Imelda Cajipe Endaya

Born 1949 in Manila, Philippines.

I am daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, citizen and artist. Art is both personal and social. My concern is to continuously explore new forms, materials, and ways of seeing issues of power. Art is a personal search, yet it must be synthesized with a collective consciousness of a peoples history largely forgotten by the globalized world. I want my art to be a voice for women and children.

I make images from materials from home---my grandmothers shawl, my mothers crochet, my aunts veil, my beaded slippers, my childhood clothes. They are mementoes of nurturing by women in my family. I use them in my art to address concerns like cultural identity, globalization, the permanence of war, and environmental degradation. I like my work to reflect the Asian-Pacific woman, gaining mobility and fulfillment for herself, as she strives to live meaningfully for others.

Bachelor of Fine Arts & graduate studies in Art History, University of the Philippines (UP)

Selected Bibliography 2010: Flaudette May V. Datuin, Alter/(n)ations in the Art of Imelda Cajipe Endaya, University of the Philippines Press; 2009: Flores, Datuin, Koterbay, Defeo and Lolarga, Imelda Cajipe Endaya Stitching Paint Into Collage, Manila and New York: LRSLim Foundation for the Arts, 80 pages; 2008: Benjamin Genocchio, Piecing Things Together, New York Times, NYC, October 19, p. WE-10; 2008: Flaudette May V. Datuin, 'Uncommon Sense, Paradoxa, Vol.21, London, KT Press;2000: Alice Guillermo, An Enlightened Perspective, Asian Art News, Hong Kong,Jan/Feb, pp. 61-65;1998: Thomas Yeo and Emmanuel Torres, South East Asian Art: A New Spirit, Art & Artist Speak, Singapore; 1998: Kevin Power et al, Cien Anos Despues, Valencia, Spain: Generalitat Valenciana 1997: Shioda Junichi, A Vision of What Art Should Be, and Isako Kumagai, Commentary on the Artist, Art in Southeast Asia: Glimpses into the Future, Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; 1997: Vibhuti Patel, Shattering Stereotypes, Newsweek, February 3, p.52 1997: Michael Scott, Contemporary Artists Create New Tradition from Asia, The Vancouver Sun, April 24, pp. C-1 & C8 ;1996: ...

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2011: Alter/(n)ations, Liongoren Gallery, QC
2010: Traces UP Vargas Museum
2007: Executive Gallery, Goshen, New York
2006: United Nations Headquarters, New York
2006: Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, New Jersey
2005: Liongoren Art Gallery Manila
2004: Hiraya Gallery Manila,
2003: Ayala Museum, Manila
2002: The Drawing Room, Manila
2000: Galleria Duemila, Manila
1999: Espace Exposition du CRIC, Sierre, Switzerland
1995: National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Manila
1988: Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), Manila

International Biennial/Triennial of Contemporary Art:
1993: First Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1992: Ninth Biennial of Sydney, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010-11: Tutok: Ano Bayani!, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila
Bozzetos, Auditorium Al Duomo, Florence, and UP Bulwagan ng Dangal
2010: Faith and Reason, Manila Contemporary
After the Fact, Lopez Memorial Museum
2009: Beautiful Aging, United Hebrew-Lazarus Gallery, New Rochelle, New York
Password: Art’s Secret Symbols, ASCA, Broome St. Gallery, NY, NY
2008: Collage Logic, Ann St. Gallery, Newburgh, ...