Patrick Flores

Biography

Patrick Flores is concurrently Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines and Deputy Director (Curatorial and Research) of the National Gallery Singapore. He is the Director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network. He served as curator of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2022), Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale (2019), and curator of the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2015).

His publications include Raymundo Albano: Texts (2017); Art After War: 1948-1969 (The Modern Reader, Philippines, 2015); Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (NUS Museum, Singapore, 2008) and Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art (National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 1999).

He was a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2014) and Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (1999). He was a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council (2010) and a member of the Advisory Board of the exhibition The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 (2011) organised by the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and member of the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council (2011 and 2014).

He has received degrees in humanities, art history, and Philippine studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

Born in 1969, in Iloilo City, Flores lives and works between Manila and Singapore.

SAF participation:
March Meeting 2023