CV
Solo Exhibitions
2026 forthcoming: Export Quality, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach
2025 PASALUBONG, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Philippines (catalogue)
2021 Entropical Latitudes, Mata Art Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
2016 Cosmic Rivulet, The Luminary, St. Louis*
2015 California Consciousness, Alter Space, San Francisco*
2014 California Nightmare, State of the Art, Berlin, Germany*
2013 Rich Evidence, Horse & Pony, Berlin, Germany*
Group Exhibitions
2026 forthcoming: The Irish Contemporaries 5, Contemporary Irish Arts Center, Los Angeles
2026 The Distance We Carry, Give Hope Studios, Los Angeles
2026 A World of Islands, Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2025 Unyielding, West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2025 To Gather Together, Gravity Art Space, Quezon City, Philippines (catalogue)
2025 Sari Buhay, Na’ay Po, Lucena City, Philippines
2025 Naman, LA Artcore, Los Angeles
2024 Ex Machina Deus, Nexus Gallery, Makati, Philippines
2024 Art PHair, Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture, Los Angeles
2024 Conference Call: Lost in Translation, Olympia Gallery, New York
2024 Moved/Displaced, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana
2023 Under the Same Sun, Edge on the Square, San Francisco
2023 Streams of Waste, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, The Netherlands
2023 A World of Islands, curated by Ligaya Salazar, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK
2022 HITHERTO VI: Notes on Impermanence, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Philippines
2022 Rinconcito Tropical, El Centro del Conocimiento Migrante, Portland
2022 The Riddle of Materials, Galleria Duemila, Pasay, Manila, Philippines
2022 bad buds, Adjunct Positions, Los Angeles
2022 a line and a long gaze, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles
2022 Kapwa: Communal Spirit, Avenue 50 Gallery, Los Angeles
2022 Polar Opposites, D21, Leipzig, Germany (three-person exhibition)
2022 Ecosystem X, Mozaik Philanthropy, Los Angeles (catalogue)
2021 Stampede, Horse & Pony, Berlin, Germany
2020 Switch, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2020 home, Acogedor Space, Los Angeles
2020 Superdomestic, AsukalSpace, Online Exhibition
2019 Araw ng mga Patay, Avenue 50 Gallery, Los Angeles
2015 Glitch Cult, Essex Flowers, New York*
2015 Friendship & Freedom, MASS Gallery, Austin*
2014 These Streams, ACRE TV, Chicago*
2013 Science Fictions, Warschau, Berlin, Germany*
2013 Translocura: Art at the Brink of Madness, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin*
2012 Not Free Not Dead: The Psychedelic End, ATA, San Francisco*
2012 Interpanel Relationships: A Spatial Discussion, S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland*
2011 Reformation, Somerset County Jail, Skowhegan*
2010 All that is Solid Melts Into Air, Queen’s Nails Projects, San Francisco* (three-person exhibition)
2010 ATA Film & Video Festival, ATA, San Francisco*
2010 VOX VI, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA*
2010 T-10, 21Grand, Oakland*
2010 A Light at the End of the Tunnel, Scope Basel Cinema, Basel, Switzerland*
2009 Mash Up Show, NOMA Gallery, San Francisco*
2008 D.U.I., Maniac, Oakland*
2008 Disembody (in collaboration with 23E Studios), Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles*
2007 30 Under 30, Varnish, San Francisco
2006 Material World, Alliance Francaise, San Francisco
2006 Bad Art for Bad People, CCA MFA Exhibition, San Francisco
Awards and Honors
2026 Grantee, Artists Resistance Through Solidarity, Educational Workshop Microgrant
2025 Grantee, Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Get Ready Grant
2025 Artist in Residence, Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2025 Alan Jutzi Fellow, The Huntington Library, Pasadena
2025 Artist in Residence, Neo-Emerging Artist Residency, Lucban, Philippines
2024 Grantee, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant
2024 Fellow, “Ecologies of Flourishing,” Puón Institute, San Fernando, La Union, Philippines
2023 Fellow, Individual Artist Fellowships, California Arts Council
2023 Artist in Residence, The Burren College of Art, County Clare, Ireland
2023 Artist in Residence, Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2023 Artist in Residence, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, U.K.
2023 Semi-Finalist & Alternate, Fulbright Open Research Fellowship
2023 Artist in Residence, Emerging Islands, San Juan, La Union, Philippines
2022 Grantee, Arts Council Ireland, Agility Award
2022 Artist in Residence, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon
2022 Grantee, The Puffin Foundation, Visual Arts Grant
2022 Finalist, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Visual Arts Grant
2022 Artist in Residence, Cowhouse Studios, Ballybawn, Co. Wexford, Ireland
2021 Grantee, Mozaik Philanthropy, Future Art Award: Ecosystem X
2021 Artist in Residence, The Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Ireland
2016 Artist in Residence, The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri*
2015 Artist in Residence, Jail Cell AIR at Alter Space, San Francisco, California*
2012 Artist in Residence, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany*
2012 Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont*
2011 Artist in Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine*
2010 Artist in Residence, ACRE, Steuben, Wisconsin*
2005 Grantee, Graduate Fellowship, Sculpture Department, California College of the Arts
2004 Grantee, Graduate Fellowship, Sculpture Department, California College of the Arts
2004 Recipient, Outstanding Senior Award, Sculpture Dept, UIUC School of Art + Design
2003 Recipient, Merit Scholarship, Sculpture Department, UIUC School of Art + Design
2002 Recipient, Merit Scholarship, Sculpture Department, UIUC School of Art + Design
Bibliography
2026 Singian-Serzo, Lala: “Locating the ‘tropics’ in ‘A World of Islands,’” Inquirer Lifestyle.
2026 Marquez, Francine M.: “‘World of Islands’ traverses the diaspora that binds us,” BusinessMirror.
2025 Dimaranan, Janine Go: “Pasalubong,” Exhibition Catalog, Project Space Pilipinas.
2024 habi habi po collective: “maghabi magkatabi” Philippine Studies Group at the York Centre for Asian Research, York University.
2024 Hoffman, Susan: “Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Alumni Exhibition Now at OCCCA,” LA Times, SoCal Daily Pilot
2022 Buchet-Déak, Elisabeth: “Hope and Beauty on the Edge of Collapse: The Artist as Care-Giver and Composter in Times of Ecological Uncertainty,” Mozaik E-Zine
2022 Interview, “Antipodal World Making: Following the Blue Plastic Thread,” Human Nature Magazine, D21 Kunstraum
2022 Exhibition Catalog, “Future Art Awards: Ecosystem X,” Mozaik Philanthropy
2021 Suico-Soriano, Irene: "Target 2°C,” Exhibition Catalog, Mata Art Gallery
2015 Tedford, Matthew Harrison: “The Photic Wave is a Cult You’ll Want to Join,” SF Weekly*
2015 Puleo, Risa: “Friendship & Freedom,” Modern Painters*
2015 Anani, Katie: “Critics’ Pick: Friendship and Freedom,” Artforum*
2010 Gannon, Victoria: “Going to California: Nightmare City,” Art:21*
2009 Ritchie, Andy: “A Breathalyzer of Fresh Air,” ArtSlant*
Related Professional Experience
2026 forthcoming: Community Workshop, “Where is the Middle of the Sea,” TeAda Productions' Creative Healing Lab, Los Angeles
2026 forthcoming: Community Workshop, Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2025 Community Workshop, “Entwined Spheres,” Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Philippines
2024 Community Workshop, GABRIELA LA x Langit Lupa, Active Cultures, Los Angeles
2024 Artist Talk, Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture, San Pedro
2023 Artist Talk and Community Workshop, “Where is the Middle of the Sea,” Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London, U.K
2023 Resident Artist Talk, “alterlife: material entanglement and ongoing becoming,” Emerging Islands, La Union, Philippines
2023 Resource Speaker, “Kaalam sa Hinabing Banig: Ecology, Traditions, Transformations, and Diaspora,” Visayas State University, Baybay, Leyte, Philippines
2022 Resident Artist Talk, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis
2022 Guest Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
2022 Co-Curator and Moderator, “2 x 2 Talks,” Panel Discussion, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig
2022 Artist Talk, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig
2021 Guest Lecturer - History of Digital Media, CCA, San Francisco
2021 Artist Talk, Mata Art Gallery
2013 Co-Curator, “Not Free Not Dead: The Psychedelic End,” Screening, Horse & Pony, Berlin
Selected Publications
2023 “something meant for you when you welcome me back: translocal material entanglement across a global arkipelago,” A World of Islands: On Palms, Storms & Coconuts, Stanley Picker Gallery
2022 “Gimme Shelter: Changing Contexts of Banig Weaving in a Changing Climate,” Rare Earth, D21 Kunstraum
2021 "Entropical Latitudes," Exhibition Catalog, Mata Art Gallery
2019 “Entropical Latitudes,” Poetry Collection, Hexahedra Press
2015 “Faunic Witches Floral Bitches,” Nightmare City Publications*
Education
2006 MFA Sculpture; California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2004 BFA Sculpture & Women’s and Gender Studies; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
*denotes as collaborative duo Nightmare City