Buen CALUBAYAN Philippines , b. 1980

Solo Exhibition
2020            
Antimemory Antiarchive, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2019            
Landscape Museum Household: A Sweeper’s Guide, Arario Gallery, Ryse    hotel, Seoul, Korea
2018            
Towards the Everyday and Its Proper Places: On Housework Museology and the Production of Oxygen, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2016            
Hidalgo: Towards a History from Within, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City
2015            
Biowork, Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2014            
Bionote, Blanc Gallery and Liongoren Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
Idiot Knows No Country, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, Australia
2013            
Biography, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
Spoliarium, Now Gallery, Makati City, Philippines
2012            
Fressie Capulong, Blanc Peninsula, Makati City, PhilippinesF
2008            
Crawling Man™, 1/of Gallery, Taguig City, Philippines
2007            
Idiot Show for Idiots, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Pasay City, Philippines
The Cubicle Art Gallery, Pasig City, Philippines
Big Sky Mind, Quezon City, Philippines
TAO™, 1/of Gallery, Taguig City, Philippines
 
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022        
Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2021        
We Are Going to Have to Live Outside, For Proto/Para: Rethinking Curatorial Work, UP Vargas Museum, Quezon City, Philippines
2019            
Far Away But Strangely Familiar, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017            
The Artist and the Social Dreamer, Forecast Festival, HKW, Berlin
Mutable Truths : Perspectives in Philippine Contemporaryn Art, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Australia; Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2016            
Figuring Filipino Utopia, Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
Every Island from Sea to Sea,  Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Between the Street and the Mountain, Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China
Debatable Screenings/Lend Me Your Softness, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, USA
2015.      
Stop Look Listen, 1335 Mabini, Manila, Philippines
Wasak! Filipino Art Today, Arndt Gallery, Berlin, Germany        
2014            
Holdings, Working Artists Group, In Forces at Work, UP Vargas Museum, Quezon City, Philippines
Articles of Disagreement, LopezMemorial Museum, Pasig City, Philippines
The Mirror and Monitor of Democracy in Asia, Gwangju Museum of Art, Republic of Korea
2013            
MarkingTime: Ateneo Art Awards 2013, Shangri-La Plaza and Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
The Philippine Contemporary: To Scale the Past and the
Possible, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines
2012            
Working Artist Group, Inexactly THIS, Kunstvlaai – Festival of Independents, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011            
Touch Me, Hiraya Gallery, Manila,Philippines
2010            
Now/here, Plataporma Collective, In Zero In: Extensions, Lopez Memorial Museum, Pasig City, Philippines
2009            
Thirteen Artists Awards, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Pasay City, Philippines
2008            
Tablado, w/ Noel Soler Cuizon & Renan Ortiz, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
FoEM, Finale Art File / SM Art Center – SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, Philippines
TutoK: Kargado, Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2007            
TutoK: Nexus, Loyola House of Studies, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
 
 
Award
2013        
Ateneo Arts Awards: Marking Time, Ateneo Art Gallery
2009        
13 Artists Awards, Cultural Center of the Philippines
 
Residency
2018        
Acts of Life, MCAD Manila / NTU CCA Singapore / Commissioned by the Goethe-Institut
2017        
NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore
2014        
Ateneo Art Gallery – La Trobe University Visual Arts Center Residency Program, Bendigo, Australia
2011        
JENESYS Programme, Invitation Programme for Creators, Japan Foundation: Aomori Contemporary Art Center (ACAC), Aomori Prefecture; Tokyo, Japan
2008        
Residency and Exchange Art Program, Organised by Artesan Art Gallery & NUS, National University of Singapore; Sambalikhaan, Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music, Quezon City, Philippines
 
Selected Bibliography
2021        
Antimemory Antiarchive, Exhibition Catalogue, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2020        
Fortes, Zyrael Genesis. “Horizon Out of Sight.” Tractions: Experiments in Art Writing. June 2020, https://medium.com/@tractions_artwriting/grid-a31fcc4524d8
2019        
Godfrey, Tony. Far Away But Strangely Familiar. Exhibition
2018        
Calubayan, Jocelyn T. “Becoming Human in the Course of the Everyday.” In Towards the Everyday and Its Proper Places: On Housework Museology and the Production of Oxygen. Exhibition Essay. Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2017        
Herrera, Ma. Victoria. Mutable Truths: Perspectives on Philippine Contemporary Art. Exhibition Catalogue. Bendigo: La Trobe Art Institute
Veric, Charlie Samuya. Figuring Filipino Utopia. Exhibition Catalogue. Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City
2016
Flores, Patrick D. “Atmosphere.” In Every Island from Sea to Sea: Recent Philippine Art. Exhibition Catalogue. Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Godfrey, Tony. Between the Street and the Mountain. Exhibition Catalogue.: Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China
2015       
Calubayan, Buen. Biowork. Exhibition Catalogue. Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2013      
Garing, Thea and Luigi Singson. Marking Time:Ateneo Art Awards 2013. Exhibition Catalogue. Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2012        
Miranda, Donna. Working Artists Group. Exhibition Catalogue published for INexactly THIS, Kunstvlaai Festival of Independents,23 November – 2 December 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherland; Green Papaya Art Project,  Quezon City, Philippines
2011        
Suárez, Angelo V. “Salvaging the Author: The Social Turn in Philippine Poetry.” High Chair, Issue # 15, July – December 2011, http://www.highchair.com.ph/issue15/15_salvagingtheauthor.htm (accessed 16 March 201“Storyline: Malaya.” Storyline. Created by Paolo Villaluna and Patricia Evangelista. ANC. 18 August 2011.
2009        
Tuazon, Wire. “Chaosmosis and a Stupidogram.” In 13 Artists Awards 2009, 6-9. Exhibition Catalogue. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines, Philippine
Suárez, Angelo V. “Buen Calubayan: Reluctant Insider.” Preview Magazine, October 2009.
 
Artistic Research
On Experience and Everyday Life
Landscape as the Expanded View of Experience / Ground and Perspective / On Diagrams
On Perception, Landscape Theory and World Making
Sensing the World / Dismantling the Picturesque / Spectra of the Old Horizon / Instructions on Viewing the Landscape / Vanishing Point
On Archiving, Biography Work and Historiography
Towards the Everyday and Its Proper Places / Biowork / Bionote / Biography / Fressie Capulong
Hidalgo: Towards A History From Within / Employee 55 / Spoliarium / Idiot Knows No Country
On Religiosity and Decolonization
Body of Christ / My Virgin Mama / Year of the Rat / Critcat Project / On Spectacle and Other Awkward Rules on Killing By Means of Natural Selection