MARK SALVATUS (updated September 2011)

B: 1980 Lives and works in Lucban, Manila and elsewhere Represented by The Drawing Room Contemporary Art, Manila HUhttp://marksalvatus.blogspot.com U

0BEducation

MFA units, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines BFA, major in Advertising Arts, Cum Laude University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts & Design, Manila, Philippines 1BDiploma in Commercial Arts University of Santo Tomas, College of Architecture and Fine Arts, Manila, Philippines

Selected Solo Exhibitions & Projects 2012 Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines (upcoming) 2011 Other View, The Drawing Room Contemporary Art, Manila, Philippines 2B

2011 C_RAFTS, Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines 3B2011 Secret Garden, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre | VAC, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia 4B2010 Attached, The Drawing Room Contemporary Art, Manila, Philippines 5B2009 Court Yard, Pablo Gallery, Fort, Taguig, Philippines 6B2008 Good Morning Sickness, Nospace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2007 Embolicat, Ajuntament del Bruc Regidoria de Cultura, Barcelona, Spain 2007 Wrapped, Goyang Art Studio Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 2006 Jumbled Sequence Connection, Cubicle Gallery, Pasig City, Philippines 2006 Eyes Wide Open, Pablo Gallery, Cubao Xpo, Quezon City Philippines

7BSelected Group Exhibitions & Projects 2011 Maximum City: Survive or Escape, Jakarta Biennale XIV, Indonesia (upcoming) “Art Domain Migration” section, Back to the Basics - The Museum Per Se, 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Koganecho Bazaar, Voices of the Town, Parallel event, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan Open House, 3rd Singapore Biennale, Singapore Art Museum 8Q Stories of Dreams and Realities, Rossi & Rossi in collaboration with The Drawing Room Contemporary Art, London Vernacular Cultures & Contemporary Art in Australia, India and the Philippines, LUMA |La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia Nothing to Declare, Blanc Compound, Manila, Philippines Art Stage Singapore, The Drawing Room, Marina Bay Sands Art Summit India, The Drawing Room, New Delhi, India ArtHK 11, The Drawing Room, Hong Kong Scope Basel, The Drawing Room, Switzerland 2010 Extensions: Zero-In, Lopez Museum, Manila, Philippines What is Gunsan to Tell?, Gunsan Art Studio, South Korea Boat and Bridge_Net, Space Beam, Incheon, South Korea Shattering States, Ateneo Art Awards, Ateneo Art Gallery & Shangri-la Plaza, Manila, Philippines Structural Integrity, Next Wave Festival, Arts House, Meat Market, Melbourne, Australia, VOLTA6, Dreispitzhalle, Basel, Switzerland The Vargas Collection, Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines Signos, Art Center, Megamall, Mandaluyong, Philippines Faith and Reason, Manila Contemporary, Philippines

Paper Panic, 20Square Slab, Makati, Philippines Smokescreen, Tin-aw Gallery, Makati, Philippines 2009 Asia Panic, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju, South Korea Verso Manila, Verso Arte Contemporanea & The Drawing Room Turin, Italy Spirit of Asia, Gallery Nine, Gwangju, South Korea Tutok: SoEna, Manila Contemporary Gallery, Manila, Philippines Forever and Ever and Ever and Ever, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore X-Change, Centre Culturel et de Coopération Linguistique, Surabaya, Indonesia Current, Sungdu-an 5, National Art Gallery, National Museum, Manila, Philippines Daloy: 40 years, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines Open Day, different sites, Shatana, Jordan Connecting Urban Spaces, Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City, Philippines Cartographical Lure, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia TeXT, 5th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius, Lituania EXCEPT, Sala Silentium" of Vicolo Bolognetti, Bolgna, Italy 2008 Domestico ‘08, El Papel Del Artista, Calatrava, Madird, Spain Road:Rode, At The Vanishing Point (ATVP) Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia In Transition, National Centres of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg and Moscow, Russia Here We Are CologneOFF, Cologne, Germany 2nd Bagasbas Beach International Eco Arts Festival, Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines Action Parties # 2, See Scape Art Hub / Wunderspaze, Chiang Mai, Thailand Boxed 3, Cubicle Art Gallery, Pasig City, Philippines Tutok KKK, Blanc art space, Makati and Mandaluyong, Philippines Tutok Kargado, Ateneo Art Gallery, Philippines Roll Up, Grigore Mora Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania Festival Air International, Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia Urban Jealousy, 1

st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Iran

Tutok, National Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines 6th Uiwang International Placard Arts Festival, Uiwang, South Korea 2007 4th Neo-Angono Public Arts Festival, Angono, Rizal, Philippines Kasaysayang, Alab Art Space, Manila, Philippines Chonbuk International Sculpture Exhibition, Chonbuk Art Gallery, South Korea Open Studio 3, Goyang Art Studio, Seoul, South Korea Ansan International Art Expo, Dan Won Museum, Ansan, South Korea Boxed 2, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines Tutok Perspektiba, Beato Angelico Gallery University of Santo Tomas, Manila Faculty Center, University of the Philippines, Quezon City & Arnheim Gallery, St. Scholastica College, Philippines Langib, Beato Angelico Gallery UST, Manila, Philippines 2006 Dos por Dos, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines Boxed, Big Sky Mind Gallery, New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines Pab Hauz, Pablo Gallery, Cubao X, Philippines 2005 Wallpaper*, works on paper,Big Sky Mind Gallery, New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines Rebolusyon:Ilusyon, Cubicle Gallery, Pasig City, Philippines Salvation, Corridor Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines Re-representation, Beato Angelico Gallery, UST, Manila, Philippines Brushes with Words and Chords II, UST Museum, Manila, Philippines

Visions, GSIS Museum, Pasay City, Philippines 2004 International Exchange Exhibition for Design & Craft, Saga Prefecture Museum,Saga City, Japan Ped Xing, UST Museum, Manila, Philippines 2003 Philip Morris - Philippine Art Awards Exhibit, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines 2002 Printmakers Association of the Philippines, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Philippines Letras Y Figuras, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Pasay City, Philippines 2001 ASEAN Universities Arts Festival, University Cultural Center, National University of Singapore Eye on the World, (Nokia Art Awards) RCBC Plaza, Makati City, Philippines 8BGrants and Residencies 2011 Ateneo Art Awards-Art OMI International Artist Project Grant, New York, USA 2011 Storefront Artist Project with Ferin Gallery and Mass MoCA, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA 2011 Ateneo Art Awards-La Trobe University Grant Visual Arts Centre emerging artist grant, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia 2010 Ateneo Art Awards-Common Room Networks Foundation Residency Grant, Bandung, Indonesia 2010 Gunsan International Art Residency, Gunsan, South Korea, Artist Residency Fund, Arts and Culture Sector, Jeollabuk-do 2010 Space Beam Public Studio Program, Incheon, South Korea, Incheon Foundation for Arts and Culture 2009 ACAR Asia Cultural Artist Residency, Gwangju, South Korea, Daedong Culture Foundation 2009 Shatana International Residency, Shatana, Irbid, Jordan, Triangle Arts Trust 2009 W.O.P. Residency at Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City, Philippines (Arts Network Asia) 2008 Arts Network Asia (ANA) Travel Grant, Bandung, Indonesia 2007 Can Serrat Centro de Actividades Artisticas, Spanish Program for Cultural Cooperation (SPCC), Ministry of Culture of Spain, Barcelona, Spain 2007 IASK Goyang Art Studio, Museum of Contemporay Art (MOCA) Seoul, South Korea, supported by National Commission for Culture and the Arts Awards and Recognitions 2011 Nominated, Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum 2010 Winner, Ateneo Art Awards, Shattering States 2009 Nokia-Inquirer 10 Most Exciting Young Artist 2008 Short-listed, Ateneo Art Awards “Zones of Influence” 2007 National Book Award, Manila Critics Circle for “The Cat Painter” 2005 Finalist, National Book Award, Manila Critics Circle, “Papa’s House, Mama’s House 2004 Grand Prize, Philippine Board on Books for the Young-Alcala Illustrator’s Prize 2004 Honorable Mention, Art Association of the Philippines 2003 Finalist, Philip Morris-Philippine Art Awards 2003 Benavidez Outstanding Achievement Award conferred by UST 2003 First prize, UST inter-school on-the-spot painting contest 2002 Grand Prize, 2nd Artpetron students’ art competition 2002 Second Prize, Art Association of the Philippines Art Competiton 2002 Third Prize, Printmakers Association of the Philippines Open Fine print competition 2002 First Honorable Mention, Philippine Long Distance Telecom-DPC national students’ art competition Work Background

2008-2010 Kalayaan College, Fine Arts, Assistant Professor 2004-2007 University of Santo Tomas, College of Fine Arts and Design, Manila (Instructor 3) Significant Collections University of Santo Tomas Museum of Arts and Sciences Ateneo de Manila University Fine Arts Department Asian Cultural Complex, Gwangju Metropilitan City, South Korea Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines Bibliography (not updated) 2010 *Guazon, Tessa Maria, Engaging with Audiences, Asian Art News (July/August) *Santiago, Ina Stuart, Saved by Salvatus, Philippine Daily Inquirer (August) *Marcelo, Sam, The Spirit of Defiance, Business World, Arts & Lifestyle, Manila (August) *Cityscapes, ANC (June) *Visual Pond, ARTiculation, Contemporary artists from the Philippines, webisodes *Ito, Lisa, Art and its Public/s Broad topic: Art of/degrees of Engagement, Pananaw 7 *Lopa, Trickie, Mark Salvatus Gets Attached, Snippets from the Manila Art Scene *Talon, James, Painting the Town Green, The Varsitarian *Aguila, Ren, Playfully Postmodern, Philippine Online Chronilces http://www.thepoc.net *Villarama, Lauren, Mark Salvatus: Kung Ako si BF: The Neo Urban-Plan Project as an Exercise in Ethnoaestetic, 31st (UGAT) Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao / Anthropological Association of the Philippines Annual Conference "The (Re)Making of Cities and its Consequences." 2009 *Perez, Siddharta, Do or Die, arterimalaysia.com *Tagasa, Jen, Breaking and Rendering, Fudge Magazine (April-May) *September Mahino, City by Design, Garage Magazine (Feb-March) *Anna Canlas, Salvatus Army, Status Magazine (Feb-March) *Myra Mahyuddin, Q&A, KLue Magazine, Malaysia (Feb) *Lila Anne Razon, Urban Plan, Stella Magazine (Feb) *Gino dela Paz, Draft Punk, Supreme, Philippine Star (January) 2008 *Romulo, Erwin, Creative It List, Preview Magazine (October) *BK Magazine, Bangkok (October) *BAM (Bangkok Art Map), (October) *Varanyoo Intrakumhang, Good Morning Sickness, Esquire Magazine Thailand (September) *John Nikola Almelor, Sketches of Change, Manila Bulletin Online (October) http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2008/10/12/TOUR20081012137706.html * GinaFairley, Asian Art News (July/August) * Flaudette May Datuin, Wrapped:Traces, CTRL+P Contemporary Arts Journal (Aug) * Siddharta Perez, Zones of Influence Catalog, Ateneo Art Awards 2008 * Pardo, Barbara, ‘Writings on the Wall”, Metro Magazine, August 2008 *Romulo, Erwin, “I am not following you”, Home Style Magazine (May) *Tence-Ruiz, Jose, “Tutok:Kargado Catalog”, Ateneo de Manila University (May) *Michelle Camille Correa, “Come and get it”, ADMU, www.ateneo.edu (May) *Manahan, Juana, “When paintings speak Filipino”, Philippine Daily Inquirer (March) *Bautista, Jay, “The Sad Fluency of Wrapped Objects”,

http://philvisualarts.blogspot.com/ , (June) 2007 *Chan, Yonina, Providences and Provocations, Imagine Magazine (December) *Wrapped, My Goyang News, Goyang, S. Korea (June) *Open Studio 3 catalog, IASK, South Korea 2006 *Lisa Ito, “Shared Perspective”, exhibition note Tutok Perspektiba (Nov) *Garcia, Florian, “Eyes Wide Open”, The Varsitarian UST