Visual artist Lizza May David studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and Visual Communication/Media Art at the University of Arts Berlin. Much of her previous work stems from her biography and investigates issues of identity, labor/migration and memory. Her paintings today reflect her contextual artistic disposition, understanding the canvas as a sensorium for subjective and collective issues.
1975 Born in Quezon City, PH
Lives and works in Berlin, DE
EDUCATION
1999
Fine Arts, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, FR
2000
Fine Arts, class of Prof. Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, DE
2006
Media Arts, Meisterschüler 2008, University of Arts, Berlin, DE
SOLO EXHIBITONS
2016
Mangrove, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, DE
2015
Umwelt, Galeria Duemila, Manila, PH
2014
Tabula Rasa, 1335mabini Studios, Manila, PH
Artist Unknown, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, PH
2012
On Surface, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila, PH
2008
The Model Family Award, Galerie Metro, Berlin, DE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2018
VIVA EXCON 2018, the Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference, Roxas City, PH
INCARNATOR: MINIATURE VIEWING ROOM, Bellas Artes Projects - Outpost, Makati, PH
PRECURSE, Curated by John Hodany, Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US
Bastards of Misrepresentation - Planet Merde, Galerie Melike Bilir, Hamburg, DE
Paintings must be meaningful, Pinto Art Museum, Rizal, PH
2017
SCOPE:Pingpong, Space Ppong, Gwangju, KR
SONIC SOUNDINGS, VENICE TRAJECTORIES, Venice, IT
Digging For Fire, Art Anton, Pasay City, PH
2016
Never Shown on Purpose, Circle1, Berlin, DE
They have come to escort me on the dangerous pathway of the intermediate state, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (AMNUA), Jiangsu, CN
Graduale 16: No new kind of Duck, Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, DE
Abortion of Cute, 8.Salon, Hamburg, DE
TRIAS, NON Berlin, DE
Don´t Panic It´s Organic, Galerie Zimmermann-Kratochwill, Graz, AT
Topsy Turvy, Finale Art File, Manila, PH
Electric Bulalo: Painting in Exile, Vinyl on Vinyl Gallery, Manila, PH
2015
Ugat-Agos, NON Berlin, DE
Stop look listen, 1335mabini, Manila, PH
Exoten-AdAptation_AdOption, WARP, Sint-Niklaas, BE
Contemporary Transnational Journeys and Liaisons, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, PH
Cycles of Care - screening, W3, Hamburg, DE
Mai im Januar, Schau Fenster, Berlin, DE
2014
IWF Mördertreff, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
They have come to escort me on the dangerous pathway of the intermediate state, Power Station of Art, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
PRO TEST SONG TEST, Litmus Community Space, Seoul (artist group Global Alien), KR
Kunst ist keine Privatmeinung, Zimma, Berlin, DE
They have come to escort me on the dangerous pathway of the intermediate state, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, CN
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, DE
Brave New Worlds, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, PH
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, AT
2013
Collective Diary, Space Mass, Seoul, KR
Cold candy crush saga, Hinterconti, Hamburg, DE
The Oracle: What is your prophecy for the future?, The Wand, Berlin, DE
Defile, Galeria Duemila, Manila, PH
TEXT, tête, Berlin, DE
YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila, PH
Migration/ Integration/ Diversity, Galerie “Zwischenraum”, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, DE
2012
Rebus New York, Emely Harvey Foundation, New York, US
Compounds of a Prism, another vacant space, Berlin, DE
Hauser XI, LOFT, Ansbach, DE
Scrutiny Mutiny, Gartenstudio, Berlin, DE
2011
Being on the move: Reflections on migration, Litmus Community Space, Seoul, KR
nothing2declare, Blanc Compound, Manila, PH
Endlos Umstritten, Ewig Schön, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, DE
Touch Me, Hiraya Gallery, Manila, PH
the power to host, iscp, New York, US
The American Dream, Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon, US
Mothering, Domestic and Private, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2010
Bastards of Misrepresentation, Doing Time on Filipino Time, Freies Museum Berlin, DE
Tongue, Beyond Belonging: Translocal, Tongue Laden, Berlin, DE
Asian Women‘s Filmfestival, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, DE
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2014-16
Stipend, Fellowship Graduate School for the Arts, Berlin University of the Arts
2014
Global Exchange Grant, Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department
2013
Exhibition funding | ifa - Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations
2011
Travel grant, Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department
2007-08
NaföG grant (Landesgraduiertenförderung des Senats Berlin)
2007
DAAD (travel grant in combination with NaföG)
Sodaart/Nomad: Artist in Residency Villa Arson/Nice and Vienna
PRESENTATIONS, OTHER ROLES AND PROJECTS
2018
L-STELLEN, Performance-Workshop, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, DE
2017
Presentation, House of Memories, Trandisciplinary workshop/symposium, Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne, DE
2015
Initiator, Salon for Aesthetic Experiments: Tropes in Painting, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Initiator, Philippine Studies Series Berlin "Moments and Gestures: Capturing Subject and Gender in Phililippine Cinema", Graduate School, University of Arts, Berlin, DE
2014
Presentation, Soongshil University, Seoul, KR
2013
Performance and artist talk, Cultural Centre of the Philippines, Manila, PH
Artist talk, ArtSpeak Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila, PH
2012
Essay, Unfixed - Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art
Presentation (for Global Alien), Where we meet: Cultural Translation and Art in Social Transformation, ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Werkstatt für Kulturen, Berlin, DE
Presentation, As in Shop, Manila, PH
2011
Curator Philippines, Asian Filmfestival Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Lecture at Class of Linda Wysong, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, US
2009
Workshop and Presentation, with Myriam Eckart, Tongue Laden, Berlin, DE
Presentation, Migration, East Asian Identity and Environmental Diplomacy, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD), Berlin, DE
2008
Presentation, Teams & Subjects - Über Autorschaft in Künstlergruppen, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Sophiensäle, Berlin, DE (for Global Alien)
Artist talk, We aren't commodities for sale - Filipino Overseas Workers in Japan and Hongkong, Talk and screenings by Kaoru Yoneyama, Moira Zoitl and Lizza May David, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
