Clarissa Chikiamco
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | writer and curator |
| Location | Manila, Philippines |
| Introduction | Clarissa "Lisa" Chikiamco is an art writer and curator formerly based in Manila, Philippines. She graduated magna cum laude BFA Art Management from Ateneo de Manila University, was a recipient of The Philippine Star's Lifestyle Journalism Awards for Art and Culture and completed her master's degree in Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne as an Australian Endeavour Scholarship Awardee. She participated in the Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces’ Emerging Writers Program in Melbourne in 2008 and in the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in Korea, 2010. She co-curated a major retrospective of the Philippine artist Lee Aguinaldo (1933-2007) for the 50th anniversary of the modern art museum, the Ateneo Art Gallery, and completed a research residency at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Fukuoka, Japan (February-March 2011). She is curating End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, a series of solo exhibitions of Philippine contemporary artists presenting new video work from 2011-2013 and was in Korea as part of the first edition of the Asia Young Artists Festival (April 2011). |
| Interests | art |