Norberto Roldan

Norberto Roldan is a visual artist and cultural organiser whose artistic practice is rooted in social and political issues. His installations, assemblages and paintings of found objects, text fragments and found images address issues surrounding everyday life, history, and collective memory. He is interested in the multiplicity of meanings created through the materiality of objects that are re-appropriated and re-contextualised. He graduated with a BFA in Visual Communication from the University of Santo Tomas and holds a degree in BA Philosophy from St. Pius X Seminary. His work has been exhibited in various museum exhibitions across Asia, Europe, and North America, including Contemporary Art for South/Southeast Asia, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA in 2013; Between Declarations & Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia Since the 19th Century, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore in 2015; Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, National Art Centre Tokyo, Japan in 2017; and, Passion and Procession: Art of the Philippines, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2017. Roldan founded Black Artists in Asia in 1986, a group with a socially and politically progressive practice. In 1990 he initiated VIVA EXCON (Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference), the longest running biennale in the Philippines. He is also one of the co-founders of Green Papaya Projects, the longest-running independent and multi-disciplinary platform in the Philippines.