Patrick Flores

Patrick Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines Department of Art Studies, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003, and Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila. He was one of the curators of Under Construction: New Dimensions in Asian Art in 2000 and the Gwangju Biennale (Position Papers) in 2008. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999 and an Asian Public Intellectuals Fellow in 2004.

Among his publications are Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art (1999); Remarkable Collection: Art, History, and the National Museum (2006); and Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (2008).

He was a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council (2010) and a member of the Advisory Board of the exhibition The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 (2011) organized by the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and member of the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council (2011 and 2014). He co-edited the Southeast Asian issue with Joan Kee for Third Text (2011). In 2013 he convened the conference “Histories of Art History in Southeast Asia” in Manila, on behalf of the Clark Institute and the Department of Art Studies of the University of the Philippines. He was a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2014. He curated an exhibition of contemporary art from Southeast Asia and Southeast Europe titled South by Southeast and the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015. He was the Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale 2019.

(From press information.
© Photo: Courtesy of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum)

Taiwan
59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

23 April - 27 November 2022

Title: Impossible Dreams

Organizer: Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Convener of International Forums: Patrick Flores

Venue: Palazzo delle Prigioni