BIOGRAPHY

Josephine Turalba is a Manila-based transdisciplinary artist whose work explores issues of divide and convergence within a volatile geopolitical world order. Her nomadic relation to various forms of media, including performance, installation, experimental video, tapestry, photography, and painting, allows her to delve into her obsessions with sociopolitical narratives, myths, and personal histories.

Turalba is a highly accomplished artist and academic. She has showcased her work at prestigious events and institutions including the Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, the 2016 London Biennale, European Cultural Center (concurrent with the 56th Venice Biennale), 12th Cairo Biennale, Arter Space Istanbul, and Cultural Center of the Philippines. She is currently the Director of the Artistic Research Center at Philippine Women’s University and a Research Fellow at the MIT Future Heritage Lab. She holds an MFA in New Media. She has served in various leadership roles, including as Director of Artistic Research at the Philippine Women’s University and as a Research Fellow at the MIT Future Heritage Lab and Program for Arts, Culture, and Technology. Turalba holds a Master’s degree in Research from Sint-Lucas Antwerpen, KdG Belgium, as well as an MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute, validated by Donau Universität Krems, Austria.

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Exhibitions:

2025

  • 10th Nakanojo Biennale 2025, Nakanojo, Japan
  • Feminist Cartography– Project Panatag: Subjective Mapping of the Philippines, Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines
  • Art Basel, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
  • Beauty Will Save the World: Eight Artists from Southeast Asia, 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong
  • In Search Of, Galerie Nothburga, Innsbrück, Austria
  • Creative Non-Fiction Between Books and Fine Art Printmaking: A Hanan Initiative Exhibit, Manila, Philippines
  • PhD Research Exhibition 2025, Burren College of Art, Ireland
  • Xavier Art Fest 2025 by Galleria Duemila, Manila, Philippines

2024

  • Echoes of Light, Nakanojo Biennale, Cebu/ Philippine Women’s University-Manila, Philippines
  • Four-Play, Fashion Interiors, Manila, Philippines
  • On Site: Dialoog, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
  • Artistic Research Exhibition, Philippine Women’s University-Manila, Philippines
  • New Impressions First Print Show, Somerville, MA, USA
  • To Bring a Plate, Gravity Art Space, Manila, Philippines
  • Solo Click.Share.Tag., Salcedo Private View, Manila, Philippines
  • Porte Aperte, Galleria Duemila, Manila, Philippines
  • Shared Memory,  International Çanakkale Biennial, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey
  • Xavier Art Fest 2024 by Galleria Duemila, Manila, Philippines

2023

  • Earthly Paradise, Altromondo Gallery, Manila, Philippines

2022

  • Earthly Paradise, Altromondo Gallery, Manila, Philippines

2021

  • Istorya Namon Subong (Our Stories Now), Manila, Philippines
  • Somerville as Muse, Somerville Museum, MA, USA
  • ALT 2021, Finale Art File, Manila, Philippines
  • SAC/Inside-OUT Gallery ArtBeat POP, Somerville, MA, USA
  • Limbag Kamay, Contemporary Print Fair, Philippines

2020

  • Solo MMXX, Galleria Duemila, Manila, Philippines
  • Carpe Diem, ALT Exhibition, SM Aura, Manila, Philippines
  • 36th International Festival Sarajevo Winter, Collegium Artisticum, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • The Art Piece as a Closed Text Series, Makati City, Philippines

2019

  • K9, Aphro, Makati City, Manila, Philippines
  • Violence Transformed, MA, USA
  • Art Politics: ONSAEMIRO: Art Politic – Border Crossing DMZ, Suwon Museum of Art, South Korea
  • Not Another Mother and Child, Orange Project, Bacolod City, Philippines
  • Womensemble: Creating Female Subjectivity in Art, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, Taipei, Taiwan

2018

  • Moving pledges: Art and action in Southeast Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
  • Femi-flow Creating Female Subjectivity in Art, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 6th Canakkale Biennial: Imagined Homes, Turkey Guns and Gun Violence in America: Too Many Too Close, Cambridge College, MA, USA
  • Candid Canines, Dragon Gallery, Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines
  • SAB’R: Light a Dream, Institute for Peace and Development in Mindanao, Marawi City, Philippines

2017

  • 2017 Art Fair Manila, Philippines
  • Collectionner, le désir inachevé, Musée d’Angers, France
  • Taste The Future Collection, Fine Art Gallery The American University of Paris, France
  • No Way Forward No Way Back, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Taxi, Erratum, Milan, Italy
  • Curated By Federico de Veyra, Ayala Museum, Philippines
  • Taste The Future Collection, Fine Art Gallery The American University of Paris, France
  • En Masse, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, New York, USA
  • 3.2.1., Ricco Renzo Gallery, Manila, Philippines

2016

  • 2016 London Biennale: Synchronisations/Syncopations
  • Homeland, 5th International Çanakkale Biennial, Turkey
  • Vagari, Galeria Duemila, Manila, Philippines
  • Cairotronica, Palace of the Arts, Cairo, Egypt
  • Onufri XXII, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
  • Multiples, KUAD Galeri, Istanbul, Turkey

2015

  • Personal Structures – Crossing Borders, European Cultural Center, Palazzo Mora,
    Venice, Italy (concurrent with the 56th Venice Biennale 2015)
  • Speak Together, Hofburg Imperial Museum, Innsbruck, Austria
  • Caravanserraglio, PoliLab, Arezzo, Italy
  • Fusionera, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, New York, USA
  • Studio 300 Digital Art and Music Festival 2015, Kentucky, USA
  • Handmade, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
  • From Venice to Miami, Florida, USA
  • Alay Sining 8: Save Hearts with Art, Manila, Philippines
  • En Masse, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, New York, USA

2014

  • The Roving Eye: Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, ARTER Space, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Mother Load, MET Open, Metropolitan Museum Manila, Philippines
  • Fractured Focus, Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Massachusetts, USA
  • Relative Realities, Yuchengco Museum, Makati City, Philippines
  • Terms & Conditions, Simultan Festival #10, Arthouse, Timisoara, Romania
  • Dornier, Royal Armed Forces Museum, London, United Kingdom
  • Small is Beautiful, KUAD Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Yesterday Once More, Erehwon Art Space, Quezon City, Philippines
  • Alay Sining 7: Art with a Heart, Manila, Philippines
  • Split Vision-Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Massachusetts, USA

2013

  • Grounded, Lopez Museum, Manila, Philippines
  • The Story of the Creative, See // Exhibition Space, New York, USA
  • Six Pack Abs, Ricco Renzo Gallery, Makati City, Manila, Philippines
  • Pagtitipon, DLSU-M, Philippines
  • Ricochet, Nova Gallery, Manila, Philippines
  • 2nd Izmir International Biennal, Turkey

2012

  • The Toronto International Art Fair, Canada
  • Earth Body Mind, 2nd Kathmandu International Arts Festival, Nepal
  • In Wonderland, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany
  • M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2012, Singapore
  • Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Connecting the Dots, Arnica Gallery, Kamloops, BC, Canada
  • Human Frames, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
  • Human Frames, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Human Frames, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
  • Human Frames, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany

2011

  • Nowheresville, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
  • Nothing to Declare, Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines
  • Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia, South Hill Park, Bracknel, UK
  • Human Frames, KIT Kunst-im-Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Human Frames, The Sub station Theatre, Singapore
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