EDUCATION
2002-05 MFA Mixed-Media, The City College – CUNY, NYC
1993-98 BFA Painting, Binghamton University – SUNY, Binghamton, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Lights, Tunnels, Passages, & Shadows, Center for Book Arts, NYC
2007 Parallel Time, solo show, Lab Gallery at Roger Smith Arts, NYC
2006 I Dream of Noah’s Ark and the Graffiti Rosetta Stones, solo show, The Kimmel Center at NYU, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Invisible Bodies, HUB-Robeson Galleries, Pennsylvania State University, PA
2023 More Than Lumpia, Epiphany Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2023 Artists Formerly Known as Prints, Governors Island Colonels Row 404A, NYC
2023 Invisible Hands, 601 Artspace, NYC
2023 in pieces…, PS 122 Gallery, NYC
2023 Continuation: A Tribute to Colin Chase, Compton-Goethals 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 Every Woman Biennial, Superchief Gallery NFT, NYC and Copeland Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021 Day Job, Governors Island Colonels Row 404, NYC
2021 A Spirit of Disruption, with Abang-guard, 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 Every Woman Biennial, La Mama Galleria, NYC
2019 RUB – Now Wave and Graphic Activism, Flux Factory, LIC, NY
2019 Body in Exile: Vol. 1, with Abang-guard, 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, with Abang-guard/Bliss on Bliss Art Projects/La Guardia, Flux Factory, LIC, NY
2017 The Greatest Love of All: Whitney Houston Biennial, Chashama SOHO, NYC
2015 Art in the Dark, Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, PA
2015 No Humans Involved, with YAMS Collective, Kunstinstituut Melly , Rotterdam, Netherlands
2014 Post Speculation, with YAMS Collective, P! Gallery, NYC
2014 Whitney Biennial, with YAMS Collective, Whitney Museum, 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
2008 The Measure of a Few Notes, Windows/PSII Gallery, LIC, 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
2006 DUMBA Collective, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Translations: Dialogues on Life, Remote Gallery, NYC
2003 One-Minute Distractions, Transient Gallery, NYC
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2023 Handle with Care, with Aban-guard, 601 Artspace, NYC
2023 Abang-guard Street Museum, DUMBO Art, NY
2022 PUSH / PULL, with Abdul Dube, Makoto Chill Okubo, and Wren Noble, ARoS Public Atelier, Aarhus, Denmark
2022 Abang-guard: Life Drawing, Working Class, Governors Island Colonels Row 404A, NYC
2022 Artists on Artworks: Abang-guard, with Louisa Lam, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
2021 Sympoietica, solo performance, Governors Island Colonels Row 404A, NYC
2021 Enduring Apocalypse, with Abang-guard, 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 Abang-guard Museum of Secret Talent, Flux Factory, LIC, NY
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 ATM: Abang-guard x ARoS Tactical Museum, ARoS Public Atelier, Aarhus, Denmark
2019 The Pisces Right, performance with Kalon Hayward, Marta Masternak, Sholeh Asgary, and Maya Seuss, Institut for (X), Aarhus, Denmark
2018 Abang-guard Work Habits, ARoS Public Atelier, Aarhus, Denmark
2016 Bloodflames, performance, Liberia! - Central Contemporánea, Bogota, Columbia
2003 Yellow Brick Road, performance, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Residency – Six Foot Platform, DUMBO, NY
2023 Residency - RU New York-Based Artists
2022 Residency – ARoS Public Atelier with Flux Factory, Aarhus, Denmark
2021 Residency – Governors Island with Flux Factory, NYC
2021 Grant - City Artist Corps - New York Foundation for the Arts
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
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
2022 Perspectives: Asian American Modernism with Abang-guard, metmuseum.org, June 9
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