Jayson Oliveria

Description

I mostly find my images for painting from books, magazines, the internet where every junk is also to be found. I find it also convenient to mine the internet for such for its very accessibility.  I don’t differentiate between images, nor place higher importance on any one of them. Everything flats out on the canvas, though some would be subjected to tweaking – modifying here and there, adding or deleting some parts of the image, based on the whimsy of the moment or what I thought would work for them as they are painted.  These images accumulate on the surface, layered each time by another image, or by a trace of a part of an image until it exhausts itself, the painted surface exhausts itself, the exhaustion as the denoument of a physical and mental exertion for this ineffable search which I also don’t have any idea what it is. The method of painting for me is more important, rather than its end. If the end is an abstraction then so be it,  a puzzle more tangled than ever by the questions that knot each other out or negate each other.  It’s all like getting a haircut from a salon only to end up messing it up all the more after you’ve stepped out the door , not being  happy with the barber or the faggy hairdresser has done to your hair.

Jayson Oliveria

Biography

Jayson Oliveria

1973 born in Manila (Philippines)

lives and works in Manila (Philippines)

1993-1994      University of the Philippines, Quezon City (RP)

1992-1993      Philippine Women's University, Manila (RP)

Exhibitions, projects (2000-2013, selection)

2013

Remove All Warning Labels, 1335Mabini, Manila (RP) (solo)

2012

overlooking, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz (AUT) (solo)

Picture Assembly, LOSTprojects, Quezon City, Manila (RP)

Bastards of Misrepresentation, Topaz Arts, New York (USA)

2011

ruined befor it hits the ground: Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz (Aut) (solo)

I MISS THE 20th CENTURY, Manila Contemporary, Manila (Philippines)

Complete & Unabridged Part II, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong (China)

2010

Bastards of Misrepresentation: Doing Time on Filipino Time, Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin (D)

Works on Paper Over Here, Fuck You Over There!, Mag:net Columns, Makati City (RP) (solo)

No Soul for Sale, Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City (RP) and Tate Turbine Hall, London (GB)

Mumbling Lessons for Retards, Prose Gallery, Makati City (RP)

Unnameable, Manila Contemporary, Makati City (RP)

2009

Schmuck Proof, Pablo Gallery, Taguig City (RP) (solo)

Things Said Amongst Us, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta (RI)

Here Be Dragons, Manila Contemporary, Makati City (RP)

Stick With the Enemy, Mo_space, Taguig City (RP)

2008

Spaceball, Ark Galerie (in collaboration with Drawing Room Manila), Jakarta (RI) (solo)

Zero Percent, Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City (RP)

Killing Things, The Cubicle, Pasig City (RP)

Room 307: Inkling, Gutfeel and Hunch, National Art Gallery, National Museum, Manila (RP)

2007

Answer in The Form of a Question, Finale Art File, Makati City (RP) (solo)

Find X, Mag:net Gallery, Quezon City (RP) (solo)

Pocket Monsters, Prose Gallery, Makati City (RP)

No System Can Give the Masses the Proper Social Graces, Firstdraft, Sydney (AUS)

God Captured Like Fossilised Dung (New Art from The Third World), Inflight, Tasmanien (AUS)

2006

Disoriented by an Aesthetic Experience, The Drawing Room, Makati City (RP) (solo)

Diagnostic Dogma, Finale Art File, Mandaluyong City (RP) (solo)

Missing Vocabularies, Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City (RP)

Conflict Resolutions, Future Prospects, Quezon City (RP)

Metropolitan Mapping, Exhibition Gallery, Hongkong Cultural Center, Hongkong (HK)

Relook: The Face of Philippine Contemporary Art, Utterly Art, Singapur (SGP)

Paint it Black, West Gallery, Quezon City (RP)

2005

Killa Foto, Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City (RP) (solo)

Attack Painter, The Drawing Room, Makati City (RP) (solo)

2004

Jayson Oliveria, curated by Mizuki Endo, Art Space Tetra, Fukuoka (J)

Instinct versus Learning, Mag:net Gallery, The Loop, ELJ Center, Quezon City (RP) (solo)

Critical Conditions: The 1st Ateneo Art Awards Exhibit, Ateneo Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City (RP)

The 1st BSM Annual Exhibit, Big Sky Mind Artists Projects Foundation, Quezon City (RP)

Building Bridges, Big Sky Mind, Quezon City (RP)

2003

Dog Show, UFO, Addition Hills, Pasig City (RP)

Satellite, Artists Compound, Quezon City (RP)

Under Construction, Big Sky Mind, Quezon City (RP)

Subject Matters, West Gallery, Makati City (RP)

New Works on Paper, The Drawing Room, Makati City (RP) (solo)

Picture This, Art Center, Mandaluyong City (RP)

Choreograph Blast, White Wall, University of the Philippines, Quezon City (RP)

2002

New Works on Paper, Drawing Room, Makati City (RP) (solo)

Portable Multiples, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapur (SGP)

Stripe, Cubao Artists Compound, Quezon City (RP)

Mainstream, Surrounded By Water, Quezon City (RP)

2001

Cool Pieties, Art Center, Mandaluyong City (RP)

Refractions, The Drawing Room, Makati City (RP) (solo)

Dominance and Submissions, Surrounded By Water, Mandaluyong City (RP)

2000

Anatomy of Directions, Surrounded By Water, Manila (RP) (solo)

True Confessions: Words, Thoughts, Acts, Art Center, Mandaluyong City (PR)

Stockroom, Surrounded By Water, Mandaluyong City (RP) (solo)

Grand Royale, Big Sky Mind, Quezon City (RP)