Manuel Ocampo

Biography

Born 1965 Quezon City, Philippines

Lives and works Quezon City, Philippines

Education

1985 

• California State University, Bakersfield

1984 

• University of the Philippines, Quezon City

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008

• the tragicomic gravitational destiny of the conscious stricken world of a painter's limp wrist, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne.

2007

• KITSCH RECOVERY PROGROM, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles.

2006

• Manuel Ocampo, Gray/Kapernekas, New York.
• In heaven there’s no non-alcoholic beer, collaboration with Curo Gonzalez, Adhoc Galeria, Vigo, Spain.
• Kitsch Recovery Program: An Image is Just a Pathetic Attempt to do Justice to a Picture, Alimentation Generale, Art Contemporain Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg.
• Down with Reality, Galerie Jesco Von Puttkamer, Berlin.

2005

• Bastards of Misrepresentation, Casa Asia, Barcelona.
• The Holocaustic Spackle in the Murals of the Quixotic Inseminaters, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles.
• Problems with Style, Art Center, Mandaluyong, Philippines.
• New Works, LAC (Lieu d'Art Contemporain), Sigean, France.

2004

• Moral Stories: Fuck the Third World, Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain.
• Bastards, Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt.
• Finale Art File, Art Center, Mega Mall, Mandaluyong, Philippines.
• Miserable Intentions (with Gaston Damag), Alimentation Generale Art Contemporain, Luxembourg.

2003

• Wunderkammer, Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg, Germany.
• Lee Almighty, Mag:net Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines.
• The Inadequacy of the Struggle Against the Inadequacy of the Struggle, Sprüth Magers Projecte, Munich

2002

• An All Out Attempt at Transcendence, Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt.
• Comprehensible Only to a Few Initiates, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris.
• The Inadequacy of the Struggle Against the Inadequacy of the Struggle, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco.

2001

• Presenting the Undisclosed System of References in the Loophole of Misunderstanding, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Free Aesthetic Pleasure Now! Babilonia 1808, Berkeley, California.

2000

• Those Long Dormant Pimples of Inattention Counterattacking the Hyper-Convoluted Dramas of the Gaze, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, and Galerie Bärbel, Grässlin, Frankfurt.
• Those Long Dormant Pimples of Inattention Meandering through the Cranium Arcade of Pitiless Logic Swastikating between Love and Hate, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
• The Stream of Transcendent Object-Making Consciously Working towards the Goal, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt.

1999

• The Nature of Culture--Manuel Ocampo/Gaston Damag, interventions in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville.
• The Inversion of the Ideal: Navigating the Landscape of Intestinal Muck, Swastikating between Love and Hate, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid.

1998

• To Infinity and Beyond: Presenting the Unpresentable—The Sublime or the Lack Thereof, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris.
• Yo Tambien Soy Pintura, El Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain.
• Why Must I Care For a Girl Who Always Scratches Wherever She Itches: 1-1/2 Centuries of Modern Art Twelve Step Program, Delfina, London; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona; Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne.

1997

• Heridas de la Lengua, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
• Hacer Pintura Es Hacer Patria, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico.

1996

• Annina Nosei Gallery, New York.

1995

• Ciocca Raffaelli Arte Contemporaneo, Milan.
• Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris.
• Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal.

1994

• Paraiso Abierto a Todos, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco.
• Stations of the Cross, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York.

1993

• New Paintings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries/Fred Hoffman, Beverly Hills, California.
• Manuel Ocampo, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico.

1992

• Grupo de Gago, Weingart Center Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles.
• Matrix—Berkeley 150, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California.

1991

• M.J.O. Jay Chiat residence, New York.
• Manuel Ocampo, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, California.

1990

• Substancias Irritantes, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, California.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007

• Messages Abroad, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris
• Kinky Sex (Makes the World Go 'Round), Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles
• The Wonder and Horror of the Human Head, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles
• Five Stories High: Georganne Deen, Llyn Foulkes, Manuel Ocampo, Alan Rath & Raymond Pettibon, Track 16, Los Angeles

2005

• Bastards of Misrepresentation, Casa Asia, Barcelona.

2004

• La Alegria De Mis Suenos, Seville Biennal, Seville.
• Change of Address, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles.
• Birth - Sex – Death, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.

2003

• Ten by Twenty, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
• The Broken Mirror, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York.

2002

• Extranjeros: Los Otros Artistas Españoles, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain.
• Disarming Parables: Collection Highlights, San Jose Museum of Art, California.

2001

• 49° Esposizione Internazionale, Plateau of Mankind, La Biennale di Venezia.
• Berlin Biennale II, Berlin.
• Les Chiens Andalous, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
• Vom Eindruck zum Ausdruck: Grässlin Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
• Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California.
• Circos Globulos: Selected Works from the Babilonia Wilner Collection, Babilonia 1808, Berkeley, California.

2000

• Salon, Delfina, London.
• Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
• Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millenium, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
• Partage d’Exotismes, 5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France.
• Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
• The Sensational Line, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado.

1999

• Vestiges of War, 1899-1999: The Philippine-American War and Its Aftermath, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Gallery, New York University, New York.
• Jardin de Eros, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina/Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona; Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway.
• Sensibilidade Apocaliptica, Festival Atlantico ’99, Lisbon, Portugal.

1998

• At Home and Abroad: 21 Contemporary Filipino Artists, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco.
• Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California.
• Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
• 98: Cien Anos Despues, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila; Puerto Rico; Havana, Cuba; Valencia, Spain.

1997

• American Stories—Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo.
• Arte Chido! Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Memories of Overdevelopment, Irvine Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, California.
• Nu-Glu, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York.
• Past Time, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh.
• Pervasive Referents, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York.
• Unmapping the Earth, ’97 Kwangju Biennial, Korea.
• Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado.

1996

• Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, Rome.

1995

• Eye Tattooed America, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California.
• In the Light of Goya, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California.
• Post-Colonial California, San Francisco State University, San Franicisco.

1994

• Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, The Asia Society, New York.
• Icastica, Galeria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna.
• Jean-Michel Basquiat & Manuel Ocampo, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle.
• Manuel Ocampo & Don Ed Hardy, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York.
• Sacred and Profane, Studio Nosei, Rome.
• Unholy Wars, Postmasters, New York.

1993

• 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington.
• Drawing the Line Against Aids, 45th Venice Biennial at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
• In Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Beuna Gardens, San Francisco.
• Medialismo, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy.

1992

• Documenta IX, Documentahallen, Kassel, Germany.
• Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

1991

• Individual Realities in the California Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Art Tokyo.
• Mike Bidlo, Manuel Ocampo, Andres Serrano, Saatchi Collection, London.

Publications

2005

• Manuel Ocampo Bastards of Misrepresentation, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain.

2003 

• Manuel Ocampo Wunderkammer, Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst e.V., Augsburg.

2002 

• Art Now: 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium, Taschen, Cologne.

2002 

• Vitamin P: New Perspectivees in Painting, Phaidon, London.

2001 

• Les Chiens Andalous, Track 16 Gallery/Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, California.

2000 

• Asian Collection 50, From the Collection of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.

1999 

• The Nature of Culture--Manuel Ocampo/Gaston Damag. Interventions in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de Las Cuevas, Centro Andalluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville.

1999 

• The Inversion of the Ideal: Navigating the Landscape of Intestinal Muck, Swastikating between Love and Hate, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid.

1999 

• Why Must I Care For a Girl Who Always Scratches Wherever She Itches: 1-1/2 Centuries of Modern Art Twelve Step Program, Delfina, London, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona.

1998 

• Yo Tambien Soy Pintura, Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC ), Badajoz, Spain.

1997 

• Hacer Pintura es Hacer Patria, Galeria OMR, Mexico City.
• Heridas de la Lengua, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica.
• Station to Station, Edizioni Programma, Cagliari, Italy.

1994 

• Virgin Destroyer: Manuel Ocampo, Hardy Marks Publications, Honolulu.

Selected Bibliography

2007

• Gavin, Francesca. "Enemies of the State: Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round," Dazed & Confused Magazine 2.46, Feb. 2007, p. 181.
• Berardini, Andrew. "Kinky Sex (Makes the World Go 'Round)," artforum.com, Feb. 15, 2007.

2005

• Wong, Martin. "Manuel Ocampo: Sheer Art Attack," Giant Robot 39, 2005, pp. 62-67, 80.
• Myers, Holly. "An Artist's Relationship to the Creative Process," Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2005.
• Fischer, Jack. "Ocampo Turns His Anger on the Art World," San Jose Mercury News, June 6, 2005.

2002

• de Vries, Von Janneke. “Eine Pflanze Namens Warhol: Manuel Ocampo Malerei in der Galerie Bärbel Grässlin," Franfurter Rundschau, June 25, 2002.
• Fischer, Jack. “Ocampo Stretches Limits into Protest,” San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 16, 2002.
• Helfand, Glen. “Manuel Ocampo at Babilonia 1808,” Tema Celeste, March/April 2002.
• Helfand, Glen. “Freeing Aesthetic Pleasure,” 7x7, Winter 2001-02.
• Helstrup, Anjee. “Free Aesthetic Pleasure Now! -Manuel Ocampo,” Zero Magazine, Dec. 10, 2001-Jan. 10, 2002.
• “Manuel Ocampo: Free Aesthetic Pleasure Now!” Juxtapoz, March-April 2002.

2001

• Angeline, John. “Manuel Ocampo: Jack Shainman Gallery,” Art Nexus, Feb.-April 2001.
• Leffingwell, Edward. “Manuel Ocampo at Jack Shainman,” Art in America, Feb. 2001.
• Tadiar, Carlo. “Manuel Ocampo at the Jack Shainman Gallery,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb. 26, 2001.

2000

• Smith, Roberta. “Manuel Ocampo at Jack Shainman Gallery", The New York Times, Nov. 3, 2000.

1999

• Barnatan, Marcos Ricardo. “La Santa Blasfemia,” El Mundo, Feb. 27, 1999.
• Bright, Susan. “Manuel Ocampo,” Art Asia Pacific 22, 1999.
• Huici, Fernando. “Pinturas como Navajas,” El Pais, March 13, 1999.
• Perez, Eva Diaz. “Sacrilegio en el monasterio de la Cartuja,” El Mundo, Feb. 21, 1999.

1998

• Buck, Louisa. “Interview with Manuel Ocampo,” The Art Newspaper 81, May 1998.
• Burrows, David. “Manuel Ocampo,” Art Monthly, July-Aug. 1998.
• Calvo Serraller, Francisco. “La ferocidad blasfema De Manuel Ocampo se muestra en Badajoz,” El Pais, Feb. 5, 1998.
• Chattopadhyay, Collette. “Manuel Ocampo at Track 16 Gallery,” Asian Art News, Jan.-Feb. 1998.
• Enriquez, Lucia. “The Meteroric Rise (and Self-Sabotage) of Manuel Ocampo,” The International Examiner: Pacific Reader, Spring 1998.
• Fernandez, Lluis. “Manuel Ocampo - Mi Pintura es Terapia de Choque,” La Razon (El Cultural), Dec. 12, 1998.
• Kent, Sara. “Outsider Dealing: Manuel Ocampo finds a place for displacement,” Time Out, June 10-17, 1998.
• Maison, Andrea. “Agony and Ecstasy: Manuel Ocampo’s Artistic Vision of the Postcolony,” Amerasia Journal, 1998
• Ocampo, Manuel. “To Infinity and Beyond,” ARTI International 39, May-July 1998.
• Serra, Catalina. “El Artista que muerde la mano que Le alimenta,” El Pais (Catalunia), Dec. 3, 1998.
• Spiegel, Olga. “El artista filipino Manuel Ocampo expone en el Tecla Sala sustelas ‘pisables',” La Vanguardia, Dec. 14, 1998.

1997

• Hammond, Anna. “Manuel Ocampo at Annina Nosei,” Artnews, March 1997.
• Joanou, Alice. “Furious Desire,” World Art 13, 1997.
• Katz, Vincent. “Manuel Ocampo at Annina Nosei,” Art in America, May 1997.
• Lutfy, Carol. “Asian Artists in America: Manuel Ocampo,” Atelier, March-April 1997.
• Miles, Christopher. “The Accidental Tourist,” Detour, Sep. 1997.
• Power, Kevin. “Manuel Ocampo: Rough Gatherings at the Edges of the Mind,” Third Text, Winter 1997-1998.
• Rodriguez, Phillip. “The Neo-Colonized: Manuel Ocampo on Race, Paint and Money,” LA Weekly, Oct. 3-9, 1997.

1995

• Alba, Victoria. “Master of the Macabre,” Asian Art News, March-April 1995.
• Dagbert, Anne. “Manuel Ocampo at Galerie Nathalie Obadia,” Art Press, Nov. 1995.
• Ferrario, Rachele. “Manuel Ocampo – Ciocca Raffaelli,” Flash Art, July 1995.

1994

• Apostol, Sherry. “An Interview with Manuel Ocampo,” ARTI 21, 1994.
• Baker, Kenneth. “Ocampo’s Strange, Scary Visions,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 12, 1994.
• Bonetti, David. “Asian American Artists take the S.F. Spotlight,” San Francisco Examiner, June 10, 1994.
• Edelman, Robert G. “Springtime in New York – Manuel Ocampo at Annina Nosei," Art Press, July-Aug. 1994.
• Jana, Reena. “Manuel Ocampo at the Mexican Museum,” Asian Art News, July-Aug. 1994.
• Mahoney, Robert. “Manuel Ocampo – Annina Nosei,” Flash Art, Summer 1994.
• Santiago, Chiori. “Manuel Ocampo at the Mexican Museum—San Francisco,” World Art, Nov. 1994.
• Scarborough, James. “Manuel Ocampo—One Man-National Movement,” Flash Art, May-June 1994.

1993

• Baker, Kenneth. “Contemporary Painting Celebrated in D.C.,” San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 7, 1993.
• Cecilio, Teddy B. “Art Exhibition Stirs Indignation,” Phil-Am Free Press, June 3, 1993.
• Dash, Phillip. “Shock to the System,” Detour, July-Aug. 1993.
• Duncan, Michael. “Manuel Ocampo at Salander-O’Reilly/Fred Hoffman,” Art in America, Nov. 1993.
• Kandel, Susan. “A Filipino Artist’s Portrait of Dominance and Submission,” Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1993.
• Muchnic, Suzanne. “Portrait of the Artist as an Angry Outsider,” Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1993.

1992

• Baker, Kenneth. “Helter Skelter: A Defining Moment In Los Angeles Art,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 10, 1992.
• Bonetti, David. “Ocampo: Looking Back in Anger,” San Francisco Examiner, April 1992.
• Gardner, Colin. “Helter Skelter,” Artforum, April 1992.
• Hughes, Robert. “Dada for the Valley Girl,” Time, April 20, 1992.
• Knight, Christopher. “Faces to Watch in ’92,” Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1992.
• Knight Christopher. “Spanish Colonial with a Twist,” Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1992.
• Quinn, Michelle. “Works Pulled from German Exhibition,” Los Angeles Times, June 15, 1992.
• “Ocampo’s Apocalyptic Vision,” San Francisco/San Jose Philippine News, April 22-28, 1992.
• “Young Old Master: Galaxy of Rising Stars,” Time, Nov. 18, 1992.

1991

• Laurence, Michael. “Manuel Ocampo at Christopher John,” Art in America, Jan. 1991.
• Picot, Pierre. “Manuel Ocampo at La Luz de Jesus and Christopher John Gallery," Visions, Spring 1991.
• Selwyn, Marc. “Manuel Ocampo at Fred Hoffman,” Flash Art, May-June 1991.
• Weissman, Benjamin. “Manuel Ocampo at Fred Hoffman Gallery,” Artforum, May 1991.

1990

• Curtis, Cathy. “Strong Works by Young Artists. . .,” Los Angeles Times, April 9, 1990.

Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado.

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California.

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain.

Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.

IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain.

Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, (CAAM) Canary Islands, Spain.

Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal.

Fonds National D’Art Contemporain, Paris.

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.

Oakland Museum, Oakland, California.

Awards and Prizes

1998 

• Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny Program.

1996 

• National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts.

1995–96 

• Rome Prize in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome.

1995 

• Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.\par The Art Matters Foundation.