EDUCATION
2002-05 MFA Mixed-Media, The City College – CUNY, NYC
1993-98 BFA Painting, Binghamton University – SUNY, Binghamton, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Alagaan ang Salaysáy (Take Care of the Story), Flux IV, Long Island City, NY
2025 Makibaka, with Abang-guard, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
2021 Lights, Tunnels, Passages, & Shadows, Center for Book Arts, NYC
2021 Sympoietica, solo performance, Governors Island Colonels Row 404A, NYC
2007 Parallel Time, Lab Gallery at Roger Smith Arts, NYC
2006 I Dream of Noah’s Ark, The Kimmel Center at New York University, NYC
2003 Yellow Brick Road, solo performance, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Spectalia, Every Woman Biennial x Pen & Brush Gallery, NYC
2026 Theseus’s Craft – The Paradox of the Real, Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC
2025 The Truth As I See It, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY
2025 Nomadic Instincts, Matca Art Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2024 Form 2024, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2024 Queering Pilipinx Aesthetics: Haw, Haw, the Queerabao!, Kularts, San Francisco
2024 Fallow Frames Biennial, Ridgewood, NY
2024 PERFECT IMPERFECT: The Transience of Things, Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC
2024 Dyke+ Arthaus visits the Bureau, Bureau of General Services-Queer Division, NYC
2024 Contemporary Landscapes, Gallery Omnibus, Dresden, Germany
2024 You are (not) Invited II, The Kitchen Project at All Street Gallery, NYC
2023 Invisible Bodies, HUB-Robeson Galleries, Pennsylvania State University, PA
2023 More Than Lumpia, Epiphany Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2023 Invisible Hands, 601 Artspace, NYC
2023 In pieces…, PS 122 Gallery, NYC
2022 Osmosis, Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Object II Body Studies, La Mama Galleria Window Gallery, NYC
2021 Flux Factory Artists from New York, Art Quarter Budapest, Hungary
2021 Day Job, Governors Island Colonels Row 404A, NYC
2021 A Spirit of Disruption, SFAI Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2020 LOSS - A Virtual Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Art Workers Lab, PS 122 Gallery, NYC
2019 RUB – Now Wave and Graphic Activism, Flux Factory, LIC, NY
2019 Body in Exile: Vol. 1, Geary Contemporary, NYC
2018 Maureen Catbagan, Eliane Lima, Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, Empirical Nonsense, NYC
2018 MUAW!: Museum Union Art Workers’ Show, El Barrio Artspace PS109, NYC
2017 Self-Storage, Flux Factory, LIC, NY
2015 No Humans Involved, with Yams Collective, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2015 Art in the Dark, Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, PA
2014 Post Speculation, with Yams Collective, P! Gallery, NYC
2014 Whitney Biennial, with Yams Collective, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
2014 Games People Play, Temporary Agency/Chashama, Brooklyn, NY
2010 SWIPE!, 25 CPW Gallery, NYC
2008 Ides of March, ABC No Rio, NYC
2008 The Map Show, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
2006 Rotativo, Galería de Artes Visuales h-10, Valparaiso, Chile
2006 Alimatuan: The Emerging Artist as American Filipino, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
2006 Fresh, Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2025 Solidarities Beyond Care, with Umber Majeed, The Tomorrow Archive Vol. 4, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Buklod Forum, with Abang-guard, Eskinita Art Farm, Batangas, Philippines
2024 Museo de Pintados, with Abang-guard, Topaz Arts, Queens, NY
2023 Handle with Care, with Abang-guard, 601 Artspace, NYC
2023 Abang-guard Street Museum, DUMBO Art, NY
2022 PUSH / PULL, with Wren Noble, ARoS Public Atelier, Aarhus, Denmark
2022 Artists on Artworks: Abang-guard, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
2021 Enduring Apocalypse – America is in the Heart, Abrons Art Center Amphitheater, NYC
2021 Object II Body Studies, with IV Castellanos, ARoS Public Atelier, Aarhus, Denmark
2021 Bahay-Kubo, with Abang-guard, Governors Island, NYC
2020 Manifesto Session 3: Abang-guard: MW Participatory Performance, PS 122 Gallery, NYC
2019 Flux Takeover! – Daydreamers Manifestation Meditation, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
2019 The Pisces Right, Institut for (X), Aarhus, Denmark
2018 Abang-guard Work Habits, ARoS Public Atelier, Aarhus, Denmark
2016 Bloodflames, performance, Liberia! - Central Contemporánea, Bogota, Columbia
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2026 Residency – Residency Unlimited at Governors Island - Alumni
2025 Residency – Pollinator.coop
2025 Grant - Queens Arts Fund: Arts Access Grant
2025 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant
2025 Grant - New York Council on the Arts Support for Artists
2024 Asia Art Archive in America Leadership Camp IV: “Vaguely Asian”
2024 Grant and Residency - QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists
2023 Residency - Six Foot Platform, DUMBO Arts, NY
2023 Residency Unlimited NYC-Based Artist Residency, NYC
2022 Residency - ARoS Public Atelier with Flux Factory, Aarhus, Denmark
2021 Residency - Governors Island with Flux Factory, NY
2021 Grant - New York Foundation for the Arts - City Artist Corps
2021 Residency – Art Quarter Budapest with Flux Factory, Hungary
2020 Grant - Critical Minded for Cultural Critics
2018 Residency - ARoS Public Atelier with Flux Factory, Aarhus, Denmark
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2023 Experimental Loop, screening of Abang-guard Work Habits, PTM Contemporary, NYC
2021 Performance is Alive, screening of Object II Body Studies, Satellite Art Show for Art Basel and Arts Week, Miami, FL
2021 Three Turns, screening of Abang-guard Work Habits, SFAI Tower, San Francisco, CA
2019 Daydreamers Manifestation, screening of Abang-guard Work Habits, UP Vargas Museum, Quezon City, Philippines
2019 Mother-Tongue Karaoke, screening of Joe Bataan: Ordinary Guy, Laundromat Project at Sisters Uptown Bookstore and Cultural Center, NYC
2018 Halo-Halo, screening of Abang-guard Work Habits, Bliss- on-Bliss Art Projects, Queens, NY
2018 Banned: Otherness as Aesthetic, screening of Abang-guard Work Habits, ARoS Public Atelier, Aarhus, Denmark
2018 Love is the only true act of resistance: films from QTPOC, screening of Juicy Fruit, Genderhouse Festival-Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
2017 Cinema Flux: Tongue-Tied, screening of Joe’s Corner, Flux Factory, LIC, NY
2015 Film Night by Critical Projections, screening of Crush: Livingroom, Le Petit Versailles Garden, NYC
2007 To the Hills, screening of Joe’s Corner, Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Beauty Talk & Monsters, screening of Joe’s Corner, Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, NYC
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS AND LECTURES
2025 Preserving Community Histories Panel Discussion, Queens Museum
2025 Makibaka, International Arrivals podcast, NYC
2025 Makibaka Presentation, Asian Art Archive in America, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Museum of Little Manilas, UP Vargas Museum, Quezon City, Philippines
2024 Buklod 2024: Forum on Art as Social Engagement, panelist, Eskinita Art Farm, Batangas, Philippines
2023 Art of the Guardians, panelist, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries
2022 Art of the Guardians Panel Discussion, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2021 Artist Talk with Sholeh Asgary, Real Time & Space, Oakland, CA
2021 Shifting Sights/Sites: Re-imagining the Body and Place, Center for Book Arts, NYC
2020 Manifesto Session 3: Abang-guard: MW Participatory Performance, PS 122 Gallery, NYC
2019 Act Up, Sound Out, screening and talk, Flux Factory, LIC, NY
2018 Flux Factory Artist Talk, guest speaker, ARoS Public Salon, Aarhus, Denmark
2014 Art and Social Justice Case Study - YAMS Collective, panelist, The Vera List Center in New School, NYC
2014 The Difference and Media Project (with Dr. Ann Seaton), guest speaker, Bard College, Annandale-On- Hudson, NY
2014 Hyperallergic ArtTalk: HowDoYouSayYaminAfrican? Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Asian American Arts Alliance, guest speaker, NYC
PUBLICATIONS AND ESSAYS
2021 Get Lifted! The Art of the Ecstatic, co-written with Amber Jamilla Musser, brooklynrail.org, September 2021
2020 Forever Sidepiece – A Molting, co-written with Amber Jamilla Musser, asapjournal.com, February 10
2019 A Chromatic Presence: Barbara Hammer and “What You Are Not Supposed to Look At”, co-written with Amber Jamilla Musser,
2019 Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, tandfonline.com, October 17
2019 ATM: Abang-guard Tactical Museum, zine, September 20
2019 Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know, co-written with Amber Jamilla Musser, brooklynrail.org, July-Aug
2019 Lorna Simpson: Darkening, co-written with Amber Jamilla Musser, brooklynrail.org, June
2019 Yukultji Napangati, co-written with Amber Jamilla Musser, brooklynrail.org, March 7
2018 PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince, co-written with Amber Jamilla Musser, brooklynrail.org, October 3
2018 TRACEY MOFFATT: Vigils and Travellers, co-written with Amber Jamilla Musser, brooklynrail.org, July 11
2017 ZAPT (Zones of Art Practice and Theory), zine, September
2017 Invisible Sites, zine, May