Annie Cabigting

Annie Cabigting (Philippines, b. 1971) is a contemporary painter whose practice engages with the perception and reception of art, appropriation and authorship, and institutional critique. Although her motivations to attend art school stemmed from economic, rather than purely artistic, reasons, Cabigting learned conceptual thinking from her professor and mentor, the late Roberto Chabet, who encouraged her to mount a solo exhibition after she graduated in 1994 from the University of the Philippines Fine Arts program. Known for her photo-realistic paintings of people engaging with works of art in museums, galleries and auctions, Cabigting interrogates the various subject-object relationships embedded in the act of looking and makes visible the political, economic, and social underpinnings of the artworld. She has presented several solo and group shows in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Berlin. Her work was included in the Prague Biennale in Czechoslovakia, and she was a finalist of the 2005 Ateneo Art Awards.