LESLIE {espiritu} DE CHAVEZ
Born in Manila, Philippines, 1978
Lives and works in Tayabas / Lucban, Quezon
Philippines
Graduated at the University of the Philippines
BFA in Painting, 1999 (cum laude)
Represented by Arario Gallery (Seoul / Shanghai)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Higa sa Hangin (Lying Down in Air), Finale Art File, Makati City, Philippines
The Allegory of the Cave, Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China
2017 SaLang#1: Craft-Mine-Crap, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
2016 Stirring the Ashes, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila Philippines
The Sleep of Reason, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 Under the Influence, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
Unfolding Encounters, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
2013 Nameless Presence, Silverlens Gallery, Gillmans Singapore, Singapore
2011 God Is Busy, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
2010 Buntong Hininga, Silverlens Galleries, Manila, Philippines
2008 Banana Republic, Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Red-eyed Brother, Arario Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Leslie de Chavez, Arario Beijing, Beijing, China
2006 Tropical Delight, Window Gallery, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Ichimaseyo (Do Not Forget Me), Goyang Art Studio Gallery, Korea
2004 San Ysidro Dismayado, Pahiyas Festival, Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
2003 Bahid (Stain), Kulay Diwa Galleries, Manila, Philippines
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Yellow Ambiguities, Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Far Away But Strangely Familiar, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Slovakia
+63 / +62, Silverlens Galleries, Makati City Philippines
2018 Once I had a Vision, The Left Hand of Darkness, MO Space, BGC Taguig City, Philippines
SaLang, West Gallery, West Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines
2017 Voice of Asia, Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China
2016 Between the Street and the Mountain: Four Artists from the Philippines, Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China
2015 PaperViews 15: Rapid Cycling, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
The Vexed Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, St. Benilde, Manila
Asia Talk to Asia, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, South Korea
You Must Change Your Life, Equator Art Projects, Singapore
2014 Pulse, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
Really? Arario Museum in Space, Seoul, Korea
PaperViews 14: On Immanence, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
Multiple Languages, Silverlens Galleries, Manila, Philippines
Complicated, Lopez Memorial Museum, Manila, Philippines
Unbearable Lightness of Being, Finale Art File, Manila, Philippines
Concurrence, West Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2013 No Random Nonsense, Boston Gallery, Manila, Philippines
Singapore Biennale 2013: If the World Changed, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2012 Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Artists With Arario 3, Arario Gallery, Cheongdam, Korea
2011 3rd Asian Art Biennial: Meditation, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Rundgang 2011, Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany
Self Camera: Repositioning Modern Self, Changwon Asian Art Festival, Korea
We Was There, Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines
2010 Beacons of Archipelago, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
Nanjing Biennale, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Rainbow Asia, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Collection Show 2010, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Reflections, Bupyeong Art Center, South, Korea
Artists With Arario, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
2009 We Said Our Piece, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila
2008 3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing, China
2007 First Pocheon Asia Biennale, Pocheon, South, Korea
2006 Bikini in Winter, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
2005 Beppu Asia Biennale of Contemporary Art, Beppu Museum, Japan
2003 Urbanisasyon, Kulay Diwa Galleries, Manila, Philippines
Buklod, Kulay Diwa Galleries, Manila, Philippines
2002 Recent Works, Kulay Diwa Galleries, Manila, Philippines
Surface, Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2015 The Creative Campus, Liverpool Hope University (Residency Grant), Liverpool, United Kingdom
2014 Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art, Ateneo Art Gallery (Prize Winner), Philippines
2011 Leipzig International Art Programme (Residency Grant), Leipzig, Germany
2010 Goethe Institute, (Travel Grant, Art Forum 10), Berlin, Germany
Ateneo Art Awards, “Shattering States” (Prize Winner), Philippines
2007 Neo-Emerging Artists Residency, Dangsan Studio(Residency Grant), Seoul, Korea
2005 IASK Goyang Art Studio, Asian Artists Fellowship Program (Residency Grant), Korea
Beppu Asia Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, Beppu Art Museum, Japan
2003 Metrobank Foundation Young Painters’ Annual (2nd Prize)
1999 Oblecine: Film and Video Art Festival, University of the Philippines (Honorable Mention)
UP President’s Committee on Culture and Arts, 1st Film and Video Art Festival (3rd Prize)
1998 UP President’s Committee on Culture and Arts, Most Outstanding Student Artist
Gawad Chancellor, Student Achiever for National Competitions, University of the Philippines
ART-RELATED ACTIVITIES
2015 Director, First Lucban Assembly: Pamumuhunan, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
2014 Curator, PaperViews 14: On Immanence, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
Curator, Multiple Languages, Silverlens Galleries, Manila, Philippines
Curator, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Finale Art File, Manila, Philippines
2013 Collaborator, Southeast Asian Art Group Exchange Residency, Kuala Lumpur, Jogjakarta, Manila
2012 Collaborator, Southeast Asian Art Group Exchange Residency, Kuala Lumpur, Jogjakarta, Manila
2011 Collaborator, Southeast Asian Art Group Exchange Residency, Kuala Lumpur, Jogjakarta, Manila
Project Manager, We Was There, Yuchengco Museum, Philippines
2010 Collaborator, Seoksu Art Project, Supplement Space Stone & Water, Anyang, Korea
Project Manager, Reflections, Bupyeong Art Center, Incheon, Korea
2009 Project Manager, Plastic Syndrome, Artist Exchange & Exhibition, Art Space Plastic, Incheon, Korea
Project Coordinator, Artriangle, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2008 Project Coordinator, Tenggara: Recent Paintings from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Liverpool, UK
2007 Director, Project Space Pilipinas, Manila, Philippines (to date)
2005 Co-curator, First Dumaguete Open Biennial Terra Cotta Art Festival, Philippines
2004 Assistant curator, In Memory of a Talisman: The Works of Santiago Bose, Philippines
2003 Curator, Urbanisasyon, Kulay Diwa Galleries, Manila, Philippines