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Manuel Ocampo
An Altar To Aesthetic Misfortune, 2010
huile sur toile, 190 x 200 cm
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1965 Born in Quezon City, Philippines. Lives and works in the Philippines.
Education
1985 California State University, Bakersfield
1984 University of the Philippines, Quezon City
Selected solo exhibitions
2010 Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York
An Exhibition of Collaborations with 7 Imaginary Friends Showing a Variety of Painterly Mishaps Flaunted as Majestic Embellishments, Nosbaum & Reding - Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2009 The Reincarnation of Modernism in Hellish Form, Galerie Bongout, Berlin, Germany
Monuments to the Institutional Critique of Myself, Pablo Fort, Manila, Philippines
She has a Hot Ass: The Demystification of Art and its incorporation into the Practice of Everyday Life Could Only be Achieved Through the Deliberate Lowering of Standards, The Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
Monument to the Aesthetisization of Desublimated Fantasies Rendered Impotent by Unredeemable Gestures, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
Painting as an Attempt to Memorialize Reality’s Triumph over Art, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Finale Art Fair, Manila, Philippines
Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain
2007 Guided by Sausage, Nosbaum & Reding - Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Guided by Sausage, Le (9) bis, Saint-Etienne, France
Kitsch Recovery Program, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2006 En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza sin Alcohol (with Curro Gonzalez), Galeria adhoc, Vigo, Spain
Down with Reality, Galerie Jesco Von Puttkamer, Berlin, Germany
Kitsch Recovery Program: An Image is Just a Pathetic Attempt to do Justice to a Picture, Nosbaum & Reding - Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
No System Can Give the Masses the Proper Social Graces (with Damien Deroubaix), Haptic at La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York, USA
Down with Reality, Galerie Jesco von Puttkamer, Berlin, Germany
2005 Mumu Territorium, Artcenter Megamall, Mandaluyong Metro Manila, Philippines
The Holocaustic Spackle in the Murals of the Quixotic Inseminators, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles
Bastards of Misrepresentation, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
New Works, LAC, Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France
2004 Moral Stories: Fuck the Third World, Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain
Bastards, Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt, Germany
Finale Art File, Mega Mall, Mandaluyong, Philippines
Miserable Intentions (with Gaston Damag), Art Contemporain – Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
2003 Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
Wunderkammer, Gesellschaft Für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg (Society for Contemporary Art Augsburg), Germany
Lee Almighty, Mag:net Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2002 An All Out Attempt at Transcendence, Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt, Germany
Comprehensible Only to a Few Initiates, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
The Inadequacy of the Struggle Against the Inadequacy of the Struggle, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2001 Presenting the Undisclosed System of References in the Loophole of Misunderstanding, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Free Aesthetic Pleasure Now!, Babilonia 1808, Berkeley, California
2000 Those Long Dormant Pimples of Inattention Counterattacking the Hyper-Convoluted Dramas of the Gaze, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Galerie Baerbel Grasslin, Frankfurt
Those Long Dormant Pimples of Inattention Meandering through the Cranium Arcade of Pitiless Logic Swastikating between Love and Hate, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
The Stream of Transcendent Object-Making Consciously Working towards the Goal, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt
1999 The Nature of Culture - Manuel Ocampo/Gaston Damag. Interventions in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville (catalogue)
The Inversion of the Ideal: Navigating the Landscape of Intestinal Muck, Swastikating between Love and Hate, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (catalogue)
1998 To Infinity and Beyond: Presenting the Unpresentable - The Sublime or the Lack Thereof, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Yo Tambien Soy Pintura, El Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain (catalogue)
Why Must I Care For a Girl Who Always Scratches Wherever She Itches: 1-1/2 Centuries of Modern Art ,Twelve Step Program, Delfina, London; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona (catalogue)
Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
1997 Heridas de la Lengua, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California (catalogue)
Hacer Pintura Es Hacer Patria, Galeria OMR, Mexico City (catalogue)
1996 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1995 Ciocca Raffaelli Arte Contemporaneo, Milan (catalogue)
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
1994 Paraiso Abierto a Todos, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco
Stations of the Cross, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1993 New Paintings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries/Fred Hoffman, Beverly Hills, California
Manuel Ocampo, Galeria OMR, Mexico City
1992 Grupo de Gago, Weingart Center Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles
Matrix Berkeley 150, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley.par
1991 M.J.O., Jay Chiat residence, New York
Manuel Ocampo, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1990 Substancias Irritantes, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, California
1989 John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica
The Onyx Café, Los Angeles
1988 Lies, Falls Hopes, and Megalomania, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Reflexus Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Kenneth Anger´s cycle, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal
Entre chien et loup, Caroline Pagès Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 Problems with style, Green Papaya Art Project, Manila, Philippines
Magnet Gallery, Manila, Philippines
In the context of : La dégelée Rabelais, organised by FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, France :
Morts de rire, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Et tout pour les mange-tripes !,
Musée Pierre André Benoit & Espace de Rochebelle, Alès, France
A Thélème, Priape s’est cogné…,
CIRCA - La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France
2007 Rooms, Conversations, Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris
L’Explosition, Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
Messages Abroad, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
Kinky Sex, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Nosbaum & Reding at Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
2006 Five Stories High, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Wonder and Horror of the Human Head, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Painting Codes, Galeria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Di Monfalcone, Italy
2004 Birth - Sex - Death, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
La Alegria de mi Sueños, Seville Biennale, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea, Seville, Spain
2003 End of the Start, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
The Broken Mirror, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY, USA
2002 Extranjeros: Los Otros Artistas Españoles, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
Disarming Parables: Collection Highlights, San Jose Museum of Art, CA, USA
2001 49. Esposizione Internazionale, Plateau of Mankind, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Berlin Biennale II, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Les Chiens Andalous, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA (catalogue)
Vom Eindruck zum Ausdruck: Grässlin Collection (From Impression to Expression), Hamburg, Germany (catalogue)
Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Museum of Art, CA, USA
Circos Globulos: Selected Works from the Babilonia Wilner Collection, Babilonia 1808, Berkeley, CA, USA
2000 Salon, Delfina, London, UK
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA (catalogue)
Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millenium, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA (catalogue)
Partage d’Exotismes, 5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Sammlung Falckenberg (Falckenberg Collection), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
The Sensational Line, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
1999 Vestiges of War, 1899-1999: The Philippine-American War and Its Aftermath, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Gallery, New York University, NY, USA
Jardin de Eros, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina/Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain; Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway (catalogue)
Sensibilidade Apocaliptica, Festival Atlantico ‘99, Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue)
1998 At Home and Abroad: 21 Contemporary Filipino Artists, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA (catalogue)
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA (catalogue)
Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA (catalogue)
Cien Años Despues, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila; Puerto Rico; Havana, Cuba; Valencia, Spain (catalogue)
1997 American Stories-Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Arte Chido!, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City
Memories of Overdevelopment, Irvine Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, USA (catalogue)
Nu-Glu, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, USA
Past Time, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
Pervasive Referents, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, USA
Unmapping the Earth, ‘97 Kwangju Biennial, Korea (catalogue)
Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, USA
1996 Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, Italy (catalogue)
1995 Eye Tattooed America, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, USA
In the Light of Goya, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Post-Colonial California, San Francisco State University, USA
1994 Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, The Asia Society, New York, USA (catalogue)
Icastica, Galeria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (catalogue)
Jean-Michel Basquiat & Manuel Ocampo, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Manuel Ocampo & Don Ed Hardy, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, USA
Sacred and Profane, Studio Nosei, Rome, Italy
Unholy Wars, Postmasters, New York, USA
1993 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA (catalogue)
Drawing the Line Against Aids, 45th Venice Biennial at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
In Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Beuna Gardens, San Francisco, USA (catalogue)
Medialismo, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy (catalogue)
1992 Documenta IX, Documentahallen, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (catalogue)
1991 Individual Realities in the California Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Mike Bidlo, Manuel Ocampo, Andres Serrano, Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Awards
1998 Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny Program
1996 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts
1995-96 Rome Prize in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome
1995 ThePollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.par The Art Matters Foundation
Public Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain
Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, (CAAM) Canary Islands, Spain
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris, France
Museo Berado, Lissabon, Portugal
Selected Bibliography - Books & Catalogues
Manuel Ocampo, Bastards of Misrepresentation, Edicion Casia Asia, Barcelona, 2005
Art Now, 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium, Taschen, Cologne, 2002
Vitamin P, New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon, London, New York, 2002
Les Chiens Andalous, Track 16 Gallery/Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, California, 2001
Asian Collection 50, From the Collection of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 2000
The Nature of Culture-Manuel Ocampo/Gaston Damag. Interventions in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, 1999
The Inversion of the Ideal: Navigating the Landscape of Intestinal Muck, Swastikating between Love and Hate, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, 1999
Why Must I Care For a Girl Who Always Scratches Wherever She Itches: 1-1/2 Centuries of Modern Art, Twelve Step Program, Delfina, London; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, 1999
Yo Tambien Soy Pintura, Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain, 1998
Hacer Pintura es Hacer Patria, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, 1997
Heridas de la Lengua, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, 1997
Station to Station, Edizioni Programma, Cagliari, Italy, 1997
Virgin Destroyer: Manuel Ocampo, Hardy Marks Publications, Honolulu, 1994
Museum Publications
Lussier, Real, “Serie Projet 15: Manuel Ocampo”, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, 1995
Chagoya, Enrique, “Notes for a Nonlinear Interpretation of the Work of Manuel Ocampo”, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, 1994
Enriquez, Lucia, “Jean Michel Basquiat/Manuel Ocampo”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 1994
Rinder, Lawrence, “History and Retribution in the Art of Manuel Ocampo”, University Art Museum, Berkeley, May-June, 1992
Kent, Sarah, “Mike Bidlo, Manuel Ocampo, Andres Serrano,” Saatchi Collection, London, August, 1991 |
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