Nona Garcia
Nona Garcia (b. 1978, Manila, Philippines) is an artist from the Philippines whose practice probes into the essence of things, setting up a dialogue between the transparent and the concealed, the framed and the natural, the sublime and the everyday. Garcia received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of the Philippines. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries locally and internationally, including Far Away but Strangely Familiar, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Slovak Republic, in 2019; Passion and Procession: Art from the Philippines; Art Gallery of NSW, Australia in 2017; the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia in 2015; What does it all matter, as long as the wounds fit the arrows?, Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2014; and the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan in 2005. She was awarded the Grand Prize in the Philip Morris ASEAN Art Award in 2000, and is also a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Thirteen Artists Award in 2003. She lives and works in Baguio City, Benguet Province, Philippines.
