Biography
1965 Born in Quezon City, Philippines. Lives and works in the Philippines.
Education
1985
California State University, Bakersfield, CA, USA
1984
University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Delirium, Drawing Room, Manila, Philippines
System Update, Sampaquita Projects, Quezon City, Philippines
Of Cats and Mice, Drawing Room for Tokyo Gendai, Tokyo, Japan
2023
Cuadros Para Un Manicomio, VETA Galeria, Madrid, Spain
Potpourri for a Madhouse, Mamusa, Iloilo City, Philippines
2022
Terms and Conditions (with Maria Cruz and Gerry Tan), The Drawing Room, Makati, Philippines
Paintings the Lord Taught Us, Station Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Paintings the Lord Taught Me, La Mauvaise Reputation, Bordeaux, France
2021
Aesthetic of Discomfort, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Promdi, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
2020
Pandemia, Casa del Artista, Manila, Philippines
2019
Ideological Mash-Up/Remix, STPI Gallery, Singapore
New Works, The Drawing Room, Makati, Philippines
2018
Tortas Imperiales, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Yes, Sir/Ma'am! No,Sir/Ma'am! Right Away, Sir/Ma'am!, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, N.Y., USA
Couch Paintings for the Armchair Marxist, Galerie La Mauvaise Réputation, Bordeaux, France
2017
Hello! Belle Peinture: Thinking of the Beginning of the End of the Death of Painting, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Oeuvres: 1994-2016, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2016
The Corrections, Finale Art File, Makati, Philippines
Goya Vu par Ocampo, ARCO Artfair, Madrid, Spain
Sweating the Green Parrot Out, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Brown Dada, Drawing Room, ArtStage Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
Los Desastres de la Democracia, Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
Brown Dada, Drawing Room, Makati, Philippines
2015
Goya vu par Ocampo. La Junte des Philippines 1815-2015, Musée Goya, Castres,
France
Black nada, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The Devil Follows Me Day and Night Because He Is Afraid to Be Alone, The Drawing Room (Contemporary Art), Singapore
The Corrections, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, N.Y., USA
2014
Notes from the Ste. Anne Asylum, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Beware of Painting, Crucible Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2013
Perverse Sublime of the Toxic, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Monument to the Pathetic Sublime, Space of Drawing, Copenhagen, Danemark
Carré St. Anne (in partnership with MIAM Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète), Montpellier, France
2012
Cryptic Slaughter, Finale Art File, Manila, Philippines
The 80's, Topaz Arts, New York, N.Y., USA
How I Paint Some of My Paintings, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, N.Y., USA
YIA Artfair with Nosbaum Reding, Young International Artists, Paris, France
2011
Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, Austria
The Ghost Poo of Painting, philara - Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
Contemporary Psychology and The Theoretical Steroid Defiled Modernist Chicken, SOD Space of Drawings, Marie Kirkegaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rebels of abstraction and the ghost poo of painting, adhoc galleria, Vigo, Spain
The Beer Belly Masculinity Intensification Program or When Hangover Becomes Form, Kaliman Rawlins Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2010
Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, N.Y., USA
An Exhibition of Collaborations with 7 Imaginary Friends Showing a Variety of Painterly Mishaps Flaunted as Majestic Embellishments, Nosbaum Reding, 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, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Guided by Sausage, Le (9) bis, Saint-Etienne, France
Kitsch Recovery Program, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2006
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, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York, N.Y., USA
Down with Reality, Galerie Jesco von Puttkamer, Berlin, Germany
2005
Mumu Territorium, The Art Center Megamall, Mandaluyong Metro Manila, Philippines
The Holocaustic Spackle in the Murals of the Quixotic Inseminators, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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
2003
Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
Wunderkammer, Gesellschaft Für Gegenwartskunst, Society for Contemporary Art Augsburg, 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, France
The Inadequacy of the Struggle Against the Inadequacy of the Struggle, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, USA
2001
Presenting the Undisclosed System of References in the Loophole of Misunderstanding, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Free Aesthetic Pleasure Now!, Babilonia 1808, Berkeley, CA, USA
2000
Those Long Dormant Pimples of Inattention Counterattacking the Hyper-Convoluted Dramas of the Gaze, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Galerie Baerbel Grasslin, Frankfurt, Germany
Those Long Dormant Pimples of Inattention Meandering through the Cranium Arcade of Pitiless Logic Swastikating between Love and Hate, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, N. Y., USA
The Stream of Transcendent Object-Making Consciously Working towards the Goal, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
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), Spain
The Inversion of the Ideal: Navigating the Landscape of Intestinal Muck, Swastikating between Love and Hate, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (catalogue), Spain
1998
To Infinity and Beyond: Presenting the Unpresentable - The Sublime or the Lack Thereof, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Yo Tambien Soy Pintura, El Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz (catalogue), Spain
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), Spain
Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
1997
Heridas de la Lengua, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California (catalogue), CA, USA
Hacer Pintura Es Hacer Patria, Galeria OMR, Mexico City (catalogue)
1996
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, N. Y., USA
1995
Ciocca Raffaelli Arte Contemporaneo, Milan (catalogue), Italy
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
1994
Paraiso Abierto a Todos, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Stations of the Cross, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, N. Y., USA
1993
New Paintings, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries/Fred Hoffman, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Manuel Ocampo, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
1992
Grupo de Gago, Weingart Center Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Matrix Berkeley 150, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley.par, CA, USA
1991
M.J.O., Jay Chiat residence, New York, N. Y, USA
Manuel Ocampo, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
1990
Substancias Irritantes, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA, USA
1989
John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
The Onyx Café, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1988
Lies, Falls Hopes, and Megalomania, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Paint Is the Spit Between the Eyes and the Gaze, Pablo, BGC, Taguig, Philippines
Chances of Contact, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines
No Walls, No Problem, Greyspace, San Juan, Philippines
2023
Drawing 101, Pablo/Post Gallery, Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines
2021
Black and White, Modeka Creative Space, Makati, Philippines
Sordida Impresores, Pablo Fort, BGC, Taguig, Philippines
High Emission Zone, Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris, France
2020
Abortion of Cute, Art Informal, San Juan, Philippines
Turning the Axis of the World, STPI Gallery, Singapore
Looking Forward, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Dear Hong Kong…, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
An Alteration Of Intake & Exhaust, Combustion & Expansion, Artinformal, Makati, Philippines
ALT Philippines 2020, The Drawing Room Gallery, Mabini, Philippines
Collaborations, The Drawing Room, Makati, Philippines
2019
Attempt to Raise Hell: 25 Years of Track 16, Track 16, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Children of Saturn, Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art, Rochechouart, France
Body In Landscape, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, Chelsea, N.Y., USA
How Many Artists Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb, The Drawing Room Gallery, Singapore, Philippines
The Spectre of Comparison, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Philippines
Pampre It Up!, La Mauvaise Reputation Galerie, Bordeaux, France
10 Years, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Manuel Ocampo & Irene Iré, Galeria Juan Silio, Santander, Spain
Back to the Hood, Galerie La Mauvaise Réputation, Bordeaux, collaboration with Galerie Thomas Bernard - Cortex Athletico, Paris, France
Manuel Ocampo and Irene Iré, 500 Years After Guernica, Topaz Arts, New York, N.Y., USA
Paper Cuts: Large-Scale Collage, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
2017
Group Show, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Material Matters, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Alternative Perspectives at a Crossroads, r/e projects, espacio artkunstarte, Madrid, Spain (with Samson Young)
Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Exposition d'été, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
The Spectre of Comparison, Pavilion of the Philippines, 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2016
Topsy Turvy, Finale Art File, Makati, Philippines
Brown Dada, Vinyl on Vinyl, Makati, Philippines
Fundacion Canaria para el Desarollo de la Pintura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Underbrut, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Plus jamais seul, Hervé di Rosa et les arts modestes, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Transnational Narrations: Paperworks, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila
2015-2016
Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; and Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
2015
Tropes of Expectations, Vinyl On Vinyl, Manila, Philippines
Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, USA
Traveling to Telfair Museum of Art Savannah, GA, USA; University Die Kunst, die Kunst - ich pfeife auf die Kunst: Arthur Cravan im Ring mit 13 Künstlern unserer Zeit, 8. Salon, Hamburg, Germany; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; and Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
First Look: Collecting Contemporary at the Asian, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Wasak! Filipino Art Today, Arndt Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014
Possession II, Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry, UK
Divine Comedy, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
2013
Les Maîtres du désordre, Fundacio la Caixa, Madrid, Spain
Manilla Vice - Curated by Manuel Ocampo, MIAM, Sète, France
2012
Queens Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, for the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial
Bastards of Misrepresentation, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
I'm so Goth I'm Dead, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA, USA
Manuel Ocampo/Paul Pretzer/Joachim Weischer, Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Flying, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Museum, Australia
2011
Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Dublin, Ireland
2010
Free Range Aesthetics: Pussyfooting Through the Detritus Mind Field of Reality, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA, USA
Painting with a Hammer to Nail the Crotch of Civilization: A Group Show of Wall Works and Tattoo Imagery, Manila Contemporary, Makati City, Philippines
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
Bongoût, Berlin, Germany
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
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
Morts de rire, La Panacée, Montpellier, 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, CA, USA
Nosbaum Reding at Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
2006
En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza sin Alcohol (with Curro Gonzalez), Galeria adhoc, Vigo, Spain
No System Can Give the Masses the Proper Social Graces (with Damien Deroubaix), Haptic at La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
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
Miserable Intentions (with Gaston Damag), Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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, CA, USA
The Broken Mirror, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, N.Y., 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, CA, USA (catalogue)
Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millenium, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, 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 1999, Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue)
1998
At Home and Abroad: 21 Contemporary Filipino Artists, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA (catalogue)
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA (catalogue)
Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 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, CA, USA (catalogue)
Nu-Glu, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Past Time, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Pervasive Referents, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Unmapping the Earth, 1997 Kwangju Biennial, Korea (catalogue)
Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO, USA
1996
Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, Italy (catalogue)
1995
Eye Tattooed America, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
In the Light of Goya, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Post-Colonial California, San Francisco State University, CA, USA
1994
Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, The Asia Society, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
Icastica, Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (catalogue)
Jean-Michel Basquiat & Manuel Ocampo, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington D.C., USA
Manuel Ocampo & Don Ed Hardy, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Sacred and Profane, Studio Nosei, Rome, Italy
Unholy Wars, Postmasters, New York, NY, 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, CA, 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, CA, 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
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.\par The Art Matters Foundation
Collections
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Canary Islands, Spain
Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris, France
Fonds régional d'art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
Fonds régional d'art contemporain Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris, France
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Mudam), Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, USA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA