OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, February 6, 2009
7:00 PM

Recent Paintings and Collages continues Gerardo Tan’s exploration in collage-based paintings and collages that probe postmodern concepts of originality and individual style.

In Tan’s recent works, painted and printed copies of images mined from the detritus of mass media such as art newspapers, supermarket ads, art catalogs and posters, coexist in a non-hierarchical matrix of collisions between the abstract and the familiar, the real and the fake, the rare and the mundane, the old and the new.

By reconfiguring incongruent images from art and non-art sources, signification is redirected into his work, debasing and acknowledging individual style. This suggests that meaning is an arbitrary construct and individual expression is inauthentic and a simulation of pre-existing things.

ABOUT

b. June 22, 1960, Manila
lives and works in Quezon City, Metro Manila

EDUCATION

1992
MFA, State University of New York at Buffalo, Major in Painting

1982
BFA, University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts, Major in Painting

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1993 - Present
Professorial Lecturer, UP College of Fine Arts, Diliman, Quezon City

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
Finale Gallery, Pasong Tamo, Makati City. Theatre of Disguise
Mag:net Gallery Katipunan, Quezon City. Ellipses

2007
Mag:net Gallery Katipunan, Quezon City. Flatbed Stories

2006
Mag:net Gallery Katipunan. Quezon City. This Is Not A Gregor Schneider’s Room

2004
Mag:net Gallery Paseo, Paseo Center, Makati City, Metro Manila. Doing Time

2003
Finale Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Scanning the Mall
Magnet Gallery and Kitchen: a two-venue exhibition. Quezon City and Mandaluyong City. Fast-food Cotan

2002
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Mirror Painting

2001
Big Sky Mind, New Manila, Quezon City. New Work: Lost Regions
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Instructions
DLSU Art Gallery, De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila. Access/Deaccess

2000
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Meetings

1999
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. New Works
Brix Gallery, Makati City. Code

1998
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Not A Trace

1997
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Recent Collages

1996
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. 14 Works

1995
La Gallerie, Alliance Francaise de Manille, Makati City. Index
West Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Collage

1994
Small Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. Recent Diggings
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Collages

1993
West Gallery, Quezon City. Whole Objects

1992
Just Pasta Restaurant, Buffalo, New York. Just Gerardo
Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, New York. MFA Thesis Exhibition

1991
Calumet Gallery, Buffalo, New York. New Paintings

1990
Brix Gallery, Makati City. Recent Works

1987
Small Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. Address Unknown

1985
Pinaglabanan Galleries at La Tasca. Makati City. Recent Paintings

1983
Sining Kamalig Gallery, Pasay City. Current Events

1982
Museum Hallway, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. Surfaces

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Finale Gallery, La Fuerza Compound, Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City. Inaugural Show

2007
MoSpace, High Street, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City. I have nothing to paint and I am painting it

2006
Finale Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Indiscrete Charm of the Burlesque
John Worth Ryder Gallery. UC Berkeley, USA. Manila Envelope

2004
Future Prospects, Marikina Shoe Expo, Cubao, Quezon City. Other Matters
Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. Picturing Painting

2003
Mag:net Gallery, Quezon City, Metro Manila. Cut: New Collage
Art Center, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Picture This
Vargas Museum, UP Diliman, Quezon City. Divine Intervention: A collaboration with Gaston Damag and Manuel Ocampo

2002
Project 1, Gwangju Bienniale Hall. The 4th Gwanju Biennale, Korea. Pause
Sculpture Square, Singapore. Xs-XL, Expanding Art

2001
Art Center, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Guilty Pleasures
Ayala Museum, Makati City. Space Meeting Place Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. Faith and the City

2000
SM Art Center, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Cracks and Abysses
Ayala Museum Gallery III, Makati City. Peripheral Visions

1999
Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, Australia, The First Melbourne International Biennial. Philippine Pavilion: The Golden Cargo Trading Company

1998
SM Art Center, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Illumined Pleasures
Soumak, Makati City. et al

1997
Art Center, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Ground Zero
West Gallery, Quezon City. Perishable Goods

1996
Art Center, SM Megamall. Dangerous Metaphors
West Gallery, Quezon City. Unglued

1995
Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila. Ako: Self-Portrait
Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. Painting by Numbers

1993
Art Center, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Recent Works
Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. Facts and Figures

1982
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY. X Sightings
Albright Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo, NY. The 44th Western New York Exhibition
Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY. The M&T Bank Collection for Burchfield Art Center: 1990-1991 Acquisitions
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY. Expose Yourself

1991
Calumet Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Many Voices
Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Recent Works (Arvidson, Perdiguero & Tan)
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY. Fire and Ice

1990
Bethune Gallery, SUNY Art Department. The Graduate Exhibitionists

1989
Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. Sikat: Two Decades of Philippine Art
Finale Art Gallery, Makati City. Small Works

1988
Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. 13 Artists Exhibition

1987
Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. Side A/Side B

1986
National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea. Contemporary Asian Art Show
Osmani Memorial Hall, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The 3rd Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh

1985
Pinaglabanan Gallery, San Juan. Recent Abstractions
Small Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. Object/Non Object
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka City, Japan. The 2nd Asian Art Show

1984
Metropolitan Gallery, Manila. Group Exhibition
Sining Kamalig Gallery, Pasay City. 1 x 1
Pinaglabanan Galleries, San Juan. 33 Artists

1983
Small Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. Quiet Spaces
Museum of Philippine Art, Manila. 6 Young Artists

1982
Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. CCP Annual ’82
Sining Kamalig/Regent of Manila, Roxas Boulevard, Manila. 4 Young Artists

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

1999
The Ist Melbourne International Biennial. The Philippine Pavilion, Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, Australia. Philippine Representative

1992
Albright Knox Art Gallery, The 44th Western New York Exhibition, Buffalo, NY, USA. The Barbara Schuller Art Associates Award

1990
State University of New York at Buffalo, M.F.A. in Painting. Fulbright-Hays Fellow 1992

1988
Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines. 13 Artists Awardee

1986
Osmani Memorial Hall, The 3rd Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh. Dhaka, Bangladesh. Best Entry Award

1982
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka City, Japan. The 2nd Asian Art Show Participant

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 27 August 2007. Gerardo Tan Repeats Himself by Angelo Suarez

The Honolulu Advertiser, 22 July 2007. Manila, Torn Open by David A.M. Goldberg

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 March 2003. Gerardo Tan at Mag:net and Kitchen Restaurant

Art in America, January 2000. Report from Australia: New Life in Melbourne by Felicity Fener

Frieze, Issue 48, September-October 1999. Melbourne International Biennial/Collaborating Countries Project by Daniel Palmer

Signs of Life: The 1st Melbourne International Bienniale 1999. Catalog Essay. Philippine Belongings and Other Possessions by Patrick Flores

The Age (Australia), Living, 26 May 1999. Just Enjoy the Chaos by Anna Clabburn