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CV

Con Cabrera
 

Born in Pampanga

Lives & works in Quezon City

concabrera@gmail.com

Education

 

2015 - Present MA in Art Studies

University of the Philippines, Diliman

 

1997 - 2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts

University of Santo Tomas, Manila

 

 

Experience

 

Instructor at the

Department of Art Studies

College of Arts and Letters

University of the Philippines Diliman

January to December 2023

Guest Curator

Visual Arts and Museum Division

Cultural Center of the Philippines

November 2023 to May 2024​

Editor and Project Curator for

Upskilling on Performance and Visual Arts Curation

Project by the Office of Christopher De Venecia

and the Cultural Center of the Philippines

April 2023

Participating Artist​ for

Textile Culture Net (TCN) online exhibition

organized by Centre for Heritage, Arts,

and Textile (CHAT)

July - August 2022

Participating Artist for

OCCURRENT Exhibition

Vargas Museum

September 3 to December 4, 2022

Co-Curator for Imelda Caijpe Endaya:

Pagtutol at Pag-Asa | Isang Retrospective

Main Gallery and Third Floor Hallways

Cultural Center of the Philippines

February 9 to March 28, 2019

Co-Curator for Kesen Art and Life Potluck Sharing,

Rikuzentaka Artist in Residence Program

Iwate, Japan

September 2017 to March 2018

Co-curator for Manila Biennale 2018, 

Open City Exhibition Program

 

July to November 2017

Project Coordinator (Philippines) for The Artist and

The Social Dreamer, Forecast Festival in Berlin

 

2014 to present

Independent Curator and Freelance Art Writer

 

June 2010 to present

Lecturer at Kalayaan College Fine Arts Program

in Quezon City

 

June 2012 to 2014

Freelance Art Director and Illustrator

 

2004 – 2012

Art Director for publishing and advertising companies

 

 

Residencies and Grants

Uncommon Pursuits

A Temporary School for Emergent Curators

in Southeast Asia

San Art

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2018

Short-term Residency

Paradise AIR

Matsudo, Tokyo, Japan 2017

Rikuzentakata Artist-in-Residence Program

Rikuzentaka City, Japan, 2017

 

Invitation Program for Next Generation Curators of Southeast Asia

Tokyo, Japan, 2014

 

HAO Summit Singapore

Singapore, 2012

 

Flyover 158-98B Japan-Philippine Exchange Program

Manila, 2012

Workshop Grant:

Curatorial Workshop Manila by the Independent Curators International

National Commission on Culture and the Arts, 2016

 

Exhibition Grant:

Run and Learn: New Curatorial Constellations

The Japan Foundation, 2014

Independent
Curatorial Projects

 

Norma Liongoren | Reading Between

the Lines (Co-Curated with Hannah Liongoren) for Art Fair Philippines 2023

Forms Without Vanishing Points: Diagrams for sensing and becoming (as Curatorial Consultant) at the Vargas Museum, 2023-2024

the surface of land and water

The Drawing Room Gallery for

Visayas Art Fair

Mandaue City, Cebu, 2022

The Hem of a Long Conversation 

The Drawing Room Gallery

Makati City, 2022

To give a moment a name

The Drawing Room Gallery

Makati City, 2019

Resetting the Clock

Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo,

Pasilyo Victorio Edades and

4th floor Atriums

Cultural Center of the Philippines

Pasay City, 2018

Resilient Paradise

Joshibi Art University Suginami Campus

Tokyo, Japan, 2017

 

White Noise

Vargas Museum

Quezon City, 2014

 

Never Again Martial Law

Palma Hall, UPD

Quezon City, 2012

 

Curved House

Blanc Gallery Compound

Mandaluyong, 2012

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

The Days are Long, The Years are Short

Yokota Elementary School

Rikuzentakata City, Japan, 2017

 

Feelings

The Drawing Room Gallery

Makati City, 2017

 

Retreat, Repeat

27F

Quezon City, 2016

 

Kasama

Bahay Tsinoy

Manila, 2011

Select Published Essays

"Archie Oclos: Conquering Urban

Walls for the Landless"

Purveyr Issue 5, 2018

“A Range of Mavericks: Creators

of Ideas and Actions”

Purveyr Issue 4, 2017

 

“Formation Through Envisioning and Artworld Public: 

Identifying Members as Citizens and the Artworld as Nation”

TrafficVolume 1, 2017

 

“Creators of Perception Re-Configuration”

Purveyr Issue 3, 2017

 

“Go with the flow”

SukiVol. XVIII Issue 2, 2015

 

“Concrete Reveries”

Flyover: Yokohamanila | Guide + Report, 2012

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