Education
2015 MFA, Photography, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, TX
2011 BFA, Fibers, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
Awards, Honors, and Grants
2021 Best of St. Louis 2021: Best Activist, Riverfront Times
2018 Mock Grant Review Winner, Midwest Artist Project Services (MAPS)
2017 Convening Scholarship, Common Field
2016 G. Douglas Byers Memorial Fellowship, Signal Fire
2015 Jones Grant, SMU Meadows School of the Arts
2014 Friends of Taos Scholarship, SMU-in-Taos
2013 Full-tuition Graduate Fellowship, SMU Meadows School of the Arts
2011 National Conference of Undergraduate Research Travel Grant, Truman State University
2010 Hearst Fine Arts Scholarship, Truman State University
Residencies
2022 ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (May 14-28, 2022)
2019 Decelerator Residency, The Strange Foundation, West Shokan, NY (October 29-November 5)
2017 ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI (August 3-16)
2016 Wide Open Studios: Unwalking Lewis and Clark, Signal Fire (July 24 – August 20)
2012 Darkroom Artist-in-Residence, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO (August 1 – December 31)
Exhibitions
2024 Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives, organized by Moving Stories, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
2022 Counter/Narratives: (Re)presenting Race & Ethnicity, Washington University Olin Library, curated by Geoff Ward and Jessi Cerutti, St. Louis, MO
2021 Sowing Agency: Seeding the Future for Environmental Justice, Asian American Women Artists Association, San Francisco, CA
2019 Chicago Art Book Fair, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago, IL
2019 St. Louis Small Press Expo, St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, MO
2019 Filipino American Artist Directory Pop-Up Exhibition (organizer), Flood Plain Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2018 Chicago Art Book Fair, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago, IL
2018 Nights not made for crowds, curated by Ann Meisinger, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
2018 Counter Movements, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO (solo)
2017 Burnt Rice, curated by Pamela Ybañez, Wailoa Arts & Cultural Center, Hilo, HI
2016 Into the Wilderness, curated by Kerri Rosenstein, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, OR
2016 4th SPE Combined Women's/Multicultural/LGBTQ Caucus Juried Exhibition, juried by Aline Smithson, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK (catalog)
2015 RESISTANCE, curated by Pamela Ybañez, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
2015 AMoA Biennial 600: Sculpture, juried by Leigh Arnold, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
2015 Rising Eyes of Texas 2015, juried by Shea Little, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX
2015 14th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, juried by April Watson, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX (catalog)
2014 500X Expo, juried by Alison Hearst, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 Shift, St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, MO (solo)
2012 The Unreal, juried by Ken Rosenthal, The Kiernan Gallery, online (catalog)
Bibliography
2024 Gamalinda, Eric. “A Closer Look at the Invisible Filipino: Two Fil-Am Artists on Commemorating the 1904 World’s Fair,” Rappler, May 4, 2024.
2024 Budds, Diana. “Portable Landmark,” New York Review of Architecture, March 13, 2024.
2023 Madarang, Catalina Ricci S., “Historical site caretaker rejects apology of Smithsonian head after racial brain collection exposé,” Interaksyon, August 29, 2023.
2023 Claire Healy and Nicole Dungca, former and current reporters at U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, and the Miami Herald, with illustrator Ren Galeno, stole, exploited, and sold my work and personal research. May they never forget how they abused my trust.
2023 San Jose, Christian, “Permanent historical marker to commemorate Philippine Village at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair in Missouri,” Inquirer.net, July 26, 2023.
2021 Tanglao, Leezel, “From the Bay to the Bayou: 10 places that are steeped in Filipino American history,” The Points Guy, October 6, 2021.
2021 Wicentowski, Danny, “The World’s Fair and the Lost Dead of St. Louis’ Human Zoo,” Riverfront Times, September 8, 2021.
2021 Dahl, Amanda, “The Metro Area Initiatives Currently Examining the History of Racial Inequity in St. Louis,” Ladue News, August 2, 2021.
2021 Cattel, Megan, “1904 World’s Fair Revised: One Artist Memorializes Filipino and Indigenous People,” St. Louis Public Radio, May 16, 2021.
2020 Caña, Paul Jean, “Not in the Philippines: 22 Places Named Manila Around the World,” Esquire Philippines, December 22, 2020.
2019 Goldsby, Amelia, “The Filipino American Artist Directory,” All the Art: The Visual Arts Quarterly of St. Louis (Winter 2019/20): 13.
2018 Harwood, Amy and Daniela Naomi Molnar (eds.), Leaf Litter #7: Unwalking the West, 2018. 32.
2018 Nievera-Lozano, Melissa Ann and Anthony Abulencia Santa Ana (eds.), The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader. San Francisco: Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2018.
2018 Joseph O. Legaspi (ed.), "Philippine-American Lit," World Literature Today (March-April 2018): 47.
2018 Jen Rickard Blair, "Migration, Home, and History through the Eyes of Philippine-American Artists," World Literature Today: The Once Over, February 26, 2018.
2016 Manifest Gallery, International Photography Annual 4. Cincinnati: Manifest Press, 2016. 88.
Talks and Other Professional Experience
2024 Panel talk, “Reframing and Reclaiming: A Vital Conversation on Fil-Am History and Artistry,” Pakaraguian Kulintang Ensemble, Los Angeles, CA, March 26.
2024 Artist talk, “At Home in the Philippine Village,” Bard Graduate Center, New York City, NY, March 13.
2023 Guest speaker for Urban Archaeology with Michael Allen, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, November 15.
2023 Artist talk, National Building Arts Center Summer Lecture Series, Sauget, Illinois, June 28.
2023 Artist talk (Zoom), Pacific Northwest College of Art, April 24.
2022 Artist-in-Residence Roundtable, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 26.
2018 Keynote talk, Pilipinx American Library Artist Retreat at Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, August 11.
2018 Visiting Artist, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, January 22-23.
2016 Visiting Artist, St. Edward's University, Austin, TX, October 25.
2016 Artist talk, "Post-Graduation Life Strategies," Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, October 19.
2013-2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, TX
2013 Artist talk, St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, MO, February 7.
2011-2012 Artist/Production Assistant, SKIF International, St. Louis, MO
2009-2011 Fibers Studio/Teaching Assistant, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO