Slade Contemporary Art Lecture: Pio Abad
We are delighted to welcome Pio Abad, who will be speaking about his work on Wednesday 16 October.
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Installation photograph Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Photo 漏Hannah Pye, Work 漏Pio Abad
Open to public, free, booking opens from 14:00, 3 October 2024.
Pio Abad (b.1983) is an artist whose work is concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects. His wide-ranging body of work, mines alternative or repressed historical events and offers counternarratives that draw out threads of complicity between incidents, ideologies and people. Deeply informed by unfolding events in the Philippines, where the artist was born and raised, his work emanates from a family narrative woven into the nation鈥檚 story.
He has exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; 58th Carnegie International; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennial; Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Kadist, San Francisco; Oakville Galleries, Ontario; the 2nd Honolulu Biennial; 12th Gwangju Biennial; 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney and Gasworks, London. He was recently nominated for the 2024 Turner Prize.
Abad鈥檚 works are part of a number of important collections including Tate, UK; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hawai鈥檌 State Art Museum, Honolulu and Singapore Art Museum.
Abad is also the curator of the estate of his aunt, the Filipino American artist Pacita Abad. He has co-curated monographic exhibitions on Pacita Abad at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Manila and Spike Island, Bristol.
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