G E D
MERINO
Ged Merino
Solo Shows /Art Fairs/ Biënnales/ Collaborative projects
2022 "Algún día todo esto tendrá sentido" (Someday this will all
Make sense) Alief Art House Houston Texas
2021 "Algún día todo esto tendrá sentido" (Someday this will all
Make sense) Maleza Proyectos, Bogota, Colombia
"Algún día todo esto tendrá sentido" (Someday this will all
Make sense) Bliss on Bliss Art Projects NY, made possible
With a grant from NYFA CAC
"Algún día todo esto tendrá sentido" (Someday this will all
Make sense) Bliss on Bliss Art Projects NY, made possible
With a grant from the Queens Council on the Arts
"Algún día todo esto tendrá sentido" (Someday this will all
Make sense) The Drawing Room Contemporary Art, Manila
Art Moment / Drawing Room Contemporary Art, Jakarta,
Indonesia
Mango Art Festival / Drawing Room Contemporary Art, Bowen
Hall Bangkok, Thailand
2020 "Algún día todo esto tendrá sentido" (Someday this will all
Make sense) Bliss on Bliss Art Projects Bogota
Alt Philippines 2020 / The Drawing Room, SM Aura
2019 “The Hybridity and Dynamism of the Philippine Contemporary
Art / Seoul Korea
“Kuwentong Kutsero” /Museo De Intramuros, Manila
Philippines
“Stitching Boundaries” The GedAze Project /Bliss on Bliss Art
Projects / Sunnyside NY made possib;e with a grant from the
Queens Council on the Arts
“Stitching Boundaries” The GedAze Project Yant Art Space.
Forest Hills, NY, made possible wth a grant from QCA QAF
“KANLUGAN” (SHELTER) The Ged/Aze Project
National Commission on Culture and the Arts /Philippines
2018 “Selecting Memory” The Drawing Room Contemporary
Art
“Imaginarium” The GedAze Project”/ Singapore Art Museum
“Stem” The GedAze Project / BenCab Museum Baguio City
2017 “Open Threads” The GedAze Project / Topaz Arts NY
“Prelude” The GedAze Project / TDR Escolta
“Ripples and Layers” The GedAze Project /Fundación Sanso
Manila, Philippines
“Existence” The GedAze Project / UP Vargas Museum PH.
“Illuminati” / The GedAze Project / ArtFair PH.
The Drawing Room Contemporary
2016 Transitional Objects / The Drawing Room Contemporary Art
Manila
“Sound in Our Head” The GedAze Project/Bliss on Bliss Art
Projects NY,NY
Sound in Her Head/ The GedAze Project /Spare Room Project
The Drawing Room Contemporary Art
2015 CIGE Art Fair / Beijing China
Southeast Asia Art Platform / Artstage Singapore
2014 Sueños Recurrentes/ Galeria Expreso del Arte Bogotá
Colombia
Metamorphosis / The Drawing Room Gallery, Makati, Phil.
Beneath the Surface, Structures and Scratches / CCP Manila,
Philippines
2012 Prints and Paintings / Bliss on Bliss Art Projects NY
2006 New Works, New York / Avellana Gallery, Philippines
2005 Recent Works MONO-Prints / Avellana Gallery, Philippines
1988 New Works / Philippine Consulate, NY, NY.
1987 Helena Benitez Hall, PWU Fine Arts Gallery, Philippines
Selected Group Shows
2022 “News” / Thombayan, Manila Philippines
“Transnational Movement” Venice Italy
“Synthetic Condition” / UP Vargas Museum , Philippines
“The Hem of a Long Converstion” The Drawing Room, Manila
2021 “Threads” Bogota ed. / Bliss on Bliss Art Projects, Sunnyside NY
“Threads” Bogota ed. / Topaz Arts , Woodside, NY
“Threads” NY ed. / Flux Factory LIC NY
“Threads” Bogota ed. / Maleza Proyectos Bogota, Colombia
2019 “The Hybridity and Dynamism of The Philippine Contemporary Art
Insa Art Space, Seoul Korea
Manila Acapulco Connection/ Zhou B Art Center Chicago
2018 Tumba Tumba/ UP Vargas Museum Philippines
“Practice from the Peripheries – Memo-Random” Art Informal
2016 Common Thread / The Drawing Room Contemporary Art
Paper and Layers / Cultural Center of The Philippines
“Case Studies” Found Bound Rebound / Topaz Arts NY, NY
2014 Promdi-Archipelago ACAW 10ed. / Bliss on Bliss Art Projects
NY, NY
2013 Eco-Logic /Las Vegas Center for Contemporary Arts
2012 In This Place We Live 2/ M55 Art Gallery LIC NY
NYFA Bootstrap Festival /Clemente Soto Velez NY
Conversations with Mars/Trans-Glocal /Bliss on Bliss Art
Projects NY
2011 In This Place We Live/ M55 Gallery LIC NY
Eye of the Beholder / LICA LIC, NY
2010 VIA MAIL / Capitana Gallery, Philippines
LEAP /La Mama Galeria , NY,NY
2009 A Night of 1001 Prints / M55 Art Gallery LIC, NY.
Return to Paradise / ARIAS Artspace, Makati, Philippines
When you say nothing at all / ARIAS Artspace, Makati,
2005 Manila to Williamsburg / Goliath Space Brooklyn NY
2002 Mono-Print / Miriam Perlman Gallery. Chicago IL.
2001 A is for Abstract La MAMA Galleria, NY
2000 Printmakers show / The Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn NY.
1997 At the edge.... / Cendrillon, NY, NY
1995 Successful Series / Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago IL.
1992 Continuing an Idea / Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1991 Repeated Surfaces / Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1989 Applied Surfaces / Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago IL.
Developing an Idea / Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1987 ASEAN Preview / Kulay- Diwa Gallery, Philippines
5th ASEAN Youth / National Museum, Singapore
MALVAR Artists / Museum of Baguio, Philippines
1986 Filipino Contemporary Artists / Ayala Museum, Philippines
Awards, Grants and Residencies
2021 NYFA CAC Grantee
Queens Council on The Arts QAF Grantees
To create new work
2019 Queens Council on The Arts QAF Grantees The GedAze Project
To create new work
Museo de Intramuros , Manila Philippines, AIR
2017 Topaz Arts, NY , The GedAze Project residency to create new work
1991 Best in Show / Spirit of New Jersey, JC, NJ.
1988 Jackson Pollock Memorial Scholarship/Art Students League
NY
1987 Top Five/ ASEAN Youth Painting Delegation Singapore
Education
1990 Art Students League, NY, NY
1987 PWU School of Fine Arts, Philippines
Gallery Representation Past and Current
The Drawing Room Contemporary Art, Manila Philippines
Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago
Multiple Impressions, NY
Turning Art.com , MA
Artist Statement
I collect things, discarded intentionally or incidentally, and my migratory history includes a movement of physical things. Gathered for the creation of new objects. Alluding to peculiar periods of things when their “original” function for which they are constructed for is no longer such. Rather, they are reconfigured to suit a new design amongst many permutations.
Thus, this process of constant transformation, inspired by recycling practices, which does not seek a single destination, can also be understood as an analogy of my artistic career in continuous roaming between the two extremes of the Pacific Ocean. My identity is based not so much on root (root, or origin in the Philippines), but “enroute” (route, or their roaming paths) The node in this network of material affinities across the years is the nexus between Manila, Bogota, and New York. In my ambivalent state as I shuttle between cities, absorbing energy and the visual stimulation each city emits yet on the other hand feels a sense of displacement.”
in a process based on a cycle of emergencies, existences, and fading, in which a piece of art is nothing more than an expression of impermanence. in a process based on a cycle of emergencies, existences, and fading, in which a piece of art is nothing more than an expression of impermanence.
weaving my biography with my art history through a material that threads through seemingly separate, even disparate, worlds, as if archiving sentimentality. A transposition of experiences made possible by migration and settlement.
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