Manuel Ocampo – Curriculum Vitae

MANUEL OCAMPO

Born 1965 in Quezon City, the Philippines. Lives and works in Manila.

EDUCATION

1985
California State University, Bakersfield.

1984
University of the Philippines, Quezon City.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
The Beer Belly Masculinity Intensification Program or When Hangover Becomes Form. KalimanRawlins, Melbourne, Australia.
Rebels of abstraction and the ghost poo of painting. Galeria Adhoc, Vigo, Spain.
Contemporary Psychology and the Theoretical Steroid Defiled Modernist Chicken. Space of Drawings, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Gallery Zimmermann Kratochvill, Graz, Austria.

2010
An exhibition of collaborations with 7 imaginary friends showing a variety of painterly mishaps flaunted as majestic embellishments, Nosbaum & Reding – Art Contemporain, Luxembourg.
An Arcane Recipe Involving Ingredients Cannibalized from the Reliquaries of Some Profane Illumination, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY.
THE PAINTER’S EQUIPMENT, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore.

2009
Monuments to the Institutional Critique of Myself, Pablo Gallery, Manila.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium.
Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt, Germany.
200 War Stories by Ehren Tool (featuring a mural and installation by Manuel Ocampo), Bongout, Berlin, Germany.

2008
Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain.

2007
Guided by Sausage, Nosbaum & Reding – Art Contemporain, Luxembourg.
Guided by Sausage, Le (9) bis, Saint-Etienne, France.
Kitsch Recovery Program, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Finale Art File, Manila, Philippines.

2006
En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza sin Alcohol (with Curro Gonzalez), Galeria adhoc, Vigo, Spain.
Down with Reality, Galerie Jesco Von Puttkamer, Berlin, Germany.
Kitsch Recovery Program: An Image is Just a Pathetic Attempt to do Justice to a Picture, Nosbaum & Reding – Art Contemporain, Luxembourg.
No System Can Give the Masses the Proper Social Graces (with Damien Deroubaix), Haptic at La Maison Rouge, Paris, France.
Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York, NY.
Down with Reality, Galerie Jesco von Puttkamer, Berlin, Germany.

2005
Mumu Territorium, Artcenter Megamall, Mandaluyong Metro Manila, Philippines.
The Holocaustic Spackle in the Murals of the Quixotic Inseminators, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Bastards of Misrepresentation, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain.
New Works, LAC, Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France.

2004
Moral Stories: Fuck the Third World, Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain.
Bastards, Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt, Germany.
Finale Art File, Mega Mall, Mandaluyong, Philippines.
Miserable Intentions (with Gaston Damag), Art Contemporain – Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg.

2003
Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany.
Wunderkammer, Gesellschaft Für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg (Society for Contemporary Art Augsburg), Germany.
Lee Almighty, Mag:net Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines.

2002
An All Out Attempt at Transcendence, Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt, Germany.
Comprehensible Only to a Few Initiates, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France.
The Inadequacy of the Struggle Against the Inadequacy of the Struggle, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.

2001
Presenting the Undisclosed System of References in the Loophole of Misunderstanding, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico.
Free Aesthetic Pleasure Now!, Babilonia 1808, Berkeley, CA.

2000
Those Long Dormant Pimples of Inattention Counterattacking the Hyper-Convoluted Dramas of the Gaze, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Galerie Baerbel Grasslin, Frankfurt, Germany.
Those Long Dormant Pimples of Inattention Meandering through the Cranium Arcade of Pitiless Logic Swastikating between Love and Hate, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY.
The Stream of Transcendent Object-Making Consciously Working towards the Goal, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany.

1999
The Nature of Culture – Manuel Ocampo/Gaston Damag. Interventions in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain. (catalogue)
The Inversion of the Ideal: Navigating the Landscape of Intestinal Muck, Swastikating between Love and Hate, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid,Spain. (catalogue)

1998
To Infinity and Beyond: Presenting the Unpresentable – The Sublime or the Lack Thereof, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France.
Yo Tambien Soy Pintura, El Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain. (catalogue)
Why Must I Care For a Girl Who Always Scratches Wherever She Itches: 1-1/2 Centuries of Modern Art, Twelve Step Program, Delfina, London; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain. (catalogue)
Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany.

1997
Heridas de la Lengua, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. (catalogue)
Hacer Pintura Es Hacer Patria, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico. (catalogue)

1996
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY.

1995
Ciocca Raffaelli Arte Contemporaneo, Milan, Italy. (catalogue)
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France.
Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada.

1994
Paraiso Abierto a Todos, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Stations of the Cross, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY.

1993
New Paintings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries/Fred Hoffman, Beverly Hills, CA.
Manuel Ocampo, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico.

1992
Grupo de Gago, Weingart Center Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.
Matrix Berkeley 150, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

1991
M.J.O., Jay Chiat residence, New York, NY.
Manuel Ocampo, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

1990
Substancias Irritantes, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA.

1989
John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
The Onyx Café, Los Angeles, CA.

1988
Lies, Falls Hopes, and Megalomania, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Dublin Contemporary 2011: Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin, Ireland.

2010
Painting with a Hammer to Nail the Crotch of Civilization: A Group Show of Wall Works and Tattoo Imagery, Manila Contemporary, Makati City, Philippines.

2009
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany.

2008
Problems with style, Green Papaya Art Project, Manila, Philippines.
Magnet Gallery, Manila, Philippines.
In the context of : La dégelée Rabelais, organised by FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
Morts de rire, La Panacée, Montpellier, France.
Et tout pour les mange-tripes !, 
Musée Pierre André Benoit & Espace de Rochebelle, Alès, France.
A Thélème, Priape s’est cogné…,
 CIRCA – La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France.

2007
Rooms, Conversations, Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris, France.
L’Explosition, Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France.
Messages Abroad, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France.
Kinky Sex, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Nosbaum & Reding at Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany.

2006
Five Stories High, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Wonder and Horror of the Human Head, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Painting Codes, Galeria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Di Monfalcone, Italy.

2004
Birth – Sex – Death, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
La Alegria de mi Sueños, Seville Biennale, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea, Seville, Spain.

2003
End of the Start, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Broken Mirror, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY.

2002
Extranjeros: Los Otros Artistas Españoles, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain.
Disarming Parables: Collection Highlights, San Jose Museum of Art, CA.

2001
49. Esposizione Internazionale, Plateau of Mankind, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. (catalogue)
Berlin Biennale II, Berlin, Germany. (catalogue)
Les Chiens Andalous, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Vom Eindruck zum Ausdruck: Grässlin Collection (From Impression to Expression), Hamburg, Germany. (catalogue)
Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Museum of Art, CA.
Circos Globulos: Selected Works from the Babilonia Wilner Collection, Babilonia 1808, Berkeley, CA.

2000
Salon, Delfina, London, UK.
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millenium, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (catalogue)
Partage d’Exotismes, 5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France.
Sammlung Falckenberg (Falckenberg Collection), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany.
The Sensational Line, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO.

1999
Vestiges of War, 1899-1999: The Philippine-American War and Its Aftermath, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Gallery, New York University, NY.
Jardin de Eros, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina/Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain; Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway. (catalogue)
Sensibilidade Apocaliptica, Festival Atlantico ‘99, Lisbon, Portugal. (catalogue)

1998
At Home and Abroad: 21 Contemporary Filipino Artists, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. (catalogue)
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. (catalogue)
Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. (catalogue)
Cien Años Despues, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines; Puerto Rico; Havana, Cuba; Valencia, Spain. (catalogue)

1997
American Stories-Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. (catalogue)
Arte Chido!, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico.
Memories of Overdevelopment, Irvine Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA. (catalogue)
Nu-Glu, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY.
Past Time, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA.
Pervasive Referents, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY.
Unmapping the Earth, ‘97 Kwangju Biennial, Korea.
Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO.

1996
Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, Italy.

1995
Eye Tattooed America, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA.
In the Light of Goya, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Post-Colonial California, San Francisco State University, CA.

1994
Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, The Asia Society, New York, NY. (catalogue)
Icastica, Galeria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy. (catalogue)
Jean-Michel Basquiat & Manuel Ocampo, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Manuel Ocampo & Don Ed Hardy, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY.
Sacred and Profane, Studio Nosei, Rome, Italy.
Unholy Wars,Postmasters, New York, NY.

1993
43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Drawing the Line Against Aids, 45th Venice Biennial at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy. (catalogue)
In Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Beuna Gardens, San Francisco, CA. (catalogue)
Medialismo, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy. (catalogue)

1992
Documenta IX, Documentahallen, Kassel, Germany. (catalogue)
Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. (catalogue)

1991
Individual Realities in the California Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan. (catalogue)
Mike Bidlo, Manuel Ocampo, Andres Serrano, Saatchi Collection, London, UK.

AWARDS

1998
Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny Program.

1996
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts.

1995-96
Rome Prize in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome.

1995
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. par The Art Matters Foundation.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA.
The San Francisco Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain.
Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.
IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain.
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, (CAAM) Canary Islands, Spain.
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal.
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France.
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France.
Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris, France.
Museo Berado, Lisbon, Portugal.

SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

Manuel Ocampo, Bastards of Misrepresentation, Edicion Casia Asia, Barcelona, 2005.
Art Now, 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium, Taschen, Cologne, 2002.
Vitamin P, New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon, London, New York, 2002.
Les Chiens Andalous, Track 16 Gallery/Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, California, 2001.
Asian Collection 50, From the Collection of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 2000.
The Nature of Culture-Manuel Ocampo/Gaston Damag. Interventions in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, 1999.
The Inversion of the Ideal: Navigating the Landscape of Intestinal Muck, Swastikating between Love and Hate, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, 1999.
Why Must I Care For a Girl Who Always Scratches Wherever She Itches: 1-1/2 Centuries of Modern Art, Twelve Step Program, Delfina, London; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, 1999.
Yo Tambien Soy Pintura, Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain, 1998
Hacer Pintura es Hacer Patria, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, 1997
Heridas de la Lengua, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, 1997
Station to Station, Edizioni Programma, Cagliari, Italy, 1997
Virgin Destroyer: Manuel Ocampo, Hardy Marks Publications, Honolulu, 1994

MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS

Lussier, Real, Serie Projet 15: Manuel Ocampo, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, 1995.
Chagoya, Enrique, Notes for a Nonlinear Interpretation of the Work of Manuel Ocampo, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, 1994.
Enriquez, Lucia, Jean Michel Basquiat/Manuel Ocampo, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 1994.
Rinder, Lawrence, History and Retribution in the Art of Manuel Ocampo, University Art Museum, Berkeley, May-June, 1992.
Kent, Sarah, Mike Bidlo, Manuel Ocampo, Andres Serrano, Saatchi Collection, London, August, 1991.