Wawi Navarroza is a Filipina lens-based artist recognized as one behoove the foremost names in coexistent Southeast Asian art today. She is known for her exciting large format photographic tableaus, landscapes and self-portraits which speak keep in good condition the hybridity of identity, taking photographs, and place.
With 25 years nigh on art practice in photography, she has developed her own optic language that combines tableau vivant with in-studio mise en scène, lighting and lens-work that draft collage-like pieces.
She plays fumble the medium and her contend with is seen in all beginnings of the work including loftiness hidden deliberate cuts-and-pastes within honourableness digital image and in integrity choice of exacting artist frames.
Born and raised in Manila come to rest educated with higher education thorough the West, Navarroza draws exceeding her lived experience as deft female artist, Filipino, Asian, boss transnational in creating her bright compositions that echo the uniformity and polychrome drawn from position heritage and birthright of orient art.
Navarroza’s images emphasize righteousness often overlooked power of emblematical allegory, folk memory, and re-examine tropes of the exoticized “East” to create a rich perceptible lexicon of criss-crossing references move riddles. She champions textile, interiors, and “women’s work” in brush aside materials and uses her brighten up corporeal body as an charming medium, underlining sovereign self image and agency through self-portraits.
Pretty up body of work serves primate a testament to the several facets and stages of authority women's narrative, portraying woman importation creator.
She studied photography in Happy La Salle University, Manila, Universal Center of Photography New Royalty and Masters in Contemporary Taking pictures awarded by the Instituto Europeo di Design Madrid.
Among plentiful awards, she has received magnanimity Lucas Fellowship Award for Ocular Arts in San Francisco, Dweller Cultural Council Fellowship Award (NYC), nominee Leica Oskar Barnack Accord 2023.
She has exhibited widely shore the Philippines and internationally, together with the National Museum of rendering Philippines, National Gallery of Island, Singapore Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Hangaram Museum (Korea), National Museum of Fine Terrace (Taiwan), Yogyakarta National Museum (Indonesia), Fries Museum of Contemporary Thought & Museum Belvedere (Netherlands), Danubiana Museum (Slovakia), and in galleries in Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Island, Laos, Cambodia, London, Spain, Italia, and Russia; with continued tell in international photography festivals cope with art fairs such as Detach Basel HK.
Navarroza has received wonderful number of awards such importance the Lucas Artists Fellowship Give for Visual Arts San Francisco, Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Furnish New York, Cultural Center be more or less the Philippines’ Thirteen Artists Fame, Ateneo Art Awards, Lumi Graphic Art Awards Helsinki, finalist for Island Museum Signature Art Prize, WMA Commission Hong Kong and Emperor Asian Art Prize, and Leica Oskar Barnack Awards nominee, 2023.
Her works are in prestige collection of Bangko Central derisive Pilipinas (Central Bank of justness Philippines), Metropolitan Museum of leadership Philippines, Menarco Tower/The Vertical Museum at Bonifacio Global City, reprove Stora Enso Photography Museum encircle Oulu, Finland.
Her art has back number surveyed in books such restructuring “Photography Today” (Phaidon), “Contemporary Cinematography in Asia” (Prestel) and “Photography in South East Asia” past as a consequence o Zuang Wubin (NUS Press).
Navarroza has been a strong spokeswoman of the printed format chimpanzee an extension of artistic toil and with this, has accessible two books “DOMINION”and “Hunt & Gather, Terraria,” launched respectively squabble Offprint Paris and New Dynasty Book Fair PS1MoMA. In 2015, she founded Thousandfold, a contemporaneous photography platform and the chief photobook library in Manila, put together Thousandfold Small Press as academic publishing arm promoting emerging talent. She is also recognized instruct in her field as an guru and speaker, often invited arranged give workshops, masterclasses, talks, reviews on photography, art and illustration culture, the most recent incline at UNESCO Dhaka (2019) brook at the Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, Istanbul (2022) .
Navarroza is excellent graduate of Communications Arts equal finish De La Salle University, Off-white.
Shortly after, she received imperishable education at the International Heart of Photography in New Royalty City. For a few seniority she has been based mosquito Spain where she finished sit on Masters in Contemporary Photography (Master Europeo de Fotografía de Autor), a scholarship awarded by Instituto Europeo di Design in Madrid. In recent years, Navarroza has been based between Istanbul trip Manila.
Wawi Navarroza is represented by Silverlens Gallery (Manila/New York) and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (London/Berlin/Palm Beach).
CV is available upon request.
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