Philippines, Manila, The PhilippinesIn-Flight, The 6th Asia Paciific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, AustraliaEuphoria, Dystopia, The Dreaming, Woodford Folk Festival, Woodford, AustraliaSatellite APT, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, AustraliaSCOPE New York, New York, USAImagine After Belief, Dojima River Biennale, Osaka, JapanArtissima, Artecontemporanea, Turin, ItalyBiennale Cuvee 09, World Selection of Contemporary Art, OK Contemporary Art Centre, Linz, Austria2008Code Share - 5 Continents, 10 Biennales 20 Artist, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius LithuaniaConcrete Culture, Exhibition + Symposium, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, AustraliaDream Blanket Project: Australia, Logan Art Centre, Queensland, AustraliaHandle with Care, Adelaide Biennale, Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia2007Moved, Galleria, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Adelaide, AustraliaAnother Country, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, Australia2006 Filipiniana, Be-longing Project: Homebound, Centro Conde Duque, Madrid, SpainBiennale of Sydney, Ivan Dougherty Gallery/Tin Shed Gallery, Sydney, Australia3rd Echigo Tsumari Trienniale, Necklace Project, Doichi Tokamachi, Japan2005Ten Days On The Island HWY#1, Manufactured History, The Railway Station, Penguin, Tasmania, AustraliaDreaming Now, The Rose Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA2004 Grain of Dust, Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale, Gwanju, KoreaQuantum Leap, Biwako Biennale, Shiga, Japan2003Dreams and Conflicts - The Viewer’s Dictatorship, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy2002Culture Meets Culture, Busan Biennal, Busan, KoreaUnder Construction (New Trends in Asian Contemporary Art), Japan

2002New Works, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The Philippines (solo)36 Ideas from Asia: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore1997Still, University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, Manila , The Philippines (solo)Re-forms, Alliance Francaise, Makati City, The Philippines1996Selected Works, Japan Cultural Center, Bangkok, Thailand (solo)1993Group Show, Australian Art Center, Manila, The PhilippinesCross Currents: Baguio Arts Festival, Baguio Convention Center, Baguio City, The Philippines1991Buling-Buling, Sining Makiling Gallery, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Laguna, The Philippines1990Art Lab Manila Inaugural Exhibition, Manila, The Philippines1989Works on Paper, Kulay-Diwa Galleries, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Metro-Manila, ARx II (Australia and the Regions Art Exchange) Exhibition, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Australia1988Mixed Media Drawings, Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Philippines (solo)Group Show, University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB), Laguna, The Philippines1987Inaugural Exhibit, Kulay Diwa Galleries, Manila, The Philippines1986Viewing the Numinous, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Paper, Point of Departure, Sining Makiling Gallery, University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB), Laguna, The Philippines (solo)Works on Paper, Art Finale Gallery, Manila, The PhilippinesPenguin Photographers Exhibit, Small Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines1985Palimpsest, De La Salle University Art Gallery, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Kunsan International Show, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Kunsan National Library, Republic of Korea1984Articulated Collar Bones, Penguin Gallery, Manila, The Philippines (solo)100 Totems, De La Salle University Art Gallery, Manila, The PhilippinesCCP Annual, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines1983Illuminated Pages, Hiraya Mezzanine Gallery, Manila, The Philippines (solo)CCP Annual, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines1981New Works, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines (solo)CCP Annual, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines

PRIZES AND AWARDS

13 Artists Award, 1980, Cultural Center of the Philippines, 1980

KAWAYAN DE GUIA

Born in the Philippines 1979 Lives and works in Baguio City, Philippines

SELECTED ExHIBITIONS

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UK India Art Summit, The Drawing Room, New Delhi, IndiaArt Stage Singapore, The Drawing Room, Singapore2010Bomba, Vargas Museum in cooperation with The Drawing Room, Quezon City, Philippines (solo)Another Country/Bomba Re Dux, MO Space, Makati City, PhilippinesSCOPE Basel, SwitzerlandHighland 8, Bencab Museum, Baguio City, The PhilippinesSlick Paris, Paris, FranceArtHK 08, Hong Kong2009Katas ng Pilipinas: God knows Judas not play, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The Philippines (solo)Pangatawanan mo na, P. Vargas Museum, Quezon City, The PhilippinesIce Cold Happiness, Soka Art Centre, Beijing in cooperation with The Drawing Room, The Philippines (solo)Pangatawanan mo na, P. Vargas Museum, Quezon City, The PhilippinesVerso Manila, Verso Artecontemporanea, The Drawing Room, Turin, Italy K+kkk+K = Kayos! (Order in Chaos), Rico Renzo Gallery, Makati City, The PhilippinesSundance, Silver Lens Gallery, Makati City, The PhilippinesFiguring the Times, Finale Art Gallery, Makati City,The PhilippinesNew Figuration, Indigo Gallery, Ben Cab Museum, Baguio City, The PhilippinesSino si Juan Outdoor Banner Project, UP Diliman, The Philippines2008SCOPE Miami, Miami, Florida, USAShowcase Singapore, SingaporeSwarm in the Aperture, National Museum, Manila, The PhilippinesSentimental Value, in collaboration with SOKA Contemporary Space and The Drawing Room, Beijing, ChinaCIGE 2008, Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China Bridge Art Fair, New York, USA2007Incubator, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The Philippines 22nd Asian International Art Exhibition, Senaryio Gallery, Bandung, IndonesiaLight Box Art, VOCAS, Baguio City, The Philippines KKK, Silver Lens Gallery, The Philippines2006Junk-tion Box, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines (solo)New Directions, The Rotunda Gallery, Neilson Hays Library, BangkokMyth, Magic and Metaphors, VOCAS, Baguio City, The PhilippinesSomething about Nothing, Lumiere Gallery, The Philippines2005WOGE Ateliertage, Munich, GermanyThe Spirit of Baguio, Gallery RHO, Seoul, KoreaMay Festival, Pinto Gallery, Manila, The PhilippinesFestive Art in Bloom, Baguio Country Club, The Philippines

Foundation, Tokyo, Japan2000Comunicacion, 7th Biennale of Havana, Havana, Cuba1999Beyond the Future, 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, AustraliaCommunication Channels for Hope, 1st Asian Art Triennial, Asian Arts Museum, Fukuoka, JapanPhillip Morris Asian Arts Awards, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia1997Individuo Y la Memoria, 6th Biennale of Havana, Havana, Cuba1991Asa Nisi Masa, MAFA Degree show, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UKManila-Pisa, Mail Art Exhibition, Pisa, Italy

RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ingrid Fischer, Another Country, Biennale Cuvee 2009, OK Contemporary Art Centre, Linz, AustriaAli Cain, Creative Recycling, Creating Art from Found Objects, Mer-cedes Magazine Australia 2009Hou Hanru, Addressing the Blackhole in Handle with Care, Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art. 2008Felicity Fenner, Fragile State in Handle with Care, 2008, Adelaide Biennale of Australian ArtToday’s Art From Tomorrow’s World, Art Asia Pacific Almanac, Vol.4, 2008 Today’s Art From Tomorrow’s World, Art Asia Pacific Almanac, Vol.2, 2008Matthew Ngui, Two installation at the Singapore Biennale 2008, Universe in Universe Magazine, 2008Today’s Art From Tomorrow’s World, Art Asia Pacific Almanac, Vol.3, 2007Gina Fairley, Project. Memory. Migration, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Eyeline, No.62, 2007John Silva, Filipiniana In Madrid’, A Contemporary Retelling of Spanish our Legacy, Starweek, Volume xx, No.20, 2006Juan Guardiola, ‘Filipiniana’ Memorias del Sobredesarollo (1986-2006), Emigracion y Diaspora, 2006Charles Merewether, Taking Place: Acts of Survival for a Time to Come, Zones of Contacts, Biennale of Sydney, 2006Patrick Flores, The Long Haul, Zones of Contacts, Biennale of Sydney, 2006Fram Kitagawa, Necklace Project, 3rd Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Niigata Japan, 2006

RODERICO JOSE DAROY

Born in 1954 in Manila, The Philippines

SELECTED ExHIBITIONS

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UK2010and of time, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The Philippines (solo)

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2004Asian Art Awards, National Museum, Bangkok, ThailandKapwa—Bukal ng Pagkataong Filipino, Mainstreaming Filipino Culture-Bearer and their Art, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philippines2003 Sungduan, NCCA Selection from Luzon, Sison Auditorium, Lingayen, Pangasinan, The PhilippinesBlack Saturday, Dulas Gallery, Bistro Salud, Baguio City, The PhilippinesActual-Virtual, Fukoka Prefectural Museum, Fukoka, Japan2002 Gestures of the Unfamiliar, Gallery Soap, Kitkakiushu, Japan (solo) Re-map Project, Laforet, Kitakiushu, Japan2001Earth to Sky, Lopez Memorial Museum, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Punok, Show at the Global Forest Movement Symposium, Hapao, Ifugao, The Philippines

PRIZES AND AWARDS

Ateneo Art Award (finalist), 2010Nokia Art Award, 200913 Artists Award, Cultural Center of the PhilippinesAteneo Art Award, 2008Outstanding Citizens of Baguio City, 2004Juror’s Choice, Asean Art Awards, 2004Philip Morris (Asean) Award (finalist), 2003

KIKO ESCORA

Born in 1970

SELECTED ExHIBITIONS

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UK India Art Summit, The Drawing Room, New Delhi, IndiaArt Stage Singapore, The Drawing Room, Singapore2010Slick Paris, The Drawing Room, Palais de Tokyo and Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France ArtHK 10, Hong Kong2009Mono, Utterly Art Exhibition Space in collaboration with The Drawing Room, Singapore (solo)Mapping Asia, China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE), in collaboration with SOKA Beijing, China (solo)Verso Manila, Verso Artecontemporanea in collaboration with The Drawing Room, Turin, ItalyIndia Art Summit, New Delhi, IndiaSCOPE New York, Lincoln Center, New York, USA2008Misfit, Ark Gallerie in collaboration with The Drawing Room, Jakarta, Indonesia (solo)Showcase Singapore, SingaporeArtHK 08, Hong Kong

Sentimental Value, SOKA Contemporary Space and The Drawing Room Gallery, Beijing, ChinaCIGE 2008 Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China Bridge Art Fair New York, New York, USA2007Map of the Problematique, The Drawing Room, The Philippines (solo)SCOPE Miami, Miami, USAARTSingapore, Singapore2006Dubai Art Fair, Dubai, UAENew Directions, The Rotunda Gallery, Neilson Hays Library, Bangkok, Thailand2005Heat Stroke, The Drawing Room, The Philippines (solo)2004Before Dawn, Taksu in collaboration with The Drawing Room, Singapore (solo)Personal Encounters, Utterly Art Exhibition Space, Singapore (solo)Body Portraits, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The Philippines (solo)LUSH, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The PhilippinesAteneo Art Awards, Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University, The PhilippinesAsian Pop, Art Seasons, SingaporePortraits, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia2003Familiar Strangers, The Drawing Room, The Philippines (solo)Sybaritic Dissonance, Alliance Francaise de Manille, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Social Reality, Art Center, Mandaluyong City, The Philippines (solo) Letras y Figuras, Ayala Museum, Makati City, The PhilippinesCCP 13 Artists Awards Exhibition, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines2002Smudge Honey, The Drawing Room, The Philippines (solo)Reservations Unspoken, Desires Unsaid, Utterly Art Exhibition Space, Singapore (solo)Deviant Slice, Big & Small Gallery, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Reverie, Pinto Art Gallery, Antipolo City, The Philippines (solo)Asian Art Contemporary, Singapore17th Asian International Art Exhibition, Daejeon, Korea & Ayala Museum, The PhilippinesPAINTED: Contemporary Southeast Asian Painters, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia2001Big Drawings, The Drawing Room, The Philippines (solo)Synthetic Solitude, Big+Small Art Co., The Philippines (solo)ASEAN Art Expo-Philippines, GSIS Museum, The PhilippinesBalik Guhit (Return to Drawing), Cultural Center of the Philippines2000Pencil Posturing, The Drawing Room, The Philippines (solo)Kelendaryo, U.P. Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, The Philippines

RIEL HILARIO

Born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, The Philippines, 1976

SELECTED ExHIBITIONS

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UK Topak: All in the Mind, Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, The PhilippinesIndia Art Summit, The Drawing Room, Delhi, IndiaArt Stage Singapore, The Drawing Room, Singapore2010If an apostle looks in no monkey can look out, The Drawing Room, The Philippines (solo)BaroBalasang, Art Informal, Mandaluyong City, The Philippines (solo)A Residency in Time, Art Informal, Mandaluyong CityShattering States, Ateneo Art Awards, Shangrila Atrium, Mandaluyong City, The PhilippinesAteneo Art Awards, Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, The PhilippinesInaugural exhibition, Pinto Art Museum, Antipolo City, The PhilippinesIcons of Rock: The Birth of Legends, Ricco Renzo Galleries, Makati City, The Philippines 2009Aniwaas, Art Informal, Mandaluyong City, The Philippines (solo)Anayo Dos, Art Informal, Mandaluyong City, The Philippines2008Santing, Art Informal, Mandaluyong City, The Philippines (solo)Alay 12, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines17 x 17 @ 17, Metro Gallery, San Juan City08.08.08, Britania Art Projects Gallery, Quezon City, The PhilippinesAlay 11, Art Center, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, The Philippines2007Lakbay, West Gallery, Mandaluyong City, The Philippines2006Homebound Sketches, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines (solo)2005Kadkaduwa, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines (solo)Alay 9, Pinto Art Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines2004Icones Symbolicae (two man show with Joel Alonday), Pinto Art Gallery, Antipolo City, The PhilippinesSungdu-an 3: National Traveling Exhibition, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines2003Kolorum, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines (solo)Sungdu-an 3: Making the Local, Sison Auditorium, Lingayen, Pangasinan2002Divining Grace, Pinto Art Gallery, Antipolo City, The Philippines (solo)2001Works without Faith, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines (solo)Alay 5, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines

PRIZES AND AWARDS

Shattering States, Ateneo Art Awards (shortlist), Ateneo Art Gal-lery Philippines, 20101st Asian Art Museum Forum, Beijing, China, 2006

The Multifaceted Curator, Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia Philippine Contemporary Art, Ipoh, Malaysia, 2005Sungdu-an 3, Grant Award, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2003

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Without Walls: A Tour of Philippine Art at the Millennium, Winrum Publishing, 2010Jose Santos III: Paintings 2004 - 2009, Tinaw Art Gallery, 2009Lifelines: Alex Tee, Monograph and Catalogue, 2008Jim Orencio, Monograph, Pinto Art Gallery, Antipolo City, 2003Jose Santos III: Personal Mythologies, Monograph, 2003Lino Severino’s Vanishing Scenes, Retrospective Monograph, Pinto Art Gallery, Antipolo City, 2002Antonio Leano: Quiescence, Monograph and Catalogue, 2002Emmanuel Garibay, Monograph, Pasig City, 2001

TROY IGNACIO

Born in 1979

SELECTED ExHIBITIONS

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UK Art Stage Singapore, The Drawing Room, Singapore2010Kahig, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The Philippines (solo)12 x 9, West Gallery, Quezon City, The PhilippinesManila Art 10, SMx Convention, SM MOA, Pasay City, The Philippines2009Cloud Cuckoo Land, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, The PhilippinesFlow Magazine Issue no.3, Silverlens Gallery, Makati City, The Philippines2005 Deklarasyon, The Cubicle Gallery, Pasig City, The Philippines 2004Disintegrated, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The Philippines (solo) Configured Drawings, CCP Pasilyo Guillermo Tolentino, Pasay City, The PhilippinesGamit, Vargas Museum, UP Campus, Quezon City, The Philippines Critical Conditions, The 1st Ateneo Art award, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, The PhilippinesArt Singapore, Singapore 2003Ako si Klangklang, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The Philippines (solo) Art Singapore, Singapore 2002 The Drawing Room at Taksu, Taksu Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia2001 6 Squares, Donada Art Gallery, Manila, The Philippines 2000 BAKAT, The Philippine Center, New York, USA

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Juror’s Choice Award, PAP National Open Print Competition, 2004Critical Conditions, The 1st Ateneo Arts Award (shortlist), 2004 Metrobank Art Competion (semi-finalist), 20021st Prize, National Occupational Health On-the-Spot Painting Contest, 2001PAP National Print Competition (finalist), 2000Metrobank Art Competition (semi-finalist), 2000

JOSE LEGASPI

Born in 1959

SELECTED ExHIBITIONS

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UK Art Stage Singapore, The Drawing Room, Singapore2010Slick Paris, The Drawing Room, Paris, FranceSCOPE Basel, Basel, Switzerland2009SCOPE Miami, Miami, USA Verso Manila, Verso Artecontemporanea in collaboration with The Drawing Room, Turin, ItalyIndia Art Summit, The Drawing Room, New Delhi, IndiaDorodoro, Doron, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, JapanEmotional Drawing, Soma Museum of Art, Songpa-gu, Seoul, KoreaArtHK 09, Hong Kong China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE), Beijing, ChinaSCOPE New York, New York, USA2008Catholic, SOKA Contemporary Space in cooperation with The Drawing Room, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)Emotional Drawing, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan SCOPE Miami, Miami, Florida, USAShowcase Singapore, SingaporeArtHK 08, Hong KongSentimental Value, Philippine Contemporary Art Exhibition in collabora-tion with SOKA Contemporary Space and The Drawing Room Gallery, Beijing, ChinaCIGE 2008 Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, ChinaBridge Art Fair New York, New York, USA2007 SCOPE Miami, Miami, Florida, USAArt Singapore, Singapore2006 New Directions, The Rotunda Gallery, Neilson Hays Library, Bangkok, ThailandBelief, Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore2005 RetroActive, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines

2004 Asian Art Contemporary, SingaporeLiving Arts, Queens Gallery, Bangkok, ThailandRude Shock, Penrith Gallery, Sydney, Australia2003 Poetic Justice, 8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey15 Tracks: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore36 Ideas from Asia, Contemporary South-East Asian Art, a traveling exhibition organized by the Singapore Art Museum, Sammlung Grothe, Duisberg, Germany; Helikon Kastelymuseum KHT, Hungary; Ruperti-num Museum de Moderne, Salzburg, Austria; National Museum of Abruzzo, L’Aquila, Italy2002 Under Construction, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, JapanAsia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia2001 Phlegm, Art In General, New York, USA (solo)From the Sea of Trees, Ashiya City Museum of Modern Art, Japan2000 Aberrations in Monochrome, Hiraya Gallery, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Poder de Narrar, Espai d’ Art Contemporani de Castillo, SpainFaith and the City, Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle- SIA College of the Arts, MalaysiaConfinement, Release and Exuberance, Tramhuis 1.2.3, Rotterdam, Netherlands1999Nightmare Obsession, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong (solo)1998Knives, Hiraya Gallery, Manila, The Philippines (solo)A Matter of Art, Philippine International Convention Center, Manila, The PhilippinesArchetypes, Tramhuis 1.2.3, Rotterdam, The Netherlands1997 Re-forms, Alliance Francaise de Manille, Makati City, The PhilippinesAcross Borders, Hiraya Gallery, Manila, The Philippines1995 Reframing A Heritage, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA1993 Kayumanggi Presence, Academy Art Center at Linekona, Hawaii, USA1992Profane Corpse, Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan, Australia (solo)Kazushi Kawashima and Other Desolate Gods, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines (solo)1991 My Life in the Resistance, ArtLab, Manila, The Philippines14 Nautical Miles, Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan, AustraliaThe UNESCO Poetry Event, Café Orfeo, Manila, The Philippines1990 Diary of A Dead Man, Art Lab, Manila, The Philippines (solo)1989 Dearest Kazushi, Kulay Diwa Art Gallery, Manila, The Philippines (solo)1980 Plantigraphs, Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Philippines (solo)

DIOKNO PASILAN

Born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, 1976

SELECTED ExHIBITIONS

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UK ID, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, Perth, Australia (solo)Dialogues with Landscape, University of West Australia, Perth, Australia2010Tiempo, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The Philippines (solo)Kurb Gallery at Dwellingup Arts Lab, Dwellingup Art Collective, AustraliaBagasbas Eco International Arts Festival, Bicol, The Philippines2009 Fill the Gap, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, Perth, Australia (solo)From the Island 3, Penguin Gallery, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Australia Does Not Exist, Kurb Gallery, Perth, AustraliaVerso Manila: Contemporary Filipino Artists in Turin, Artecontemporanea, Turin, ItalyKurb Perennial Performance Art 4, Kurb Gallery, Perth, Australia2008 Studio 310, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, Perth, Australia (solo)2007 From the Island 2, Mountford Gallery, Australia (solo)Living off the Bland, Kurb Gallery, Perth, AustraliaKurb Perennial Performance Art 2, Kurb Gallery, Perth, Australia2006 Kind Gong Band, Slot Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)Intercourse, Kurb Gallery, Perth, Australia (solo) Reach for It, Kurb Gallery, Perth, Australia2005From the Island, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, Perth, Australia (solo)Robertson Art 3, Robertson Park Studio, Perth, AustraliaLet’s Call it Art, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, Perth, Australia2004 Kemdeng, Galeri Kamarikutan, Palawan, The Philippines (solo)The Travelling National Exhibition, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The PhilippinesThe Blue Man, Ayala Museum, Makati, The Philippines2003 Time Will Tell, The Drawing Room, Makati, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Sungdu-An 3, Making the Local, Pangasinan, The PhilippinesAlon at Ako 1st, Bagasbas International Eco Arts Festival, Daet, The Philippines2002Tubhataha Reflection, Palawan Province, The Philippines2000Rhapsody, Old Brick Kilns, Maylands, AustraliaZen Tube Ado, Town of Vincent Robertson Park, Perth, Australia

LIRIO SALVADOR

Born in 1968

SELECTED ExHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UK India Art Summit, The Drawing Room, New Delhi, IndiaArt Stage Singapore, The Drawing Room, Singapore2010Slick Paris, The Drawing Room, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FranceSCOPE Basel, Basel, Switzerland2009 SCOPE Miami, Miami, USAVerso Manila, Verso Artecontemporanea in collaboration with The Drawing Room, Turin, ItalyIndia Art Summit, The Drawing Room, New Delhi, IndiaArtHK 09, Hong KongMapping Asia, China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE), China (solo)SCOPE New York, New York, USA2008 SCOPE Miami, Miami, Florida, USAShowcase Singapore, SingaporeArtHK 08, Hong KongCIGE 2008 Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China Bridge Art Fair, New York, USA2006 Dubai Art Fair, Dubai, UAE2003 Arts Month Celebration, De La Salle-Dasma, The Philippines 2002 Asean Art Contemporary, SingaporeStainless, The Drawing Room, Makati City, The PhilippinesELEMENTO, Alliance Francaise de Manille, Makati City, The PhilippinesHomage to Master II, MET Museum, The PhilippinesPangunahing Udyok 4, Greenhouse Effect Gallery, Baguio City, The PhilippinesInternational Baguio Arts Festival, Baguio City, The Philippines Chanting for Peace, Puerto Gallera, Mindoro, The Philippines2001 Tunog at Anyo: Sound Art Sculpture, Tam-Awan Village Gallery, The PhilippinesNine Objects: Tribute to Marcel Duchamp, Big Sky Mind/Alliance Francaise de Manille, Makati City, The PhilippinesDigital Sunset, CCP, Manila, The Philippines2000 Pangunahing Udyok 3, Surrounded by Water Gallery, The PhilippinesLaunching of Superferry 14, Bacolod-Illoilo, The Philippines1999 Pangunahing Udyok 2, Twisted Sun Gallery, The PhilippinesPsychle, Surrounded by Water Gallery, The Philippines As It Is, Surrounded by Water Gallery, The PhilippinesEarth Day Celebration, Quezon City Circle, Quezon City, The PhilippinesOnce in a Blue Moon, Twisted Sun Gallery, Manila, The Philippines1998 Alab ng Lahi, NCCA Gallery, The Philippines

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Alice Guillermo, Musical Assemblages, World Sculpture News, 2002Lilledishan Bose, Manila’s New Shiny, Tinny Sound, Asiaweek Mag-zine, 2000Distortion Box, Elemento, Urge: Subculture Issue No. 2

MARK SALVATUS

Born in 1980Lives and works in Lucban and Manila

SELECTED ExHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UK Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines (solo)LOST Projects, Manila, The Philippines (solo)India Art Summit, The Drawing Room, New Delhi, IndiaArt Stage Singapore, The Drawing Room, SigaporeVernacular Cultures amd Contemporary Art from Australia, India and The Philippines, LUMA, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia2010Attached, The Drawing Room, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Extensions: Zero-In, Lopez Museum, Manila, The PhilippinesWhat is Gunsan to Tell?, Gunsan Art Studio, South KoreaShattering States, Ateneo Art Awards, Ateneo Art Gallery & Shangri-la Plaza, Manila, The PhilippinesStructural Integrity, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, AustraliaVOLTA6, Basel, SwitzerlandFaith and Reason, Manila Contemporary, The PhilippinesSiren’s Hall, MO Space, Fort, Taguig, The PhilippinesSmokescreen, Tin-aw Gallery, Makati, The Philippines2009Court Yard, Pablo Gallery, Fort, Taguig, The Philippines (solo)Asia Panic, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju, South KoreaVerso Manila, Verso Arte Contemporanea & The Drawing Room, Turin, ItalySpirit of Asia, Gallery Nine, Gwangju, South KoreaForever and Ever and Ever and Ever, Valentine Willie Fine Art, SingaporeX-Change, Centre Culturel et de Coopération Linguistique, Surabaya, IndonesiaCurrent, Sungdu-an 5, National Art Gallery, National Museum, Manila, The PhilippinesTeXT, 5th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius, LituaniaEXCEPT, Sala Silentium, Bologna, Italy2008Good Morning Sickness, Nospace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (solo)Domestico ‘08, El Papel Del Artista, Calatrava, Madird, SpainRoad:Rode, At The Vanishing Point (ATVP) Contemporary Art, Sydney, AustraliaIn Transition, National Centres of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg and Moscow, RussiaHere We Are, CologneOFF, Cologne, GermanyAction Parties # 2, See Scape Art Hub / Wunderspaze, Chiang Mai, Thailand

TREK VALDIZNO

Born in Bulacan, The Philippines, 1968 SELECTED ExHIBITIONS

2011Stories of Dreams and Realities: Contemporary Art from The Philippines, Rossi & Rossi in association with The Drawing Room, London, UK Complete and Unabridged, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore2010Faith and Reason, Manila Contemporary, Makati, The PhilippinesAteneo Art AuctionLightning Show, Manila Contemporary, Makati, The PhilippinesSee You in Your Next Dream, Galleria Duemila, Manila, The Philippines2009 Art Singapore, The Drawing Room, SingaporeDrawing Painting Galleria, Pasay, The Philippines China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, ChinaManila Art, World Trade Center, Manila, The Philippines2009 Here Be Dragons, Manila Contemporary, Makati City, The PhilippinesArt Manila, Taguig City, The PhilippinesColoratura, mo_space, Taguig City, The PhilippinesRecurring Fancies, Artis Corpus Gallery, Mandaluyong City, The Philippines2008 Urgent Paintings from San Rafael, Bulacan, Artis Corpus Gallery, Mandaluyong City, The Philippines (solo)Inaugural Show, Mag:net Gallery, Makati City, The PhilippinesChristmas Show, Mag:net, Katipunan, Quezon City, The Philippines12 x 9 Show, West Gallery, SM Megamall, The Philippines2007 Nostalgia is not what it used to be, Mag:net, Katipunan, Quezon City, The PhilippinesPhantasmagoria, Mag:net Café, Taguig City, The Philippines (solo)Orbit, Spoon Restaurant, Quezon City, The Philippines (solo)Recent Works, Artés Café, Quezon City, The Philippines (solo)2006Reductio Ad Absurdum, mag:net Gallery ABS-CBN, Quezon City, The Philippines (solo)2005Non-geographic specific familiarity, Alliance Francaise de Manille, Makati City, The Philippines (solo)Blind Paintings, West Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines (solo)Surface Tensions, Finale Art File Gallery, Mandaluyong City, The Philip-pines (solo)Unna, Galeria Esperanza, San Pablo City, The PhilippinesZone, Mag:net Gallery Makati City, The Philippines2004 Christmas Show, West Gallery West Avenue, Quezon City, The PhilippinesTrip, Drawing Room, Makati City, The PhilippinesInventory, Cubicle Gallery, Pasig City, The PhilippinesThe Sedimentation of the Mind is a Jumbled Museum, Jorge Vargas Museum, UP Diliman, The Philippines2002 Reflecting Skin, Pinto Art Gallery, Antipolo City2001 True Confessions: Words, Thoughts, Acts, Art Center, SM MegamallFaith in the City, ABN AMRO House, Penang, Malaysia

Faith in the City, Valentine Willie Fine Arts, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia2000Luna, Ayala Museum, Makati City, The Philippines (solo)Faith in the City, Earl Lu Gallery, SIA College of the Arts, Singapore1999 Drawings in Color, Art Center SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, The PhilippinesRecent Drawings, Drawing Room, Makati City, The PhilippinesLightning Show, Big Sky Mind Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines 1998 Bodies of Water, Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo, CCP, Manila, The Philippines (solo)Ten: Recent Paintings, Lopez Museum, Pasig City, The PhilippinesU.P Alumni Association, Ayala Museum, Makati City, The PhilippinesEt al, Soumak, Makati City, The PhilippinesDrawings, Finale Art File, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, The Philippines

COMMISSIONS AND AWARDS

Shell Philippines: Shell Art Competition Finalist, 1998Philip Morris International: Philippine Art Awards, Jurors Choice, 1994MTV Philippines, 1997 LG Collins Philippines, 1997Movies, Television, Rating and Classification Board (MTRCB), 1997Philippine Airlines Lobby Lounge, 1997Kai Tak International Airport, Hong Kong, 1997

Roll Up, Grigore Mora Art Gallery, Bucharest, RomaniaHow to Destroy a Gallery?, LaVitrine Gallery, Maribor, SloveniaUrban Jealousy, 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Iran2007Embolicat, Ajuntament del Bruc Regidoria de Cultura, Barcelona, Spain (solo)Wrapped, Goyang Art Studio Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)Kasaysayang, Alab Art Space, Manila, The PhilippinesChonbuk International Sculpture Exhibition, Chonbuk Art Gallery, South Korea Tutok Perspektiba, Beato Angelico Gallery University of Santo Tomas, Manila, The Philippines2006Jumbled Sequence Connection, Cubicle Gallery, Pasig City, The Philippines (solo)Eyes Wide Open, Pablo Gallery, Quezon City, The Philippines (solo)Dos por Dos, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, The PhilippinesBoxed, Big Sky Mind Gallery, New Manila, Quezon City, The Philippines2005Re-representation, Beato Angelico Gallery, UST, Manila, The PhilippinesBrushes with Words and Chords II, UST Museum, Manila, The Philippines2003Philip Morris - Philippine Art Award Exhibit, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philippines

SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

Art OMI, New York, USALa Trobe University Grant, Australia, 2011Ataneo Art Award, Winner, 2010Common Room Networks Foundation Residency Grant, Indonesia, 2010Gunsan International Art Residency, South Korea, 2010Nokia Inquirer, 10 Most Exciting Young Artists, 2009ACAR Asia Cultural Artist Residency, Gwangju, South Korea, 2009Shatana International Residency, Jordan, 2009Arts Network Asia, Travel Grant, Indonesia, 2008National Book Award, Manila Critics Circle, 2007

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tessa Maria Guazon, Engaging with Audiences, Asian Art News, 2010Sam Marcelo, The Spirit of Defiance, Business World, Arts & Lifestyle, Manila, 2010Trickie Lopa, Mark Salvatus Gets Attached, Snippets from the Manila Art Scene, 2010Siddharta Perez, Do or Die, arterimalaysia.com, 2009Jen Tagasa, Breaking and Rendering, Fudge Magazine, 2009Mahyuddin Myra, Q&A, KLue Magazine, Malaysia, 2009Gino dela Paz, Draft Punk, Supreme, Philippine Star, 2009Gina Fairley, Asian Art News, 2008Flaudette May Datuin, Wrapped:Traces, CTRL+P Contemporary Arts Journal, 2008Siddharta Perez, Zones of Influence Catalog, Ateneo Art Awards, 2008Pardo, Barbara, Writings on the Wall, Metro Magazine, August 2008

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