Josephine Turalba

Josephine Turalba is an interdisciplinary artist based between Manila and Boston, explores issues of divide and convergence within a volatile geo-political world order, her works reflect on the politics of violence and dynamics of infliction and trauma, depicting spaces where empathy translates into healing. She negotiates influences from different cultures – foreign influences on Philippine culture and viceversa, taking on an investigative approach to place and time (in history and the present), in relationship to a sense of self; using the female body as a ‘site’ of/on/ around/for her sculptural pieces to speak of history and speak to different spaces in society. Turalba’s nomadic relation to various forms of media, including performance, installation, experimental video, photography, tapestry, and painting, allows her to explore her obsessions with socio-political narratives, myths and personal histories.

She holds an MFA in New Media from Transart Institute New York (USA) and Donau Universität Krems (Austria). Currently a research fellow at the MIT Future Heritage Lab, she has served as Dean at the School of Fine Arts and Design at the Philippine Women’s University. Her works have been exhibited at ICA Singapore, the 2016 Lo...

2009
Masters in Fine Arts, New Media
Transart Institute validated by Donau University Krems, Linz, Austria

1988
Bachelor of Arts, Major in Psychology
University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

2020
Solo MMXX, Galleria Duemila, Manila, Philippines
Carpe Diem, ALT Exhibition, SM Aura, Manila, Philippines
36th International Festival Sarajevo Winter, Collegium Artisticum, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Art Piece as a Closed Text Series, Makati City, Philippines

2019
K9, Aphro, Makati City, Manila, Philippines
Violence Transformed, MA, USA
Art Politics: ONSAEMIRO: Art Politic – Border Crossing DMZ, Suwon Museum of Art, South Korea
Not Another Mother and Child, Orange Project, Bacolod City, Philippines
Womensemble: Creating Female Subjectivity in Art, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, Taipei, Taiwan

2018
Moving pledges: Art and action in Southeast Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
Femi-flow Creating Female Subjectivity in Art, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, Taipei, Taiwan
6th Canakkale Biennial: Imagined Homes, Turkey Guns and Gun Violence in America: Too Many Too Close, Cambridge College, MA, USA
Candid Canines, Dragon Gallery, Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines
SAB’R: Light a Dream, Institute for Peace and Development in Mindanao, Marawi City, Philippines

2017
2017 Art Fair Manila, Philippines
Collectionner, le désir inachevé, Musée d’Ang...