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Abad, Pacita
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5 October 1946 – 7 December 2004
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Education:
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| 1953-63 |
Basco
and Legarda Elementary School
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| 1968 |
University of the Philippines, Bachelor of Arts
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| 1972 |
University of San Francisco, M. A.
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| 1975-77 |
Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D. C.
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| 1978 |
Art Students League of New York
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Selected Solo Exhibitions:
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| 2005 |
“A Special Tribute To Pacita Abad A Philippine-American
Artist”, School of Economics and Social Sciences
Singapore Management University, Singapore (Post-Humous) |
| 2004 |
“Circles In My Mind”, Cultural Center of the
Philippines, Manila, curated by
Prof. Ruben Defeo (catalogue) |
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“Pacita Abad : Recent Works”, Genome Institute of
Singapore |
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“Pacita’s Painted Bridge”, Robertson Quay, Singapore |
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“Circles in my Mind”, AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA, USA |
| 2003 |
“Circles In My Mind”, Singapore Tyler Print Institute,
Singapore |
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“Endless Blues”, Hadeland Museum, Hadeland, Norway;
Gallery Stockgard, Siuntio, Finland |
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Launched Batik Dinnerware |
| 2002 |
“Endless Blues”, Artfolio Gallery, Singapore |
| 2001 |
"The Sky is the Limit", Finale Art Gallery, The Art Center, SM Megamall |
| 1999 |
"Door To Life," travel exhibit to Artfolio, Singapore, Hiraya
Gallery, Manila; Bomani Gallery, San Francisco; Gibson Art
Gallery, Washington, D.C., (catalogue)
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| 1998 |
"Abstract Emotions," National Museum, Jakarta (catalogue)
"Abstract Emotions," Hiraya Gallery, Manila
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| 1996 |
Artists & Community, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts,
Virginia Beach, Virginia
"Exploring the Spirit," National Gallery of Indonesia (catalogue)
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| 1995 |
"Thinking Big," curated by Cora Alvina, Metropolitan Museum
of Manila
Artists & Community, The National Museum in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
"Twenty-Four Flowers," Liongoren Art Gallery, SM Megamall,
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
"Postcards from the Edge," Galleria Duemila, SM Megamall,
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
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| 1994 |
Artist + Community: "People of Color: The Immigrants
Experience", National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
D.C. Curator: Angela Adams, with catalogue
"Assaulting the Deep Sea", curated by Mark Scala, Art Museum of Western Virginia (brochure)
"The American Dream," curated by Angela Adams, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (brochure)
"Assaulting the Deep Sea," curated by Deborah McLeod,
Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport, Virginia
"Wayang, Irian and Sumba," National Museum, Jakarta (catalogue)
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| 1993 |
"Flower Paintings," Philippine Center, New York
Mask Paintings, Frostburg University, Frostburg, Maryland
People of Color: The Immigrant Experience, National Museum
of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
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| 1992 |
"Abstract Emotions," Philippine Center, New York |
| 1991 |
Small Paintings, Luz Gallery, Makati City, Philippines
"Wild At Art," Ayala Museum, Makati City, Philippines
Pacita Abad & Edgar Sorrells-Adawale, Pyramid Atlantic, MD
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| 1990 |
Recent Paintings, Philippine Center, New York
Masks of my Imagination, Astraea Gallery, Washington D.C.
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| 1989 |
"Trapunto Paintings," Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Pacita Abad, Martin Luther King Library, Washington D.C.
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| 1988 |
"Asian Abstractions," Fables Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Canvas Collages, Martin Luther King Library, Washington D.C.
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| 1987 |
Asian African Images, International Monetary Fund,
Washington, D. C.
Paper Collages, Foxley Leach Gallery, Washington, D. C.
Underwater Paradise, Philippine Center, New York
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| 1986 |
"Oriental Abstractions," curated by Michael Chen, Hong Kong Arts
Center, Hong Kong (catalogue)
Assaulting the Deep Sea, installation show, Ayala Museum
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| 1985 |
"Batanes - Landscape and People," curated by Ray Albano,
Cultural Center of the Philippines
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| 1984 |
"A Painter Looks at the World," curated by Arturo Luz,
Museum of Philippine Art, Manila, (catalogue)
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| 1982 |
"Scenes from the Upper Nile," curated by Amy Lighthill, Boston
University Art Gallery, Massachusetts (catalogue)
City Scenes of Old Sto. Domingo, Walters Gallery, Wellesley,
Massachusetts
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| 1981 |
Portraits of Cambodia, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston
Curator: Chatvichai Prommadhatvethi
"Streets of Santo Domingo," Curated by Isabel Caceres de De Castro, Altos de Chavon, La Romana, Dominican Republic
(catalogue)
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| 1980 |
Portraits of Kampuchea, Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art,
Bangkok, Thailand
Curator: Chatvichai Prommadhatvethi
"Portraits of Cambodia," curated by Daeng Chatvichai Promadhathavedi, Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art, Bangkok, Thailand
People of Wau, New England Center for Contemporary Art, Conn.
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| 1979 |
"Recent Paintings of the Sudan," curated by Abdullah Shibrain, Exhibition Hall, Khartoum, Sudan
People of Wau, The Oriental Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
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| 1978 |
"Paintings of Bangladesh," Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Selected Group Exhibitions:
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| 2004 |
5th Hugo and 6th Pacific
Conference on Human Genetics, Singapore |
| 2003 |
Seoul International Women’s Art Fair”, Korea |
| 2000 |
“ARTSingapore 2000”, First Contemporary Southeast Asian
Art Festival at Singapore’s Ministry of
Information and the Arts
PAMANA NG PILIPINO Awards for
outstanding achievement in the arts, given by the President of the
Philippines, Manila
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| 1999 |
“Handmade: Shifting Paradigms”, curated by Tay Swee Lin,
Singapore Art Museum (catalogue)
“Women Beyond
Borders”, traveling exhibit organized by Lorraine
Serena, National Museum of Women in the
Arts, Southern California, USA; Akino Fuku Museum, Japan; Tin Sheds
Gallery, University of Sydney, Australia; Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney,
Australia; Gallery Saigon, Vietnam “Histories (Re)membered:
Selections from the Permanent Collection”, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York
“V’spartio (Very Special Arts)”, Artfolio Gallery, Singapore and Osaka, Japan
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| 1998 |
"At Home and Abroad: 21 Contemporary Filipino Artists,"
curated by Cora Alvina, Dana Fritz-Hansen and Jeff Baysa,
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Manila (catalogue)
"Pagdiriwang" (Celebration), curated by Cora Alvina,
Metropolitan Museum of Manila
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"Alab Ng Puso", Tall Galleries, Metropolitan Museum |
| 1997 |
"New Asia Art," Hong Kong Visual Arts Center, Hong Kong
"World Batik Exhibition," Ardiyanto Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
"Filipino Artists Abroad," Metropolitan Museum of Manila
"1997 National Craft Acquisition Award," Museum and Art Gallery
of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia
"Talk Back!" The Community Responds to the Permanent Collection,
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
"8th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibit," Taipei Fine Arts
Museum, Taiwan (catalogue)
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| 1996 |
"7th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibit,"
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (catalogue)
"National Craft Acquisition Award," Museum and Art Gallery
of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia
"Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in contemporary
Visual Art," curated by Yong Soon Min and Alan de Souza, traveling exhibit to University of California Art Gallery
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| 1994-96 |
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts
Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusets; Blaffer Gallery,
University of Houston
Out of Asia: Issues of Identity in Asian American Art, The Asia
Society, New York
Curator: Margo Machida, this show will travel to Tacoma Art
Museum, Washington, D.C.
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| 1995 |
"Looking at Ourselves: The American Porteait," curated by Laura
Vookles, Hudson River Museum of Westchester in New York (brochure)
"Eight Paths to a Journey: Cultural Identity and the Immigration
Experience," curated by Mel Watkin, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Virginia
"Defining Ourselves," curated by Anna Fariello, Radford University
Galleries, Radford Virginia
Contemporary Art of the Non-Aligned Countries," curated by G. Sheikh, T.K. Sabapathy, A. Poshyananda and Jim Supangkat,
Nationasl Gallery of Indonesia (catalogue)
"AKO, Filipino Self Portraits," curated by Cora Alvina,
Metropolitan Museum of Manila
"disOriented: Shifting Identities of Asia Women in America,"
curated by Margo Machida, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery and Henry Street Settlement Abrams Art Center, New York
Thinking Big, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines |
| 1994 |
Beyond the Border: Art by Recent Immigrants," curated by Betti Sue
Hertz, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, New York (catalogue)
La Bienal de la Habana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
"TOUCH, Beyond the Visual," curated by Angela Adams and Paula Owen, a travelling exhibition organized by the Hand Workshop, Richmond Virginia, to include Sawtooth Center for the Visual Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, Virginia; Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, Virginia (catalogue)
"Women's Spirit with Pacita Abad, Huang Liu, Amalia Mesa-Bains,
Howardena Pindell, Joyce Scott," Bomani Gallery, San Francisco
"Asia /America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art,"
curated by Margo Machida, an exhibition organized by the Asia Society Galleries, New York, to include Tacoma Art Museum, Washington; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Honolulu Academy of fine Arts, Hawaii; Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusets; and Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas (catalogue)
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| 1993 |
A Common Thread, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco and CRT
Craft Guild, Hartford, CT Curator: Nashormeh Lindo
Dress Forms
District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington D.C.
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| 1992 |
MASTER PRINTS: From the Rutgers Center for Innovative
Printmaking, The Gallery at Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton,
New Jersey
"Crossing Over/ Changing Places," curated by Jane Farmer, sponsored by USIA, a travelling exhibit in the United States and Europe including Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Helsinki City Art Kunstmuseum, Denmark; National Gallery of Art, Athens; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
WPA at The Hemicycle, Corcoran Gallery,
Curators: A. Prokop, M. Zeilin, S. Hoi, J. Jashinsky,
K. Buster, M. Platt and J. Goodman
"Washington Project for the Arts at the Hemicycle," curated by Marilyn
Zeitlin, Alan Prokop, Judy Jashinsky and Sammy Hoi, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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| 1990 |
"Nine Paths to a Journey: The immigrant Experience," Curated by Mel
Watkin, Ellipse Gallery, Arlington, Virginia (brochure)
"Fiber: The State of the Art," Curated by Rebecca Stevens,
Mayerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute of Art and College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Reconsideration of Racism Today, School 33 Art Center,
Baltimore, MD Curated by Geno Rodriguez
"A Day of the Dead," Curated by Geno Rodriguez,
Alternative Museum, New York (brochure)
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| 1989 |
"Art for Africa," Curated by Andre Parinaud travelling exhibition in museums in Paris, Oslo, Cologne, Algiers, London and Rome
Dia de los Muertos, Alternative Museum,
Curator: Geno Rodriguez
Gallery of St. John the Divine Cathedral, New York, U.S.A.
Blumenson and Shauber Gallery, Long Island, New York, U.S.A.
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| 1988 |
International Art Show for the End of World Hunger, Barbican
Center, London and Musee des Arts Africains et Oceaniens, Paris
Curator: Andre Parinaud
"Olympiad of Art," (in conjuction with the 24th Olympics) curated by Ante Glibota, Pierre Restany, Thomas Messer and Uske, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (catalogue)
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| 1987 |
Seoul Contemporary Asian Art, National Museum, Seoul
Curator: Hyun Kim, catalogue
"La Bienal de la Habana," curated by Jose de Ayala, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Habana, Cuba (catalogue)
"UNESCO: 40 years, 40 Countries, 40 Artists," curated by Andre Parinaud, travelling exhibit in museums of 40 member countries
Paris, (catalogue)
"First International Print Bienale," curated by Huang Tsai-lang
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (catalogue)
"Asian Art Bienale," Curated by Syed Jahangir, National Museum,
Dhaka (catalogue)
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| 1985 |
Three Faces of Philippine Art, BMW Gallery, Munich,
Germany
Curator: Rod Paras Perez, catalogue
"Second Asian Art Show," curated by Nonon Padilla, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan (catalogue)
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| 1984 |
"Association of South East Asian Countries," curated by Rod Paras
Perez, a travelling exhibition in museums in six South East Asian countries
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Awards and Grants:
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| 1998 |
"Filipina Firsts: a compendium of 100 Filipino women who have
excelled in their fields," sponsored by Philippine American Foundation
in Manila and Washington, D.C.
Likha Award, in recognition of outstanding achievement in the visual
arts in the United States
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| 1995 |
Excellence 2000 Awards for the Arts, given by the U.S. Pan Asian
American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C.
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| 1994-95 |
Visiting Artist Fellow, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
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| 1993-94 |
Artist Workshop Program, Virginia Museum of Fine Art |
| 1993 |
Resident Artist, OPUS B, a production company in Maryland creating collaborations between elders, inner-city youth, and artists |
| 1992-98 |
Resident Fellow, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA
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| 1991-92 |
GIA Grant, D.C. Commission on the Arts
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| 1991 |
Artist-in-residence, Gwendolyn Caffritz Award, Pyramid
Atlantic, Maryland
Artist-in-residence, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking,
New Jersey
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| 1990-95 |
MetroArt II Award, Mural installed at Metro Center, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D. C.
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| 1989-90 |
Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
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| 1988-89 |
Visiting Artist Program, New York State Council on the Arts |
| 1988-92 |
GIA Grant, D.C. Commission on the Arts |
| 1984 |
TOYM Award, Most Outstanding Artist in the Philippines
Artist-in-residence, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
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