BORN:        11 September 1965

EDUCATION

University of the Philippines Diliman
(candidate) Master of Fine Arts, Major in Studio Arts

University of Santo Tomas Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Advertising

ART GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

Freeman Fellow
Vermont Studio Center
Vermont, U.S.A.

Participating Artist
Asian Cultural Council

Art Grant
National Commission on Culture and Arts

INTERNATIONAL ART ENDEAVORS

Video Art, Madrid, Spain Collaborative Work with Video Artists-Ana Cabello and Helena Carceller

Balikbayan (independent film), NY USA (winner best short film Cinemanila Intl Filmfest 2004) Collaborative Work with Filmmakers -Larilyn Sanchez and Riza Manalo

Vermont Studio Center, USA Artist Residency

Queer Art Exhibit, USA  St. Paul’s Gallery, Columbia University, New York

Selected Solo Exhibits

INSTALLATIONS Java Jazz Café, Tagaytay
An assemblage that  follows the tradition of crafting beauty from recycling materials exemplified by Arte Povera, yet the artist seeks to spin her own niche by steeping her work into the intimately local and ultimately global contexts of the junk of Cavite and Tagaytay.  The new works arise from levels of construction perceived, challenged, and manipulated by the artist choosing a a decisively discursive position as both a collector of garbage and a creator of beauty, the show being a ringside view of the face-off between commercial product and socially-engaged art, between the designs of big business and the vision of an artist.

RIGODON Art Informal
The series is an invitation to storytelling. All by itself one strikes as insight. Taken together, all the frames form a puzzle informed by all the permutations of arrangement and movement within the eye: along the manifold possibilities of jumbling the tiles.  Pieced together every which way, the series generate stories. The frames extend the dance between artist and medium to involve the whimsy and memory of the art viewer, the artseeker who becomes co-maker.

FLORES DE MAYO Gourmet Café, Silang Cavite
A contributing exhibit to the series of Grupo Ocho launching shows at Gourmet Café.  Grupo Ocho is is composed of visual artists including sculptors, painters, photographers and multi-media artists from different parts of Cavite. who decided to come together to highlight the local artists of Cavite and to contribute in introducing Cavite, as one of the art centres outside Metro Manila.

DIRECTIONS Drawing Room, Metropolitan Avenue Makati
An exhibit of the recent works showcasing the artist’s exploration in story telling using layering and composition techniques with stencils.

FLIGHT SERIES Black Room, Kulay Diwa
An exhibit depicting initial exploration of stencils to juxtapose time with travel, memories and directions.

DOON DITO (There, Here) Syano Art Link Paranaque City
An exhibit of the output artworks from the Vermont Art Studio residency. The female toilet sign is distorted into flowing figures with backgrounds of spots of colors to represent fireflies, spiders spinning webs of time, scissors, and the Sampaguita flower. The figures move within constricted compartments.

GAY COLORS Likha Diwa sa Gulod Diliman, Quezon City
An exhibit of works on various lesbian and gay themes using gay colors.

BATU-BATUHIN ANG LANGIT,  TAMAAN SINONG MAGAGALIT Galeria 1 Faculty Center  University of the Philippines
A masteral thesis exhibit, this was a showcase of the artist's body of work including paintings and installation pieces,  completed in the course of completing her thesis on lesbian visual art.

FLORES DE MAYO Likha Diwa sa Gulod,  Diliman, Quezon City - A unique series of flower paintings in acrylic using palette knife.  The artist dedicates this exhibit to her mother, Flores, for her 69^th birthday in May.  The paintings explode in various colors and moods depicting the different seasons of life.

UMAAPOY NA TAKIPSILIM Likha Art House, Tagaytay City
A collection of 20 oil pastel paintings illustrating the fall of dusk.  The artist uses her unique style and her vibrant use of color to interpret the different emotions related to  this particular time of day.

ILAW SA GABING MADILIM Kaveso Cafe Timog Ave. Quezon City - A collection of nightscapes and landscapes, with the artist's distinct application of colors and her unique style in oil pastel. She creatively wields colors to present moonlight, twilight, a hint of storm, and a whisper of light.  Her landscapes trifle with different shades of green to capture the fragrance of the wind cavorting among mango trees.

LIMANG BUWAN, DALAWANG GABI Blue Cafe Malate,Manila Skies lit in moonlight are rendered in oil pastel.  The collection of paintings depict the mixed emotions we feel as we take time to look up on certain nights to feel the magic and wonder of nighttime.

Selected Group Exhibits

PASYONASYON Kasibulan 20^th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Main Gallery

GURI ; Grupo Otso Anniversary Exhibit , Java Jazz , Tagaytay

Aguinaldo sa Aguinaldo Gourmet Café, Silang Cavite

HABAGAT Alfonso Hotel, Alfonso Cavite

GREEN DAY Gourmet Café, Silang Cavite

ART AFFAIR Java Jazz , Tagaytay

EROS ALAB Art Space, Intellectual Proeprty Office Makati

3SOME in Tagaytay  Magallanes Square Tagaytay 

RETROACTIVE Philippine Art through the Asian Cultural Council grant, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Main Gallery

ANG UNNA Galleria Esperanza, Kusina Salud Compound San Pablo City

BAGONG PANAHON Kulay Diwa Gallery, Sucat Paranaque

BALAYBAY@KASIBULAN.NET Main Galllery, Cultural Center of the Philippines

TITAMARIALMAIRMA Conversations with 19^th century artists’, Surrounded by Water Gallery

CROSSING The Drawing Room, Makati

ANTING-ANTING Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines

KASALI KAMING KASARI NINYO   Women’s Month Celebration, UP Institute of Women Studies

WHO OWNS WOMEN’S BODIES? 
Cultural Center of the Philippines November 2000
National and International Tour funded by Ford Foundation (2000-2004)

SUNGDU-AN 2000 - Confluence on the Threshold (National Visual Arts Exhibit)
Cultural Center of the Phils.   1 Feb - 27 Mar 2000
National Tour       Apr - Dec 2000

WOMEN ARTISTS – Celebrating the 25^th anniversary of ISIS  ISIS International, Manila Office

WOMENSCAPE Sands Gallery, Teachers' Village Quezon City

INTIMATIONS OF DESIRE Cafe Caribana, Malate, Manila