Upcoming Exhibition
KoreanABOUT THE ARTIST
Dominic Mangila
(b. 1978- Philippines)
Mangila lives in New York and Manila. He holds a BFA in studio art degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA degree in visual arts from Columbia University where he teaches in the visual art department. He has exhibited in various art venues in the US and abroad. He has participated in artist residencies such as Skowhegan, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Yaddo, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Seven Below Arts Initiative. He is a recipient of New York Community Trust Art Grant, Lotos Club Foundation Art Award, D' Arcy Trust Fund, Agnes Martin Fellowship and Chicago Community Art Grant. In 2015-2016, he had solo exhibitions at Vargas Museum and Drawing Room in the Philippines.
Manongs of Louisiana, 2025
Oil on canvas, 200 x 150 cm (each)
Commissioning in Process
The exhibition presents recent paintings by Dominic
Mangila that reference Filipino migrant workers who came
to the United States in the early 20th century - the farm
laborers ‘Manong Generation’ of California’s Pajaro Valley,
Hawaii and the shrimp farmers of Louisiana. It also
features a six-panel painting which references an archive
on International Hotel. The archive is culled from the
Watsonville Is In the Hearts (WIITH) - a community
engaged research initiative based at the University of
Santa Cruz (UCSC).
Dominic Mangila explores the cross-fertilization of
abstraction in disparate forms in painting. To prod
painting’s other unknown sphere, he explores the
reconsideration of the brushstroke as a performative
signature of the mind’s interiority and the individual
aesthetic gesture of the body’s phenomenological
sensitivity to all that is present in the painting studio.