Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art

Kristoffer Ardena

KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA

1976/Philippines

Education

1997-2001                  Bachelor of Fine Arts (Major in Painting and Drawing)

Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California, USA

- 4 Year Full Tuition Presidential Art Scholarship

1996                       Printmaking: Serigraphy, Lithography, and Etching

                                Cercle Européen pour la Propagation des Arts (CEPA), Luxembourg, Luxembourg

                                                - Art Scholarship, Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg

Awards and Recognitions

2007                       - Production of public intervention, City Arts Council of Madrid

                                  for the Festival LA NOCHE EN BLANCO (LA NUIT BLANCHE)

- Production of public intervention, City of Huesca/Centro Cultural del Matadero,

                                  for the Festival Okuparte

                                - Production of public intervention, Festival Explum, Puerto Lumbreras, Spain

2006                       - Rome Prize, Spanish Academy in Rome

  Made possible thru: Union Latine Plastic Arts Awards

2005                       - Finalist, MADRID ABIERTO public art grant, Fundación Altaldis, Madrid, Spain

2002                       - Full Fellowship, Fundación Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain

1999                       - 2nd Prize, National Art Competition, Fra Angélico Foundation, Chicago, USA

1997                       - 4-year Full Tuition Presidential Scholarship, Academy of Art, San Francisco, USA

1996                       - Art Scholarship, Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg

1996                       - 1st Prize, Int’l Art Prize for Southeast Asia, Stifftung Missio, Aachen, Germany

1996                       - Art Fellowship, VEM, Wuppertal, Germany

1995                       - Art Grant, National Commission for Culture and the Arts

  to participate in an art workshop at Samba Likhaan Institute, Manila, Philippines

1995                       - Grant/Project Sponsorship to teach art to street children and battered

                       Women: Department of Social Welfare and Development,

                       Dumaguete, Ministry of Foreign Affrairs, Luxembourg,

  Bridderlech Delen (NGO, Luxembourg)

Solo Projects

2008                       - In Search of Lost Memory in Alicante, Centro 14, Alicante, Spain

                                - The Filipino Talent Show, Festival Explum, Puerto Lumbreras, Spain

2006                       - Viprens, Ca Revolta, Valencia, Spain

- Delicatessen, National Cultural Center of the Philippines,

   Manila, Philippines

Group Projects

2008                     - 3^rd Bucharest Biennale, Romania (forthcoming)

                                - CIRCUITOS (traveling exhibit)

                                                - Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid, Spain

                                                - Universidad de León Gallery, León, Spain

                                                - Universidad de Girona Gallery, Girona, Spain

                                                - Universidad de Vigo Gallery, Pontevedra, Spain

                                                - Fundación Colegio del Rey, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

2007                     - The Way We Work, DISPLAY:Art in the Public Sphere, Vienna, Austria

                                - (im)mortal love, Warsaw Biennial, Fundacja Supermarket Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland

                                - Big Deal, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

- LA NUIT BLANCHE (La Noche en Blanco), Madrid, Spain

- Endwise: Art, Time, Space Apocalypse, Current Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                                - V Bienal SIART, Museo Tambo Quirquincho, La Paz, Bolivia

- Urban Spaces Off, FOTO ARTE, Espaço Cultural Contemporáneo, Brasilia, Brazil

                                - IDA Y VUELTA Rome Prize Fellows 2005-2006

  Sala de Exposiciones Teatro Circo Price, Madrid, Spain

                                - Urban Spaces Off, 7th Documentary Photography Festival FOTOPUB,

                                  Novo Mesto, Eslovenia

                                - Urban Space Off, FOTORIO, Oi Futoro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

                                - Urban Spaces, New Life Shop Gallery, Berlin, Germany

                                - Le Soudage, Booze Cooperativa, Athens, Greece

                                - The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, Apexart, NY, USA

                                - Loyal Rooftops, Galerie Loyal, Kassel, Germany

- CLOSE UP: A Riesgo, Pasaguero, Mexico D.F.

                                - Every man is a curator, Moderna Galerija Ljubjana, Slovenia

               - Fingers and Codes: Contemporary Portraits, Eyedrum Art Gallery, Atlanta, USA

                             - Millions Taken Daily, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME, USA

                                - Public Art Festival Okuparte, Huesca, Spain

- Grizzly Proof, Flux Factory, New York, NY, USA

- Roma Ancora e’Roma, Academia de España en Roma, Italy

- Festival Explum, Puerto Lumbreras, Spain

- Hate to Leave my Studio, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea

- Memorie ri-trovate, Sala Uno, Rome, Italy

- Pathogeographies, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA

                                - Get Out of Jail Free, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Gallery,

                                  SF GLBT Center, San Francisco, California, USA

- Una tirada de dados, Sala de Exposiciones Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain

                                - IX Encuentros de Arte Contemporaneo, Museo Universidad de Alicante, Spain

2006                       - 4x6 Benefit Show, The Creative Center, NY, USA

-  Whodunit?, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada

-  Anonyme Zeichner 1, Bluetenweiss Raum fur Kunst, Berlin, Germany

- Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Gallery, NY, USA

- Terror?, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA

- San Sebastian 2006: Contemporary Icon, Galeria de Arte Cintalapa, Museo Na

  Bolom, Museo Antropologia Tuxtla Gutierrez, Amadador de los Hombre

  Illustres, Tres50 Espacio Cultural, Chiapas, Mexico (traveling exhibit)

- In Transition, Lanitis Foundation Contemporary Art Center, Limassol, Cyprus

- Terrortory, MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

                                - New Terrortory, PAK////T Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

-  Maverick Dogs, Booze Cooperativa Gallery, Athens, Greece  

- Embodiment: Gender Culture Action

  Fisk Loranger Art Gallery, University of Mercy Detroit, Detroit, USA

- Engendered Species, Gatov and Merlino Galleries,

  California State University in Long Beach, California, USA

- Engendered Species, The Advocate and Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, USA

- Version 06: Parallel Cities, Iron Side Studios 3636, Chicago, USA

2005                       - M.V.C. Lens Política, Myymala2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

-La voluntad radical, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico

- Contempong Pinoy, Kulay Diwa Galleries, Manila, Philippines

- Registros Imposibles, Sala de Exposiciones Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain

- Spring Show, Silos Gallery, Tarifa, Spain

2004                     - Centro Cultural Okendo, San Sebastian, Spain

- TILE PROJECT  (catalog)

                          Transcultural Exchange Organization

                        Venues: Azerbaijan State Arts Academy, Baku, Azerbijan; Hastahanatekija Mesudia, Kakuni, Bosnia and Heregovina; Hameenlinna’s Cultural Center, Verkatehdas, Finland; UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France; Bar of Modern Art, Berlin, Germany; Khyber Restaurant, Mumbai, India; University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel; Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, Guadalajara, Mexico; Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures, Wellington, New Zealand; Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines; Art Cafe, Bacau, Romania; Center for Visual Art at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; The Peace Museum, Seoul, South Korea; Museo Etnologico de Chinchon, Chinchon, Spain; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan; Artemis Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey; Pauline Shaw School, Boston, USA; Northside Preparatory School, Chicago, USA; Mercer Park, New York City, USA; The Peace Garden, Washington D.C., USA; Fine Arts Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

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Kulay-Diwa  is a venue for Philippines and Southeast Asian Contemporary Art. Inaugurated on February 7, 1987, Kulay-Diwa, is strategically located within a cluster of communities South of Manila.  It has five independent exhibition areas able to accommodate large-scale works and a garden ideal for programs, performances and sculpture installations.  The goals of the gallery are to discover and promote the works of young, talented but deserving Filipino Artists and to foster cultural interaction and exchanges with the local regions and other countries.

Kulay (Colour)

Diwa  (Spirit, Thought)

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