Maureen Catbagan is a Pilipinx-American, multi-media artist based in New York whose work engages social collectivity and explores the intersections of immigration, labor, and visibility. Catbagan received their BFA from SUNY-Binghamton University and MFA from CUNY-The City College. They have collaborated with Flux Factory, the Yams Collective, and Abang-guard with artist Jevijoe Vitug.
Recent exhibitions include “Invisible Hands” at 601 Artspace, New York, NY (2023); “in pieces…” at PS122 Gallery, New York, NY (2023); “Invisible Bodies” at HUB-Robeson Galleries in Pennsylvania State University (2023); and “Lights, Tunnels, Passages, & Shadows” solo exhibition at The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (2021). Their individual and collaborative works have been exhibited, screened, and/or performed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Abrons Art Center, Socrates Park, Whitney Museum of American Art, ABC No Rio, Empirical Nonsense, P! Gallery (all in NYC), Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Liberia – Central Contemporánea (Bogota, Columbia), and The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii).
Catbagan has been awarded residencies with Abang-guard at Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn, NY), and The Six-Foot Platform at DUMBO Art (Brooklyn, NY), and with Flux Factory at Governors Island (NYC), ARoS Museum Public Atelier (Aarhus, Denmark), and Art Quarter Budapest (Hungary). Fellowships and grants include 2024-25 Queens Museum-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, 2021 NYFA-City Artists Corps Grant, and 2020 Critical Minded for Cultural Critics Grant.
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