CV

Name: MM Yu

Location: Manila, Philippines

Email: mmyu78@gmail.com

Website: misplacedalibi.tumblr.com

Education: 

1997-2001 BFA Major in Painting, College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

 

Awards and Recognition:

2014 Goethe-Institut Philippinen (Climate Change Workshop) Reporting Grant

2012 Ateneo Art Awards Shortlisted

2011 Ateneo Art Awards Shortlisted

2010 Sovereign Asian Art Prize- finalist

2009 Recipient Cultural Center of the Philippines 13^th Artists Award

2007 Recipient Ateneo Art Awards

2001 Nokia Art Awards Finalist (Philippines)

 

Residency

2013 Cite International des Arts-Paris

2007 Ateneo Art Gallery,Common Room Bandung Residency (recipient)

2003 Big sky mind Residency 70# 18^th ave murphy street Cubao

 

Exhibitions:

Solo Shows

2016 A Spoonful Weighs a Ton, Mo_Space Gallery

2015 Sum of its Parts, Art Informal

2015 Square Ends, Finale Art File

2015 In-Transit, 1335 Mabini

2014 Landpaintings, Silverlens Gallery

2013 Left of Here, West Gallery

2012 Inventory, Silverlens Gallery

2012 Miscellaneous, Art Department/Galeri Canna, Jakarta

2011 Inventory, Galerie Zimmermann-Kratochwill, Graz-Austria

2010 If You Could Hear a Pin Drop, West Gallery

2010 Waste Not, Want Not, Finale Gallery

2009 Either/Or, Finale Art File

2008 Rescind, West Gallery, West Avenue

2008 Odds and Ends, Finale, Lao Centre

2008 Black, Mag:net Katipunan

2007 Thoughts Collected, Recollected, Finale Gallery, SM Megamall A

2007 Misplaced Alibi, Pablo Gallery, Cubao Expo

2006 Disquiet, Finale Art File, Lao Center

2005 To Here Knows When, Finale Gallery, SM Megamall A

2004 Faint Descent, Mag:net Gallery, Paseo Center

2004 Breathe, Finale Gallery, SM Megamall A

2003 Facade, Finale Gallery, SM Megamall A

 

Two Man Shows

2014        Space and Two Points, MM YU/Nona Garcia Silverlens, Singapore

2011        Space and Two Points, MM Yu /Nona Garcia, MoSpace Gallery

2011        Sit, MM Yu /Nona Garcia Richard Koh Gallery with Finale Art File

2007        Variable Series, Poklong Anading and MM Yu, Mag:net Gallery                                                                                

 

International Group Participation

2016        

• Immeasurable Bangkok University Gallery
• Seismograph: Sensing the City-Art in the Urban Age
• South East Asia Forum-Art Stage Singapore

2014

• Paris Photo – Silverlens/ Grand Palais

2013

• Local Futures: The Culture China Young Overseas Chinese Invitational Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen
• Manila Vice – Musee International des arts Modestes  (Miam Sete, France)
• Echoes of Alliance: the Philippines in Paris-Alliance Française Foundation exhibit space
• Perdido Eden Ode to Art, Singapore

2012

• Bastards Of Misrepresentation: Queens Museum of Art, New York
• Grid 2012 Bi-Annual International Photography Festival
• The Porous Border G23 Gallery Bangkok
• Bastards of Misrepresentation:Contemporary Art from Manila, H Gallery-Bangkok

2011

• Chongquing Youth Art Biennale, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
• Serial Killers /Welcome to the Club Taksu Singapore, KL
• Salvation in a Nest of Vipers, Lost Projects y3k gallery, Melbourne Australia
• Complete & Unabridged Osage Gallery, Hongkong

2010

• Greatest Hits, Bastards Of Misrepresentation 8 .Salon Hamburg
• Bastards of Misrepresentation Freies Museum (Berlin)
• Inversion of The Ideal Gallerie Zimmermann-Kratochwill(Austria)
• Serial Killers Taksu (Singapore)
• Sovereign Asian Art Prize Art Space,Singapore
• The River Project Campbelltown Arts Centre (Australia , Sydney)
• Minimum Yields Maximum Monte Vista, Los Angeles
• Philippine Abstraction Slot gallery (Australia, Sydney)
• Forever and Ever and Ever and Ever VWFA Singapore
• No Soul For Sale  Green Papaya Art Projects Tate Modern
• This and That, Triple Base gallery, San Francisco
• Bayanihan, Okay Mountain, Austin Texas
• Cut Valentine Willie, Kuala Lumpur

2008

• Young Contemporary Philippines, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
• Beyond Frame, UTS Gallery(Sydney) La Trobe Visual Arts Centre (Bendigo ) Australia, Ateneo Art Gallery (Manila)
• The Galleon Trade:Bay area Now 5 edition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

2007

• Global Vernacular
• 2007 Ateneo Contemporary Philippine Art Award Finalists
• Visual Arts Centre(La Trobe University, Bendigo Australia)
• Jump Cut (to Darwin), independent video works from Manila, 24hr Art/Northern Territory Centre For Contemporary Art, Darwin, NT Australia
• Manila Envelope Thirty Nine Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii

2006

• Manila Envelope Worth Ryder Gallery, 116 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley ,College  Ave. @ Bancroft Way, Berkeley Californinia
• Metropolitan Mapping Hongkong Cultural Centre
• Flippin’ Out: Maynila to Williamsburgh, GOLIATH VISUAL SPACE 117 Dobbin St. Brooklyn, New York

 

Group Shows

2016

• Terratorial Pissings, Vinyl on Vinyl Gallery
• Occupation, Underground Gallery

2015

• Surface Tension, The Road to Cop 21 starts in Manila
• Alliance Francaise de Manille
• The In Image from Way out- a pseudo gig poster exhibit/Underground Gallery
• Traces, Finale Art File
• The Last Dog Show, Finale Art File
• Melted City 2, Blanc Gallery

2014

• Before And After, West Gallery
• BookEnds, Blanc Gallery
• Markets of Resistance, Baguio Market Art Stalls
• Reinventing Black,1957 to today), Finale Art File
• Met Open, Metropolitan Museum
• Hang ‘EM High, Blanc Gallery
• Do you Believe in Angels, Mospace
• Brave New Worlds, Metropolitan Museum
• “What does it all matter, as long as the wounds fit the arrows”, Cultural Center of the Philippines

2013

• Surface Area, Finale Art File
• el intruso/the intruder, 1335MABINI
• Picture Imperfect, Mo Space
• Tones of Home, Blanc Gallery
• Mona Lisa Project, Cultural Center of the Philippines

2012

• KM1: What Remains, What Disappears (public photography exhibit), Quezon Memorial Circle
• Hail to the Nightly Beasts of the Dark Sessions, Dagc Gallery
• Imagining Identity-100 Self Portraits, Finale Art file
• Outdoor Photo Installation, Ishmael Bernal Gallery

2011

• 12 Days of Xmas, Manila Contemporary
• Hybrids Blanc Peninsula Manila
• Hate Mail Manila Contemporary
• Monumental(documentations) Upstairs Gallery, Manila Contemporary
• Space and Two Points, MM Yu /Nona Garcia, Mospace
• Shop 6 Revisited Readymade: Remade and Unmade

2010

• Cube, Finale art file
• Manila Art 10, Hall 4 SMX Convention Center
• Sirens Hall Mo Space Gallery
• Unnamable, Manila Contemporary
• A Thousand Times Yes, Manila Contemporary
• Happily, Unhappy, Blanc Gallery

2009

• Beyond Frame, Ateneo Gallery curated by Gina Fairley
• Kaleidoscope, Silverlens Gallery
• 13 artists awards, Cultural Center of the Philippines
• Seeing you, Seeing me, contemporary portraiture Stick with the Enemy, Mospace
• Parameter + Play + Repitition = PATTERNS, Manila Contemporary, Valentine Willie Fineart
• Twelve by Nine, West Gallery, SM Megamall A

2008

• Inaugural show, part3 Finale art file, Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound (Gate 1),2241 Pasong Tamo, Makati City
• 60×40, West Gallery, SM Megamall
• Billboard Art Project, Outdoor Art gallery
• Frailty, Pablo Gallery
• Isang Daang Katao, Isang Daang Taka
• Asian Center R. Magsaysay corner Guerrero Road, UP Diliman, Quezon City
• Room 307: Inkling, Gutfeel, and Hunch, National Art Gallery
• Art 40, Pinto Art Gallery
• Killing Things, Cubicle
• Strain Extension – Video Exhibit, Mo Space Gallery
• Inaugural Exhibit magnet gallery columns
• Simula, AAA (for Gawad Kalinga)

2007

• Xmas show, Mag:net Katipunan
• SHOOT ME: Photographs Now, Mo_Space Gallery, 3^rd level Mos Design, Bonifacio High Street, Bonifacio Global City Taguig
• Pocket Monsters, Prose Gallery
• Global/Vernacular, Powerplant Mall Rockwell Center, Ateneo Art Gallery
• Superficial, F*Art Gallery
• I have Nothing to Paint and I’m Painting it, Mo_space Gallery, 3^rd level Mos Design Bonifacio High Street, Bonifacio Global City
• Stand Still, cinekatipunan-mag:net katipunan
• Ars Erotica, Sison Art Gallery
• Happy Thoughts Drawings, Pablo Gallery
• Inaugural Show, Magnet, Fort Bonifacio High Street
• Variable Series, collaboration by Poklong Anading and MM Yu, Mag:net Gallery ABS-CBN Video Screening by Visual Artists, Mag:net Gallery Katipunan
• Group Show, Artes

2006

• Indiscreet Charm of the Burlesque, Finale Art Gallery
• Jumpcut Video exhibit, Green Papaya
• Bawal Umihi Dito photo exhibit Cr Gallery, Mag:net Katipunan
• Missing Vocabularies, Green Papaya Art Projects
• The Blank Show West Gallery, West Ave
• Conflict Resolutions Future Prospects, Cubao Expo
• Metropolitan Mapping, Finale Art File/
• Cultural Art Center, Hongkong
• Long Goodbye Mag:net Gallery-Katipunan, Group Show, Artes Café
• Newyork Cubao Barewall Gallery, Connecticut street
• Common and Uncommon Goods Future Prospects, Cubao Expo
• Inaugural Show, Mag:net Katipunan
• New Works, Museo ng Iloilo

2005

• New Paintings and Other Stuff, Mag:net Gallery ABS-CBN Loop
• FLIPPIN’ OUT: MAYNILA to WILLIAMSBURGH – Goliath, Brooklyn New York
• Picturing Painting Jorge B. Vargas Museum
• 600 Images / 60 Artists / 6 Curators / 6 Cities – Bangkok / Berlin / London / Los Angeles / Manila / Saigon, Lumiere, Makati Ave, Makati City, Philippines
• Polaroids Revisited, Lumiere
• Group show, Cubicle
• Overview, Mag:net Gallery Katipunan, ABS-CBN

2004

• Inventory, Cubicle Gallery, Pasig
• On Thought Experiments, Theo Gallery, Saguijo
• The Sedimentation of the Mind is a Jumbled Museum, UP Vargas Museum
• Display, The Podium
• Lift Me Up Cubicle, Cancelled Metaphors Art Center, SM Megamall A
• Advanced Problems 101, Mag:NET Gallery, Paseo Center Makati City
• Pag-ibig Findings, UFO Addition Hills Mandaluyong City, Cubicle, Pasig City
• Building Bridges, 18^th Ave. Artists Compound, Cubao, Q.C.

2003

• Under Construction, 18^th Ave. Artist Compound, Cubao, Q.C.
• Dogshow, UFO Addition Hills Mandaluyong City Cubicle, Pasig City
• X- MAS Group Show, Mag:net Gallery, Paseo Center Makati City
• Satellite Big Sky Mind Artists’ Projects Foundation, 18^th Avenue Artists Compound
• Picture This, The Art Center, SM Megamall A Curated by Roberto Chabet
• Pag-ibig Findings, The Cubicle, Pasig
• Rugged Art Gallery, Big Sky Mind
• Lighting Show, Photography Art Center
• Disparity And Variability, The White Wall, Crowded House Vinzon’s bldng
• Conversation, Art Center, Sm Megamall A Curated by Roberto Chabet
• Sell Out, The UP Iris Photo Exhibit Bistro 110 Carlos Palanca Makati
• ON OFF, Video Art Exhibition, Greenbelt Cinema 1

2001

• Memoirs, Thesis video shown in UNTV UHF Channel Progressive Broadcasting
• Prolegomenon, The White Wall, Odd Manila, Q.C. Curated by Gerardo Tan
• Eye on the World, (Nokia) RCBC Plaza Tower ii, Ayala Avenue Makati City
• Cool Pieties, Art Center Presented by Finale Art Gallery Curated by Roberto Chabet
• Interruption Big Sky Mind
• White on White, 100 Artist-200 Works The White Wall, Odd Manila Q.C.
• Two for the Road Green Papaya Gallery Curated by Gerardo Tan
• This is not a test this is reality, Surrounded by Water gallery
• Student Faculty Exhibit, University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts Gallery
• Gimokud, An Online Exhibition
• Iris Photography Exhibit, University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts Corridor

2000

• Process Art Seminar, University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts Gallery
• 2nd Edition, Printworks Blind Tiger, Visayas Avenue
• A Multimedia Exhibit in Conjunction w/ Versus, Alumni Center, University of the Philippines Diliman

1999

• 1st Edition, Msg Gallery, Xavierville, Quezon City
• Section V, West Gallery, Quezon City

1998

• College of Fine Arts Exhibit, University of the Philippines Faculty Center