Josephine Turalba
Hometown: Manila
Based in: Manila and Boston
Josephine Turalba, based between Manila and Boston, is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates intersecting layers of different media: performance, sculpture, video, sound, and photography. Her works explore issues of divide and convergence between the Global North and South, focusing on visceral approaches to the politics of violence and dynamics of infliction, trauma– depicting traces and spaces, where empathy translates into healing.
Her works are in the collections of Yuchengco Museum Manila; Metropolitan Museum of Manila; Omer M. Koc Collection, Istanbul & London; Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York. They have been exhibited at the 2016 London Biennale, European Cultural Center in Venice, Italy (concurrent with the 56th Venice Biennale 2015) Hofburg Innsbruck, Austria 2015; Arter Space, Istanbul, Turkey 2014; VII Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art, Uzbekistan, 2013; Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany, 2012; M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2012; KIT Kunst-im-Tunnel Düsseldorf, Germany 2011; The 12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt 2010; and Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2007 and 2009.
She holds an MFA, New Media from Transart Institute NY and Donau Universität Krems Austria; is currently serving as Dean at the School of Fine Arts and Design at the Philippine Women’s University.
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Josephine Turalba In The Studio
"To inspire means to breathe life into - this is the essence of why I make art."
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What inspires you?
Nature, travel, and discovering other culture.
Describe your creative process.
I’m an interdisciplinary artist and art educator, based between Boston and Manila, who explores issues of divide and convergence within a volatile geo-political world order. My research and works reflect on the politics of violence and dynamics of infliction and trauma, depicting spaces where empathy translates into healing. I negotiate influences from different cultures, taking on an investigative approach to place and time, in relationship to a sense of self. My nomadic relation to various forms of media, including performance, installation, experimental video, photography, tapestry, and painting, allows me to explore my obsessions with socio-political narratives, myths, and personal histories.
What are 3 words that best describe your work?
Transformative, interdisciplinary, and inspiring.
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Credentials
Education
Transart Institute validated by Dönau University Krems
Austria, 2009
University of the Philippines Diliman
Philippines, 1988
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition High Wire High Seas
2020
Nine Dragon Heads in DMZ and JSA
2019
Solo Exhibition K9
2019
Violence Transformed
2019
Not Another Mother and Child
2019
Solo Exhibition Candid Canines
2018
Femi-flow Creating Female Subjectivity in Art
2018
SAB’R: Light a Dream
2018
Moving pledges: Art and action in Southeast Asia
2018
Guns and Gun Violence in America: Too Many Too Close
2018
6th Canakkale Biennial
2018
Taste The Future Collection
2017
Collectionner, le désir inachevé
2017
Curated By Federico de Veyra,
2017
Taste The Future Collection
2017
En Masse
2017
3.2.1.
2017
Taxi
2017
No Way Forward No Way Back,
2017
Papers and Layers
2016
2016 London Biennale
2016
Homeland
2016
Solo Exhibition Vagari
2016
Cairotronica
2016
Multiples
2016
Fusionera
2015
Studio 300 Digital Art and Music Festival 2015
2015
Handmade
2015
En Masse
2015
Caravanserraglio
2015
Speak Together
2015
Personal Structures
2015
Relative Realities
2014
Terms & Conditions, Simultan Festival #10
2014
Dornier
2014
Small is Beautiful
2014
Yesterday Once More
2014
Alay Sining 7: Art with a Heart
2014
The Roving Eye
2014
Mother Load, MET Open
2014
Solo Exhibition Fractured Focus
2014
Masterpieces: Asian Digital Art
2013
Pra Biennale – JOGJA International Mini Print Festival
2013
VII Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art: Different Cultures-One World
2013
Grounded
2013
Nuit Blanche
2013
Inside Out
2013
Hugot
2013
Untuned
2013
Six Pack Abs
2013
Pagtitipon
2013
Solo Exhibition Ricochet
2013
2nd Izmir International Biennal
2013
The Story of the Creative
2013
Solo Exhibition In Wonderland
2012
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2012
2012
Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia
2012
Connecting the Dots
2012
Human Frames, La Cinémathèque Française
2012
Werkstatt der Kulturen
2012
Nowheresville
2012
Earth Body Mind
2012
Where is The Here If The Here is In There?
2012
Not Festival
2011
Human Frames, La Cinémathèque Française
2011
Human Frames, La Cinémathèque Française
2011
Alay Sining 3: Art with a Heart
2011
Nothing to Declare
2011
Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia
2011
Re-Dress
2010
Constructing Secrets, Thoughts & Memories: Aspects of Postmodern Practice
2010
12th International Cairo Biennale
2010
Spaces in Between
2010
Tutok SONA Edukasyon
2009
Uncommon Sense (trauma, interrupted, too)
2009
The World Next Door,
2009
Solo Exhibition Open Season
2008
Solo Exhibition Hidden Tales
2008
Trajectories, Wooloo Productions
2008
Tutok Krisis: Kalunasan Anong K Mo?
2008
08.08.08 Britania Art Projects
2008
Corredor Gallery, CFA
2007
Solo Exhibition Exploits on the Dining Table
2007
Solo Exhibition Batanes Through the Lens
2003
Our Environment Today,
2002
Solo Exhibition Josephine Turalba Paintings and Photographs
1997
Solo Exhibition Living Tales
1995
Oil, Water and Clay
1990
Education
Transart Institute validated by Dönau University Krems
Austria, 2009
University of the Philippines Diliman
Philippines, 1988
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition High Wire High Seas
2020
Nine Dragon Heads in DMZ and JSA
2019
Solo Exhibition K9
2019
Violence Transformed
2019
Not Another Mother and Child
2019
Solo Exhibition Candid Canines
2018
Femi-flow Creating Female Subjectivity in Art
2018
SAB’R: Light a Dream
2018
Moving pledges: Art and action in Southeast Asia
2018
Guns and Gun Violence in America: Too Many Too Close
2018
6th Canakkale Biennial
2018
Taste The Future Collection
2017
Collectionner, le désir inachevé
2017
Curated By Federico de Veyra,
2017
Taste The Future Collection
2017
En Masse
2017
3.2.1.
2017
Taxi
2017
No Way Forward No Way Back,
2017
Papers and Layers
2016
2016 London Biennale
2016
Homeland
2016
Solo Exhibition Vagari
2016
Cairotronica
2016
Multiples
2016
Fusionera
2015
Studio 300 Digital Art and Music Festival 2015
2015
Handmade
2015
En Masse
2015
Caravanserraglio
2015
Speak Together
2015
Personal Structures
2015
Relative Realities
2014
Terms & Conditions, Simultan Festival #10
2014
Dornier
2014
Small is Beautiful
2014
Yesterday Once More
2014
Alay Sining 7: Art with a Heart
2014
The Roving Eye
2014
Mother Load, MET Open
2014
Solo Exhibition Fractured Focus
2014
Masterpieces: Asian Digital Art
2013
Pra Biennale – JOGJA International Mini Print Festival
2013
VII Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art: Different Cultures-One World
2013
Grounded
2013
Nuit Blanche
2013
Inside Out
2013
Hugot
2013
Untuned
2013
Six Pack Abs
2013
Pagtitipon
2013
Solo Exhibition Ricochet
2013
2nd Izmir International Biennal
2013
The Story of the Creative
2013
Solo Exhibition In Wonderland
2012
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2012
2012
Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia
2012
Connecting the Dots
2012
Human Frames, La Cinémathèque Française
2012
Werkstatt der Kulturen
2012
Nowheresville
2012
Earth Body Mind
2012
Where is The Here If The Here is In There?
2012
Not Festival
2011
Human Frames, La Cinémathèque Française
2011
Human Frames, La Cinémathèque Française
2011
Alay Sining 3: Art with a Heart
2011
Nothing to Declare
2011
Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia
2011
Re-Dress
2010
Constructing Secrets, Thoughts & Memories: Aspects of Postmodern Practice
2010
12th International Cairo Biennale
2010
Spaces in Between
2010
Tutok SONA Edukasyon
2009
Uncommon Sense (trauma, interrupted, too)
2009
The World Next Door,
2009
Solo Exhibition Open Season
2008
Solo Exhibition Hidden Tales
2008
Trajectories, Wooloo Productions
2008
Tutok Krisis: Kalunasan Anong K Mo?
2008
08.08.08 Britania Art Projects
2008
Corredor Gallery, CFA
2007
Solo Exhibition Exploits on the Dining Table
2007
Solo Exhibition Batanes Through the Lens
2003
Our Environment Today,
2002
Solo Exhibition Josephine Turalba Paintings and Photographs
1997
Solo Exhibition Living Tales
1995
Oil, Water and Clay
1990