About the Artist:
Born 1984 in
Caloocan, Philippines, Dex Fernandez is an interdisciplinary artist who lives
and works in Manila, Philippines. He is currently known for his ongoing street
art project called Garapata.
Fernandez’s
eclectic compositions challenge the traditional definitions of high culture and
fine art. In 2015, he became a recipient of 13 Artists Award by the Cultural
Center of the Philippines. His works been a part of numerous local and
international exhibitions, shown in spaces such as UP Vargas Museum, Cultural
Center of the Philippines (CCP), Museum of Design and Contemporary Arts (MCAD),
Pablo Gallery, West Gallery, Drawing Room Contemporary Arts, Pinto Art Museum
and Silverlens in Manila, as well as Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Primo Marella
Gallery in Italy, Topaz Arts in New York, Osage Foundation, Lightbomb
Contemporary and Rossi & Rossi in Hong Kong, 1am Gallery in San Francisco
and Owen James Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC. Fernandez also participated in
the first Urban Art Fair in Paris, (2016) and Singapore Art Biennale 2016.
He also completed residency programs at Vermont
Studio Centre (2011), Ping Pong Art Space Taiwan (2012), Lir Art Space,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2013) Asian Cultural Council in New York, Fine Arts Work
Center, Massachusetts (2015), Ongoing Art Center, Tokyo (2016).
Instagram: @dexfernandez / @garapata
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STUDIES
2005
Technological
University of the Philippines / Fine Arts
Residency Grant:
May 20 – July 26, 2016
Ongoing
Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
May – Nov 2015
ACC
– Asian Cultural Council, New York, USA
Dec 1 – Dec 15, 2013
Lir Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Sept 5 – Oct 12, 2012
Ping Pong Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Oct 23 – Dec 16, 2011
Vermont Studio Center, Vermont US
Biennale :
Oct 2016 – Feb 2017
Singapore Biennale, 6th
Edition.
Singapore
Art Museum
Solo Projects:
Feb 2017
Art Fair Philippines 2017
Feb 2014
Art Fair Philippines 2014
Award:
13
Artist Awardee of 2015
Cultural
Center of the Philippines
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
October 15, 2017
GC3: Mating Season Pinto Art Gallery, Pinto Art Museum, Antipolo City
April 1, 2017
Drawing Room X Dex Fernandez Drawing Room Gallery, Pasomg Tamo Ext Makati City,
Philippines
September 8, 2016
GARAPARTY Altromondo Gallery,
Greenbelt 5, Makati City Philippines
May 20, 2016
→ Art Center Ongoing,
Kichijoji Tokyo, Japan
October 31, 2015
310E44R822 Owen James Gallery, Greenpoint Brooklyn New York City NY, USA
June 5, 2015
The Moth and The Bulldozer Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown MA, USA
April 15, 2015
The Triangle Man and The Flightless Diawata (!0th
Romeo Forbes Storytelling) Book Launch Vargas Museum, UP Diliman
QC Philippines
July 3 – August 2, 2014
1000000000mg West Gallery, West Ave. QC Philippines
October 26 – November 20, 2013
Solignum Attack;
Garapata Stool Launch Vinyl on Vinyl, Malugay St. Makati City Philippines
January 12 – February 2, 2013
: - ) Pablo Gallery, Fort
Bonifacio Global City Taguig Philippines
September 29, 2012
B/W/TPE Pingpong Artspace, Taipei,
Taiwan
February 12, 2012
Garapata Toy Launch
Secret Fresh Gallery, Ronac Art Center, Ortigas
Philippines
December 6, 2011
VSCX Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
September 13 – October 8, 2011
XOXOXO West Gallery, West Ave.
QC Philippines
February 16 – March 19, 2011
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Slab/Silverlens, Makati City Philippines
January 20 – February 24, 2010
- + * Pablo
Gallery, Fort Bonifacio Global City Taguig Philippines
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
(October
14) SCOPE: Pingpong set# 1 / Screening of videos works from the Philippines, Presented
by 98B Collaboratory (Manila)
and
Space Ppong (Gwangju)
(August
27) The Farced Eyed, Kalawakan Spacetime,
Quezon City Philippines
(August
19) In Between Spaces: Video/Photo Exhibition, No.26 Core Plaza, No.1
Shanyuan St Zhongguancun, Haidian, Beijing China
(August
19) Merthiolate , Metro Gallery, Mandaluyong City Philippines
(August
19) Drawing Room Group Show, Drawing Room, Makati
City Philippines
(May
22) Pinto Manila x Manhattan 24hour Art SHow, Urban Zen, Greenwich
Manhattan NYC
2016
(Sept
15) Mars Ravelo Reinterpreted, Cultural Center of the
Philippines
(Sept
2) 36 Asia Young Artists, Jeonbuk Museum of Art,
Jeonju, Korea
(August
19) MASK, Diesel Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
(July
23) Sticker Party, BnA Koenji Tokyo, Japan
(July
2) X – Pilipinas Street Plan 10th Yr Anniv., Pablo Gallery, Fort
Bonifacio Global City Taguig Philippines
2015
(March
21) Secret Archipelago Palais de Tokyo, Paris
France
(March
7) South by Southeast Osage Art Foundation, Hing Yip St. Kwun Tong, Hong
Kong
(March
7) Fluidity
and Encounters Rossi and Rossi Gallery, Unit
3C, Yally Industrial Building, 6 Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
2014
(Dec.)
Alay, Boston Gallery, Quezon City
(Dec.)
Interval, West Gallery, Quezon City
(Nov.)
BookEnds, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City
(July
11) Maynila, Arndt Singapore
(July
4) Street Meet Festival, Saskatoon, Canada
(April
30) New Natives, LightBomb, Hong Kong
(April
3) Tabletop, Altro Mondo Gallery, Makati City,
(March 13) Drawn To Scale, Vargas Museum UP
Diliman,
2013
(Oct.)
Still, Blanc Gallery, Katipunan Quezon City
(April
10) Manila Vice: Part of Bastards of Misrepresentation: Sete Museum, France
2012
(Nov3)
Doing Time on Filipino Time: Part of Bastards of Misrepresentation: NY Edition
#2, Crossing Art Gallery, New York, USA
(Oct27)
Bastards of Misrepresentation: NY Edition #2, Topaz Arts, New York, USA
(Oct27)
“Volume1”, Erehwon Center for the
Arts, Quezon City
(Sept9)
“Bloom Art Festival”, Cubao, Quezon
City
(June9)
From the Black Lagoon, Department of Avant Garde Cliché, Pasong Tamo Ext. Makati City
(May3) Bastards of Misrepresentation, H Gallery, Bangkok,
Thailand
(April20)
Outerhope, Blanc Gallery Shaw Blvd
(Jan11) Art
Stage Singapore, / Pablo Gallery, Marina Bay Convention Hall, Singapore
2011
(Sept 17) “Confessions of
a Sinner” Manila
Contemporary, Whitespace Pasong Tamo Ext. Makati City
(Sept 16) “Wallpaper 2”
Pablo Gallery, Cubao X
(July 26) “A Soundtrack
to Nothing” Crucible
Gallery, Mandaluyong City
(July
7) “Hats On, Bottoms Off” Blanc
Compound, Shaw Blvd Mandaluyong City
(May 24) “Flatfield”,
West Gallery, West
Ave. QC
(May 7) “Survavalism”, Light and Space
Contemporary
(Feb 8) “Boy
Cotter of Beauty and the Theoretical Steroid Defiled Modernist Chicken”, West Gallery, West Ave.
QC
2010
(October 14) “Implode,
TUP Alumni Art Exhibit”, Bulwagan
Juan Luna Main Gallery CCP, Pasay City
(October 7) “Berliner-liste:
Art Fair for Contemporary art and photography“,Pablo
Gallery - Berlin, Germany
(September) “Latitudes,
Encounter with the Philippines”, Primo Marella Gallery -
Italy
(June 5) “Siren’s
Hall”, Mo Space, MOs Design, Global City Tagiug
(May 4) “3
x 3 + 9“, Magnet High Street, Bonifacio
Global City Tagiug
(January) “Happily
Unhappy”, Blanc Compound, Shaw Blvd Mandaluyong City
2009
(November 13) “Tabi
Po Tabi Po: A Filipino folklore Exhibit and Sound Installation”,
1am Gallery San Francisco, Califonia
(November 6) “Forever
and Ever and Ever and Ever , Valentine Willie Fine Art,
Singapore
(October 16) “FTW” 2man
Show, Tala Gallery, Tomas Morato, Quezon City
(September 15) “The
Spoils of Love, an Imagine Silence Exhibit”, Ayala Greenbelt 5 and 3, Makati
City
(June 14) “Hybrid
Moments” Kaida Art Gallery Kamuning Road
(June 13) “Love
Rules” Boston Gallery, Boston Street Cubao, Quezon City
(May 29) “If
I Were A Monster”, White Box Studio, Cubao-X Marikina Shoe Expo,
Araneta Center, Cubao
(January 17) “Magnum Asupre 2”
Bluewings Art Space Rafa’s deli & café, Unit C10 Xavierville Ave. Loyola
Heights, Quezon City
2008
(Nov) Tutok Bantayog : Anong K
mo, Blanc Compound ,Shaw Blvd Mandaluyong City(Nov 22) “TULAY”
Filipino and Fil-Am Art Exhibit, I-Hotel Manilatown Center,
San Francisco
(Nov) Boxed: Eros,
The Cubicle Art Gallery, Pasig City
(August 21) “Ä story from home;
Myth, folklore, and legend of Philippines” Fourth Gallery,
Singapore
(May 28) "Perpetual Playground
of your Lustful Minds" 2 man show,
Bluewings Art Space Rafa’s deli & café, Unit C10 Xavierville Ave. Loyola
Heights, Quezon City
(January 23) "Viva
Mansterville" Big Sky Mind, Quezon City
2007
(December) "Four Equal
Sides" Big and Small Art Gallery SM Megamall, Mandaluyong
City
(November 7) “Magnum Asupre”
Bluewings Art Space Rafa’s deli & café, Quezon City
(September 29) “Going out, Coming
in” 2 man show
White Box Studio, Cubao-X, Cubao Quezon City
(June 21) “RETURNOSTALGIA” Big and Small Art gallery SM Megamall,
Mandaluyong City
(May 15) “Nonsense” White Box Studio, Cubao-X Marikina Shoe Expo, Araneta Center, Cubao
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