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EVENTS
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CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
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Fabricated Boundaries: Filipina American Textile & Fiber Artists
currated by Tifanny Hunt, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC 6 September - 6 December 2025Fabricated Boundaries: Filipina American Textile & Fiber Artists Artists: Pacita Abad, Mic Diño Boekelmann, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, and Patricia Orpilla Curator: Tiffany Lynn Hunt, PhD Discover the extraordinary work of... -
Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
Curated by Cecilia Alemani and Sabine Eckmann, Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St. Louis 12 September 2025 - 5 January 2026Making Their Mark brings together over eighty works by an intergenerational and international group of women artists represented in the San Francisco Bay Area–based Shah Garg Collection. Featuring a wide... -
Pacita Abad's Masks Paintings at the Tate's Artist and Society Room 1
curated by Alvin Li and Beatriz Cifuentes Feliciano, Twenty-Five Years of Tate Modern - Anniversary Highlights, London 9 May 2025 - 30 June 2026These quilted canvases celebrate global artistic traditions and Indigenous cultures through their bold colours and sculpted surfaces Pacita Abad's vibrant paintings and textile works combine many traditional art forms. These... -
Perpetual Motion Machines
Pilar Corrias Gallery, London 9 July - 20 September 2025Pilar Corrias presents Perpetual Motion Machines , a group exhibition featuring work by Pacita Abad , Loie Hollowell , Christina Quarles , Tschabalala Self and Mickalene Thomas . Taking as... -
Chronologies: Selection from the M Collection
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Dwelling, New Acquisitions
Curated by Veronica Roberts and Aleesa Pitcharmarn Alexander, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford 4 October 2024Dwelling: New Acquisitions showcases recent acquisitions to the Cantor Arts Center's collection and explores how these works expand our understanding of home. This exhibition highlights that home can be more...
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Cultural Cache Online: “Two Orphans” by Pacita Abad
With Tina Colayco, President of The M, Manila. Produced by CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division. -
RECENT PRESS
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RECENT EXHIBITIONS
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Pacita Abad: Philippine Painter
curated by Clarissa Chikiamko, The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Bonifacio Global City 28 November 2024 - 30 March 2025PACITA ABAD: PHILIPPINE PAINTER Curated by Clarissa Chikiamco, Curator at National Gallery Singapore 28 November 2024 -30 March 2025 This exhibition celebrates the late artist Pacita Abad (1946-2004) as a... -
Pacita Abad
The First Retrospective of Pacita Abad's Paintings, co-curated by Victoria Sung and Renée van der Avoird, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 9 October 2024 - 19 January 2025The exuberant and wide-ranging works of the late Philippine-born artist Pacita Abad make their Canadian debut as part of her first retrospective. This acclaimed exhibition includes more than 100 artworks... -
Pacita Abad at Art Basel Hong Kong Encounters Sector
Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor and Pio Abad, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre 28 - 30 March 2025Alexie Glass-Kantor: ‘There’s been a huge move to material practice and a real shift to recognizing Indigenous sovereignty.’ The first work visitors will see within ‘As The World Turns’, this... -
La Biennale di Venezia: 60th International Art Exhibition
Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere: Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Arsenale 20 April - 24 November 2024Statement by Adriano Pedrosa, Curator Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere The title of the 60th International Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is drawn from a series of works made...
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WATCH SHORT VIDEOS
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The Brodsky Center at Rutgers University: Three Decades, 1986-2017
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Interview with Mali Sananikone
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Pacita Abad: Spirited Faces
Narrated by Yvette Sitten January 24, 2003Produced by Yvette Sitten, the video chronicles the colorful artwork and Singapore studio house of Pacita Abad on 28 Temenggong Road, which were inspired by her travels. The Studio is...
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Pacita's Painted Bridge in Singapore
Photo: Ning de Guzman
