Mijan Jumalon
Philippines
MIJAN JUMALON comes from a family of painters from the southern part of the Philippines in Mindanao....
About the artist
Mijan Jumalon
Joined In 2023
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About the artist
Mijan Jumalon
Joined In 2023
(1 Followers)
ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
MIJAN JUMALON comes from a family of painters from the southern part of the Philippines in Mindanao. She has spent 3 decades as a visual artist and has had numerous art exhibitions launched in many parts of the country in Manila, Davao, Cebu, as well as abroad, in Rome and in Singapore.
Mijan Jumalon has embraced the female form in her 30 years of painting and have seldom departed from it. It is her anchor, beacon, and starting point. Though her works often interconnect with feminist social issues, her figures are more representative of the earnest exploration and elevation of the rituals of womanhood.
Her latest series of works—BAGGAGE REVOLUTION—form a multiptych, an entire landscape of forked pathways pushing their way through the crimson prairie. The environment and its residents approximate an almost Boschian performance with its subjects enacting a melancholy gathering. There is a scattering of figures in owl masks (a Bosch motif) that lends an occultic feel to these paintings. There is, however, no narrational structure formed nor themes of moral struggle. The environment is not a garden of earthly delight but rather a realm where everyone is waiting for something to end or something to begin.
In 2019, Mijan began venturi...
AB Philosophy, 2003
Education, 2018
ART EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2022
“BAGGAGE REVOLUTION”
Qube Gallery, Cebu
2018
“POSTCARDS FROM HIGH COUNTRY”
Ateneo de Zamboanga University Gallery
2016
“STILL”
Qube Gallery, Cebu City
2013
“WATCHWOMAN”
QUBE GALLERY, Cebu City
2010
“QUEEN BUILDING – Dumaguete”
Silliman University, Dumaguete City
2010
“QUEEN BUILDING”
ORANGE GALLERY, Bacolod City
2002
“SCAPE”
Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila
1999
“WOMB”
Zamboanga City
FILM AWARDS
2022
BEST PITCH
Zamboanga Hermosa Pitching Competition (Philippines)
“TALITA” (a short film script by Mijan Jumalon)
BEST FILM
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST SCREENPLAY
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Zamboanga Film Festival (Philippines)
“OLA” (a short film by Mijan Jumalon)
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Gandhara Independent Film Festival (Pakistan)
“OLA” (a short film by Mijan Jumalon)
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Women Internation Film Festival (Nigeria)
“OLA” (a short film by Mijan Jumalon)
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Northern Mindanao Film Festival (Philippines)
“OLA” (a short film by Mijan Jumalon)
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Kultura Film Festival (Philippines)
“MAGLABAY RA IN SAKIT”
(A short documentary on the Life and work o...