Lena Cobangbang

Description

I’m  a frustrated architect. All my projects, especially of late, are fueled by this frustration or I’m just inherently fascist, manipulative and obsessive. I like to control things. I like things to be in control, organized in their proper places.  I like to make-up worlds, scenarios to be these stages for all my other frustrations – aviator, city planner, chef, gourmand, actor, dictator – a molder of worlds that is palpable only as the surface of the picture.  But then again, I’m more of a philosopher of the senses. I would love to think that so.

Lena Cobangbang

Biography

Lena Cobangbang

1976 born in Manila (Philippines)

lives and works in Manila (Philippines)

1995-2002      University of the Philippines, Quezon City (RP)

Exhibitions, projects (selection, 2000-2010)

2010

The Care for Dead Horses, Finale Art File, Makati City (RP) (solo)

Minimum Yields Maximum, Montevista Projects, Los Ageles/California (USA)

2009

Bayanihan: works from Manila, Okay Mountain, Austin/Texas (USA)

Crater Valley Plateau, Finale Art File, Makati City (RP) (solo)

Beyond Frame, Philippine Photomedia, Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City (RP)

Here Be Dragons: Topology of Allegory, Manila Contemporary, Makati City (RP)

Serial Killers (2), Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City (RP)

Counter Intelligence, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles/California (USA)

2008

Singapore Bienniale08: Wonder, Singapore (SGP)

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

Cut, New Photography From Southeast Asia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Malaysia (MAL)

The Nomenclature Project, commissioned published work for Yason Banals’ special column series Utopia: Sleepwalking Project, Young Star section of The Philippine Star, Feb. 29, 2008 edition

Serial Killers, Green Papaya Artists Projects, Quezon City (RP)

Beyond frame: Philippine Photomedia, Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City (RP), La Trobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo (AUS), UTS Gallery, Sydney (AUS)

Passage 3, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto (J)

2007

Land, Galleria Duemila, Pasay City (RP)

3YC, Valentine Wille Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur (MAL)

Shoot Me, Mo_art Space, Makati City (RP)

2006

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

Conflict Resolutions, Future Prospects Art Space, Quezon City (RP)

Missing Vocabularies, Green Papaya, Quezon City (RP)

CCP 13 Artist Show, Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila (RP)

Postmodernism is So Last Season, Green Papaya, Quezon City (RP)

Collaborations (with Manuel Ocampo), Finale Art File, Mandaluyong City (RP)

Manila Envelope, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA (USA)

2005

All That Heaven Allows, Finale Art File, Mandaluyong City (RP) (solo)

You Are Here, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur (MAL)

Picturing Painting, Jorge Vargas Museum, Quezon City (RP)

2004

Closed for Inventory, The Cubicle, Pasig City (RP)

SENI/Homefronts, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (SGP)

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

2003

Projections, Lopez Memorial Museum, Pasig City (RP)

2002

Portable Multiples, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore (SGP)

Lighting Show, Photography Art Center, Makati City (RP)

A Feast of Conversations, Atelier Frank and Lee, Singapore (SGP)

Fixation: Notions of Obsession, Lopez Memorial Museum, Pasig City (RP)

2001

Space Meeting Place, Gallery 2, Ayala Museum, Makati City (RP)

Surrounded, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Pasay City (RP)

WOWB (Who Owns Women's Bodies), Cultural Center of the Philippines, Pasay City (RP)

Stockroom, Surrounded By Water, Mandaluyong City (RP)

2000

Video – Take, Openbare Bibliotheek van  Leuven, Brussels (B)

Search and Destroy Missions, Kitchen, Mandaluyong City (RP), Surrounded By Water, Mandaluyong City (RP)

Paper Over, Ayala Museum, Makati City (RP)