alwin reamillo is a contemporary artist from the philippines who has garnered global recognition for his cross-disciplinary works, including installations, sculptures, and other community engagement initiatives. with a body of work that has been consistently added to for over 30 years, alwin has been featured in exhibitions around the world. his works primarily focus on the critique of colonialism, globalization, and societal issues within the philippines, inviting audiences to discuss their own views on the issues.

 

alwin has been actively presented in australia and the philippines and has participated in exhibition and collaborative project nationally and internationally including taiwan, japan, and thailand. he was awarded with freeman foundation for asian artist fellowship, vermont studio center, the usa in 1996 and thirteen artists awards, cultural center of the philippines in 1994.

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solo exhibitions

2023    public art commission for dianchi terroir international exchange, 2023 dianchi lake art festival

2023    the lost supper supper club, jing jai gallery, chiang mai, thailand

2020   linea divisoria, your mother gallery, singapore

2019    pian o fort e, altro mondo creative space, manila

2018    bayanihan hopping spirit house; open space, ayala museum etudes: alwin reamillo; west gallery, quezon city

2021    fifth twin, twenty one ( my favourite things ), eskinita art farm, tanauan, batangas

2016    harkat: journey of discovery and art/ artist residency /community art project @ canalside communitycentre, burnley, uk

2015    juanita, herzog, jambalambibe & associates invite you to unhedged, tin-aw art gallery, makati city

2014    mise en (matched) scene; west gallery, quezon city

2013    re:quiem para un arpicembalo di bartolomeo cristofori di nuovo invention che fail piano e il forte: objects + reliquaries +                
           installation; nova art gallery, manila

2011     re:played by ear; art informal, manila ang balutviand: manila-hong kong-manila; tin-aw art gallery, manila

2010     thuringowa helicopter project / kultour 2009; festival of darwin, stokes hill wharf, darwin + the substation ( hobsons bay                
            community arts centre ), melbourne, australia

2009    play by ear i + ii, galleria duemila, manila

2008    nicanor abelardo grand piano project; jorge b vargas museum + filipiniana research center, university of the philippines,                 
            manila play by ear (oido); gallery east, east fremantle, western australia

2007    thuringowa helicopter project; pinnacles gallery, riverway arts centre, townsville, queensland, australia mang emo,

            mag-himo grand piano project; cultural center of the philippines + galleria duemila, manila + fremantle arts

            centre, western australia

2004    ang viand ( mackilling me microsoftly with e-saw ); tambayang makiling, manila

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group exhibitions

2021    noventa, eskinita art gallery, makati city

2019    polyphony: southeast asia, art museum of nanjing university of the arts when does the dancer become the dance, art                        
           informal, quezon city concept context contestation yangon: art and the collective in south east asia; the secretariat, yangon.

2018    two houses: politics and history in the contemporary art collections of john chia and yeap lamyang, institute of                                
           contemporary arts singapore. back to the drawing room; up college of fine arts gallery foyer, quezon city.

            mga bagong kristo sa lumang simboryo; art informal, quezon city open city: manila biennale 2018; intramuros, manila

2017    at ang bulung-bulungang de-cajon ni mang imo, budang wayang at arnulfotikb-ang; pinaglabanan art galleries, manila.

2016    permetuan/ encounter: art from different lands / sea + triennale; national gallery of indonesia, jakarta.

            concept, context, contestation: art and the collective in south east asia (touring exhibition); cemeti art house, yogyakarta.

            transmission; tin-aw art gallery, makati city.

2015     wasak! filipino art today; arndt berlin, germany doors to perception or high art; tin-aw art gallery, makati city.

            chromatext rebooted; bulwagang juan luna, cultural center of the philippines, manila. sculpture by the sea bondi 2015;                    
            tamarama beach, new south wales.

2014     the roving eye: contemporary art from southeast asia; arter/space for art, istanbul maynila: maalinsangan ang gabi,                          
            mahapdiang araw / the night is restless, the day is scornful; arndt singapore makiling x, corredor gallery; university of the              
            philippines college of fine arts, quezon city concept, context, contestation: art and the collective in southeast asia; bangkok                        art & culture centre, thailand

2013     masterpieces: asian digital art exhibition; ayala museum, makati city. practice & participate: neighborhood art project; urban 

            theatre projects, bankstown art centre, nsw 3r artcamp / colors per al planeta; unesco paris + counseil de l’europe 

            headquarters strasbourg, france + unesco regional bureau for science and culture, palazzo zorri, venice, italy the president’s

            office; up vargas museum + filipiniana center, manila 2012 3r artcamp / trobada internacional d’ artistes ordino; unesco 

            andorra post no bill; manila contemporary + tin-aw art gallery, manila imagining identity: 100 filipino self portraits (a

            selection from the paulino que collection) ; finale art file, manila

2012     3r artcamp / trobada internacional d’ artistes ordino; unesco andorra post no bill; manila contemporary + tin-aw art gallery,

            manila imagining identity: 100 filipino self portraits (a selection from the paulino que collection) ; finale art file, manila

2011     nothing to declare; up vargas museum + filipiniana center, manila beyond the self: contemporary portraiture from asia;   

            national portrait gallery, canberra; mcclelland gallery + sculpture park; anne & gordon samstag museum of art, south

            australia; museum and art gallery of the northern territory, darwin, australia

2010    clouds + wings: alwin reamillo + juliet lea; manila contemporary, manila making history: how southeast asian art     

            reconquers the past to conjure the future; jendela gallery, the esplanade, singapore remix: santiago bose; yuchengco

            museum + tin-aw art gallery, manila

2009    seeing you seeing me: contemporary portraiture; manila contemporary, manila making it new: focus on contemporary 

            australian art; museum of contemporary art, sydney, australia thrice upon a time: a century of story in the art of the

            philippines; singapore art museum

2008    tutubing bakal helicopter project (in collaboration with madeleine challender, veronika milhaj, john bradshaw, lea 

            macmanus); museo pambata / children’s museum, manila bayan ni nanding versus the postmodern world; manila 

            contemporary, manila

2007    echoes of home: memory and mobility in recent austral/asian art; fremantle arts centre, geraldton regional art gallery,     

            western australia dime a dozen, lopez memorial museum, manila musubitsuki : japanese images/ thematics in philippine

            art; metropolitan museum of manila

2005    echoes of home: memory and mobility in recent austral/asian art; museum of brisbane, queensland, australia 3rd fukuoka 

            asian art triennale : parallel realities; fukuoka asian art museum, japan

2003    national sculpture prize & exhibition (in collaboration with roselin eaton), national gallery of australia, canberra

            the prospect portrait prize; city of prospect gallery, south australia

2001    amsterdam-darwin-leeuwarden; steendrukkerij amsterdam, holland

1999    imagining: art of the twentieth century*, art gallery of western australia, perth labinlima, metroplitan museum of manila

            vestiges of war; asian/pacific/american studies gallery, new york university, usa

1997     el individuo y su memoria / sexta bienal de la habana*; casa de asia, centro historico, havana, cuba economies of salvation/

            reamillo y julieta at the verge*; verge gallery, perth, western australia

1998    the bridge: construction in process vi; melbourne, australia the edge of awareness*; organisation mondiale de la sante a 

            geneve, switzerland; united nations headquarters, new york; sesc pompeia, sao paolo, brazil at home and abroad: 20

            contemporary filipino artists*; asian art museum of san francisco, usa; the contemporary arts museum, houston, usa; 

            university of hawaii at manoa art gallery, usa; metropolitan museum of manila (1999) cinco continentes y una ciudad*; 

            museo de la ciudad de mexico, mexico city

1996    the spiritual and the social: nine artists from thailand, indonesia and the philippines; gold coast city art gallery, toowoomba

            regional art gallery, rockhampton city art gallery, cairns regional gallery, gladstone regional art gallery and museum, 

            stanthorpe art gallery, queensland, australia above and beyond: austral/asian interactions; australian centre for

            contemporary art, melbourne; institute of modern art, brisbane; 24hr art/northern territory centre of contemporary art,

            darwin (1997); canberra contemporary art space, act

1995     thirteen artists 1994*, cultural center of the philippines, manila

1994     buyon-buyon, baguio convention center, philippines philippine-thai-australian artists exchange*, concrete house, nonthburi,

            thailand blackhole*, manila film center, philippines 

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festival and biennial

2022    alwin reamillo | bangkok art biennale 2022

2015    artist making movement: asian art biennial 2015; national taiwan museum of fine arts, taichung festival and biennial

2014    malasimbo music and art festival 2014; mt. malasimbo, puerto galera, mindoro oriental

2012    malasimbo music and art festival 2012; mt. malasimbo, mindoro oriental, philippines

2006   third fukuoka asian art triennale: asian art now; blackburn museum and art gallery, uk

2005   third fukuoka asian art triennale : parallel realities; fukuoka asian art museum, japan

2004   jandamarra crossing / 2004 perth international arts festival; fremantle arts centre, western australia

1995    transculture/ biennale di venezia 1995*, palazzo giustinian lolin, venice

1993    fourth baguio international arts festival: salubungang agos (cross currents)*, baguio convention center, philippines

 

art fair

2021    class room installations, jstudio hq @ art fair philippines 2021, las piñas city

2019    art fair philippines 2019/ yod gallery, the link, makati city 

2015    alwin reamillo @ j studio ( booth 34 ); art fair philippines 2015,the link, makati city

2000   melbourne artfair 2000 / john batten gallery; the royal exhibition building, melbourne, australia

2006   melbourne artfair 2006; john batten gallery/ the royal exhibition building, melbourne, australia

2002   difficult and desperate times/ art03: the western australia contemporary art fair; fremantle arts centre/ fremantle passenger 

            terminal, western australia

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formed artistic partnership with juliet lea as reamillo & juliet in 1993

1988    chromatext; pinaglabanan art galleries, manila

1987     ang6: mga senyas-kamay at iba pang kwentong bayan; pinaglabanan art galleries, manila 1986 young art, cultural center of 

            the philippines, manila formed artistic partnership with juliet lea as reamillo & juliet* in 1993

1985    third asean youth painting workshop and exhibition, indonesian institute of art yogyakarta, indonesia

 

 

awards and distinctions

2016     action factory community arts / a super slow way artist residency, burnley, lancashire, uk, 2016

2014     bellas artes projects artist residency program, las casas filipinas de acuzar, bagac, bataan, 2014

2013     artist residency, akiyoshidai international art village, yamaguchi, japan

            bellas artes projects artist residency program, las casas filipinas de acuzar, bagac, bataan,

2013     3rd artcamp / trobada internacional d’ artistes ordino, unesco andorra.           

2011     artist in residence, hong kong artwalk 2011, hong kong

2009    artist in residence, plaay (contemporary asian art in blackburn programme) blackburn museum & art gallery + action factory 

            community arts, uk.

2008    artswa mid-career fellowship, department of culture and the arts, government of western australia

            4x4: hong kong international artists workshop 2008, air association limited, hong kong

2007    asialink visual arts residency grant (manila), university of melbourne, victoria, australia

2005    artist in residence (july-october), fukuoka asian art museum, japan

2005   artist in residence (may-june),manukau school of visual arts, manukau institute of technology, auckland, new zealand

2004   artswa artflight grant for the future of imagination ii, international performance art festival, sculpture square, singapore

            award for continuing excellence and service (aces),

2004   metrobank foundation of the philippines

2003   the 3rd prospect portrait prize, city of prospect gallery, south australia (finalist)

2003   national sculpture prize & exhibition (in collaboration with roselineaton),national gallery of australia, canberra

2001    artist in residence, counihan gallery in brunswick, melbourne, australia

2001    artist in residence, 24hr art/ northern territory centre for contemporary art, darwin, australia

            melbourne fringe visual arts award, melbourne fringe festival, australia

            artswa artflight grant for semena santa cruxtations (manila-hong kong)

            development grant for semena santa cruxtations/ manila-darwin-fremantle visual arts/ craft fund, australia council for the 

            arts

2000   project grant for semena santa cruxtations/ manila,

1999    metrobank foundation of the philippines

            vincent award, 2000 town of vincent art award, wa

            project grant for participation at asiatopia ii: bangkok international performance art festival, metrobank foundation the   

            philippines

1996    freeman foundation for asian artists fellowship, vermont studio center,usa

1994    thirteen artists award, cultural center of the philippines, manila

1992    fifth cultural center of the philippines alternative cinema & video competition (collaborative experimental video)

1991     fourth cultural center of the philippines alternative cinema & video competition (collaborative experimental video)

1986    third national metrobank foundation painting competition, manila

1983    36th annual art association of the philippines competition, manila

            melquiades m. castro talent scholarship, university of the philippines, quezon city

1981     philippine high school for the arts scholarship

 

collections

sherman contemporary art foundation

museo pambata foundation collection

national taiwan museum of fine arts

fukuoka asian art museum

singapore art museum

queensland art gallery

art gallery of western australia

royal perth hospital

cultural center of the philippines

bencab museum, philippines

bellas artes projects, philippines

private collections in the philippines, singapore, japan, australia,

new zealand, hong kong