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Solo Exhibitions
2025 forthcoming: Pasalubong, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Philippines2021 Entropical Latitudes, Mata Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2016 Cosmic Rivulet, The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri*
2015 California Consciousness, Alter Space, San Francisco, California*
2014 California Nightmare, State of the Art, Berlin, Germany*
2013 Rich Evidence, Horse and Pony Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany*
2010 The Pixie Troll Witch Hour: Into the 3 A.M. Void, Here, San Francisco*
Group Exhibitions
2024 EX MACHINA DEUS:MANMADE, Nexus Gallery, Makati, Philippines2024 Sala Space, Art Phair at Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture, San Pedro, California
2024 Lost in Translation, Olympia, New York
2024 Moved/Displaced, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
2023 Streams of Waste, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, The Netherlands
2023 Under the Same Sun, Edge on the Square, San Francisco, California
2023 A World of Islands, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames, 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, Manila, Philippines
2022 bad budz, Adjunct Positions, Los Angeles, California
2022 a line and a long gaze, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2022 Kapwa: Communal Spirit, Avenue 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2022 Polar Opposites, D21, Leipzig, Germany (Three-Person Collaborative Exhibition)
2022 Ecosystem X, Mozaik Philanthropy, Los Angeles, California
2021 Stampede, Horse & Pony, Berlin, Germany
2020 Switch, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2020 home, Acogedor Space, Los Angeles, California
2020 Superdomestic, AsukalSpace, Online Exhibition
2019 Araw ng mga Patay, Avenue 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2015 Glitch Cult, Essex Flowers, New York, New York*
2015 Friendship & Freedom, MASS Gallery, Austin, Texas*
2014 These Streams, ACRE TV, Chicago, Illinois*
2013 Science Fictions, Warschau, Berlin, Germany
2013 Translocura: Art at the Brink of Madness, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, California*
2012 Not Free Not Dead: The Psychedelic End, ATA, San Francisco, California*
2012 Interpanel Relationships: A Spatial Discussion, S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland, California*
2011 Reformation, Somerset County Jail, Skowhegan, Maine*
2011 Nightmare City Copy Lake The Horde, screening, Bei-Roy, Berlin, Germany*
2010 All that is Solid Melts Into Air, Queen’s Nails Projects, San Francisco, California*
2010 ATA Film & Video Festival, ATA, San Francisco, California*
2010 VOX VI, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*
2010 T-10, 21Grand, Oakland, California*
2010 A Light at the End of the Tunnel, Scope Basel Cinema, Basel, Switzerland*
2009 Mash Up Show, NOMA Gallery, San Francisco, California*
2009 D.U.I., Maniac, Oakland, California*
2008 30 Under 30, Varnish, San Francisco, California
2008 Disembody (in collaboration with 23E Studios), Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California*
2006 Friends of the Arts, 222 Club, San Francisco, California
2006 Bad Art for Bad People, CCA MFA Exhibition, San Francisco, California
Selected Bibliography
2024 habi habi po: “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
2022 Buchet-Déak, Elisabeth: “Hope and Beauty on the Edge of Collapse,” 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*
Talks, Panel, Workshops and Other Experience
2023 Artist Talk and Workshop, “Where is the Middle of the Sea,” Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London, U.K2023 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, Oregon
2022 Guest Lecturer - Advanced Sculpture: Trace/Time/Terrain, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois
2022 Co-Curator and Moderator, 2 x 2 Talks, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany
2022 Artist Talk, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany
2021 Guest Lecturer - History of Digital Media, CCA, San Francisco, California
2021 Artist Talk, Mata Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2013 Co-Curator, Not Free Not Dead: The Psychedelic End Screening, Horse & Pony, Berlin, Germany
Residencies
2025 forthcoming: Neo-Emerging Artist Residency (NEAR) Lucban, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Philippines 2023 The Burren College of Art, Co. Clare, Ireland
2023 Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2023 Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London, UK
2023 Emerging Islands, San Juan, La Union, Philippines
2022 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon
2022 Cowhouse Studios, Ballybawn, Co. Wexford, Ireland
2021 The Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, Ireland
2016 The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri*
2015 Jail Cell AIR at Alter Space, San Francisco, California*
2012 Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany*
2012 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont*
2011 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine*
2010 ACRE, Steuben, Wisconsin*
Awards & Honors
2024 Fellow, “Ecologies of Flourishing,” Puón Institute, San Fernando, La Union, Philippines2023 Fellow, Individual Artist Fellowship, California Arts Council
2023 Semi-Finalist & Alternate, Fulbright Open Research Fellowship
2022 Grantee, Arts Council Ireland, Agility Award
2022 Grantee, The Puffin Foundation, Visual Arts Grant
2022 Finalist, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Visual Arts Grant
2021 Grantee, Mozaik Philanthropy, Future Art Award: Ecosystem X
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
Published Writing
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 Gallery2022 “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*
2012 “Fuzzy Logic,” Nightmare City Publications in collaboration with Sarrita Hunn*
2011 “Sssux to be Usss,” Nightmare City Publications*
Education
2006 MFA Sculpture; California College of the Arts, San Francisco2004 BFA Sculpture & Women’s and Gender Studies; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
*denotes as collaborative duo Nightmare City