Jose LEGASPI JOSE LEGASPI Born 1959 Manila, The Philippines Lives and works in Manila, The Philippines Solo exhibitions* 2001 ‘Phlegm’, Art in General, New York, USA 2000 ‘Aberrations in Monochrome’, Hiraya Gallery, Manila 1999 ‘Nightmare Obsession’, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong ‘Nausea’, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; The Philippines (performance) 1998 ‘Knives’, Hiraya Gallery, Manila 1997 ‘Monkey Head’, Studio 10, San Francisco, USA (performance) ‘FlipSide’, Club 64, Central, Hong Kong 1996 Performance at the home of Shirley Nakao, Godzilla West Group, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, USA ‘Whitey’, ProArts Gallery, San Francisco, USA (performance) 1994 ‘The Feast’, San Francisco Art Institute, USA (performance) 1992 ‘Kazushi Kawashima and Other Desolate Gods’, Cultural Center of The Philippines ‘Profane Corpse’, Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan, Australia Club Dredd, Quezon City (performance) 1990 ‘Diary of a Dead Man’, ArtLab, Manila 1989 ‘My Dearest Kazushi’, Kulay Diwa Art Gallery, Paranaque 1982 ‘Dissertation on Phantasmagoric Biology’, Gallery Upstairs, Makati City 1980 ‘Plantigraphs’, Museum Hallway, Cultural Center of The Philippines Selected group exhibitions* 2002 ‘36 Ideas from Southeast Asia’, Museum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisberg, Germany; Hungary 2001 ‘From the Sea of Trees’, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Japan 2000 ‘El Poder de Narar (The Power of Narration)’, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain ‘Faith and the City’, Earl Lu Gallery, Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore; Malaysia ‘Confinement, Release and Exuberance’, Tramhuis 1.2.3., Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1999 ‘Diobok-Obok Continuities and Contingencies in South East Asian Art’, Singapore Art Museum ‘A Matter of Art’, Philippine International Convention Center, Manila ‘Archetypes’, Tramhuis 1.2.3., Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1997 ‘Re-Forms’, Alliance Française de Manille, Makati City ‘Across Borders, Against AIDS’, Hiraya Gallery, Manila 1995 ‘Reframing a Heritage’, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA 1993 ‘Kayumanggi Presence ‘93’, Academy Art Center at Linekona, Hawaii, USA 1992 ‘My Life in the Resistance’, ArtLab, Manila ‘ArtLab Road Tour’, Galeria de las Islas, Manila ’14 Nautical Miles’, Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan, Australia ‘The UNESCO Poetry Event’, Café Orfeo, Manila Qualifications, grants & awards* 2001 Artist-in-residence, Art In General, New York, USA 1986 Graduate Program, College of Fine Arts, University of The Philippines, Quezon City 1983 MSc (Biological Science), University of Santo Tomas, Manila 1979 BSc (Zoology), University of Santo Tomas, Manila Collections Private collections * All The Philippines unless otherwise stated Selected bibliography Carroll, Alison. ‘Parallels: nationalism in Filipino, Indonesian and Australian art’. Art and AsiaPacific, vol.1, no.1, March 1993, pp.38–44. Cheng, Maria. ‘Where sadism rules: Jose Legaspi explores the fascination of shock’. Asiaweek.com, 13 August 1999, viewed 9 July 2002. www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/99/0813/feat4.html Labrador, Ana P. ‘Eating their words: a Filipino narrative’. Art AsiaPacific, no.29, 2001, pp.48–55. Marbella, Wilfred. ‘The knives of Jose Legaspi’. Transit: a Quarterly of Art Discussion, vol.1, no.1, January–April 1999, pp.21–5. Pineda, Roselle. ‘Of gay and desolate gods: the art of Jose Legaspi’. Pananaw: Philippine Journal of Visual Arts, vol.2, 1998, pp.72–5. Artists and Works Print friendly version