Manuel Ocampo

1965 Born in Quezon City, Philippines 2012 Lives and works in Manila, The View Through the Bull of a Philippines Manual Laborer of Menagerie Gussied Over White Ground: 20 1985 years of Self-Loathing and California State University, Intestinal Mishaps , Tyler Rollins Bakersfield Fine Art, New York, NY (S)

1984 Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, University of the Philippines, Australia(G) Quezon City 2011/12 Exhibitions: Hirschfaktor. Die Kunst des Zitierens, ZKM | Museum für Neue 2015 Kunst, Karlsruhe (C, G) Goya vu par Ocampo, La Junte des Philippines 1815–2015, Musée 2011 Goya, Castres The Ghost Poo of Painting, Philara – Sammlung zeitgenössischer Manuel Ocampo, Nosbaum Reding Kunst, Düsseldorf (S) Gallery, Luxembourg 2010 Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Inversion of the ideal, Galerie Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, Zimmermann-Kratochwill, Graz (G) NJ. Traveling to Telfair Museum of Art Savannah, GA; University of Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg Michigan Museum of Art, Ann (S) Arbor, MI; and Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin 2009/10 (G) Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich. Leverkusen (C, G) The Corrections, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, New York, USA (S) Papier, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, 2014 Frankfurt a.M. (G) Notes from the Ste Anne Asylum, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, Family Jewels, Galerie der Stadt France (S) Esslingen im Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen (C, G) POSSESSION (II), Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University (G) 2009 Monument to the Aesthetisization 2013 of Desublimated Fantasies Perverse Sublime of the Toxic, Rendered Impotent by Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg Unredeemable Gestures, Galerie (S) Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/M. (S)

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Manuel Ocampo

The Making of Art, Schirn Bastards of Misrepresentation, Kunsthalle Frankfurt a.M. (C, G) Casa Asia, Barcelona (C, S)

Miniaturen, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, 2004 Frankfurt a.M. (G) Bienal Internacional de Arte 2007/8 Contemporánea de Sevilla, Sevilla Guided by Sausage or Setting the (C, G) Course for the Embarrassing Theme, Galería Tomás March, Bastards, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Valencia (S) Frankfurt/M. (S)

2007 Miserable Intentions, Alimentation Guided by Sausage, Nosbaum & Generale Art Conteporain, Reding, Luxembourg (S) Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg (with Gaston Damag) (S) on paper!, Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst e.V., Augsburg Moral Stories: Fuck The Third (C, G) World!!, Galerie Tomás March, Valencia (S) 2006 Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York 2003 (S) Wunderkammer, Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst e.V., Augsburg En el cielo no hay cerveza sin (C, S) alcohol, Adhoc Galería, Vigo (with Curro González) (S) The Inadequacy of the Struggle Against the Inadequacy of the Kitsch Recovery Program: An Struggle, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Image Is Just A Pathetic Attempt To Munich (S) Do Justice To A Picture, Alimentation Generale Art 2002 Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Extranjeros: Los Otros Artistas Luxembourg (S) Españoles, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Down with Reality, Galerie Jesco Segovia, Spain (G) von Puttkamer, Berlin (S) Gallery Paule Anglim, San 2005/6 Francisco (S) Goetz meets Falckenberg, Phönix- Hallen, Hamburg-Harburg (C, G) An All Out Attempt at Transcendence, Galerie Bärbel 2005 Grässlin, Frankfurt/M. (S) Miserable Intentions, ART-CADE, Marseille (with Gaston Damag)

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Manuel Ocampo

Comprehensible Only to a Few Initiates, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Made in California: Art, Image, and Paris (S) Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los An Existentializing Function of an Angeles (C, G) Aesthetic Suspension of the Meaningful Word, Gallery Paule Faith: The Impact of Judeo- Anglim, San Francisco (S) Christian Religion on Art at the Millenium, The Aldrich Museum, 2001 Ridgefield, Connecticut (C, G) 49. Esposizione Internazionale, Plateau of Mankind, la Biennale di Partage d’Exotismes, 5th Biennale Venezia (C, G) d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (G) Berlin Biennale II, Berlin Germany (C, G) Sammlung Falckenberg (Falckenberg Collection), Les Chiens Andalous, Track 16 Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany Gallery, Santa Monica, California (G) (C, G) Those Long Dormant Pimples of Vom Eindruck zum Ausdruck: Inattention Counterattacking the Grässlin Collection, (From Hyper-Convoluted Dramas of the Impression to Expression), Gaze, Philomene Magers Projekte, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany Munich, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, (C, G) Frankfurt/M. (S)

Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Those Long Dormant Pimples of Museum of Art (G) Inattention Meandering through the Cranium Arcade of Pitiless Circos Globulos: Selected Works Logic Swastikating between Love from the Babilonia Wilner and Hate, Jack Shainman Gallery, Collection, Babilonia 1808, New York (S) Berkeley, California (G) The Stream of Transcendent Presenting the Undisclosed System Object-Making Consciously of References in the Loophole of Working towards the Goal, Galerie Misunderstanding, Galería OMR, Michael Neff, Frankfurt/M. (S) Mexico City (S) 1999 Free Aesthetic Pleasure Now!, The Nature of Culture--Manuel Babilonia 1808, Berkeley, California Ocampo/Gaston Damag (S) Interventions in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de las 2000 Cuevas, Centro Andaluz de Arte Salon, Delfina, London (G) Contemporáneo, Seville (C, S)

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Manuel Ocampo

the Lack Thereof, Galerie Nathalie 1999 Obadia, Paris (S) Vestiges of War, 1899-1999: The Philippine-American War and Its Yo También Soy Pintura, El Museo Aftermath, Asian/Pacific/American Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Studies Gallery, New York Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, University (G) Spain (C, S)

Jardin de Eros, Institut de Cultura Why Must I Care For a Girl Who de Barcelona, Palau de la Always Scratches Wherever She Virreina/Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Itches: 1-1/2 Centuries of Modern Barcelona; Bergen Kunstmuseum, Art Twelve Step Program, Delfina, Bergen, Norway (C, G) London; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona (C, S) Sensibilidade Apocaliptica, Festival Atlantico ’99, Lisbon, Portugal (C, Galerie Philomene Magers, G) Cologne. (S)

The Inversion of the Ideal: 1997 Navigating the Landscape of American Stories—Amidst Intestinal Muck, Swastikating Displacement and Transformation, between Love and Hate, Galería Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo (C, G) Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (C, S) Arte Chido! Antiguo Colegio de 1998 San Ildefonso, Mexico City (G) At Home and Abroad: 21 Contemporary Filipino Artists, Memories of Overdevelopment, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Irvine Art Gallery, University of (C, G) California, Irvine. (C, G)

Double Trouble: The Patchett Nu-Glu, Joseph Helman Gallery, Collection, Museum of New York (G) Contemporary Art, San Diego (C, G) Past Time, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh (G) Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Pervasive Referents, Phyllis Kind Ridgefield, Connecticut (C, G) Gallery, New York (G)

’98: Cien Anos Despues, Cultural Unmapping the Earth, ’97 Kwangju Center of the Philippines, Manila, Biennial, Korea (C, G) Puerto Rico; Havana, Cuba; Valencia, Spain (C, G) Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels, Boulder Museum of To Infinity and Beyond: Presenting Contemporary Art, Colorado (G) the Unpresentable—The Sublime or

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Manuel Ocampo

Heridas de la Lengua, Track 16 University of Washington, Seattle Gallery, Santa Monica, California (G) (C, S) Manuel Ocampo & Don Ed Hardy, Hacer Pintura Es Hacer Patria, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York (G) Galería OMR, Mexico City (C, S) Sacred and Profane, Studio Nosei, 1996 Rome (G) Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome (C, G) Unholy Wars, Postmasters, New York (G) Annina Nosei Gallery, New York (S) Paraiso Abierto a Todos, The 1995 Mexican Museum, San Francisco Eye Tattooed America, Laguna Art (S) Museum, Laguna Beach, California (G) Stations of the Cross, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York (S) In the Light of Goya, University Art Museum, University of California, 1993 Berkeley (G) 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Post-Colonial California, San The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Francisco State University (G) Washington, D.C. (C, G)

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Drawing the Line Against Aids, 45th The Art Matters Foundation Venice Biennial at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (C, G) Ciocca Raffaelli Arte Contemporaneo, Milan (C, S) In Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Beuna Gardens, San Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (S) Francisco (C, G)

Musée d’Art Contemporain de Medialismo, Trevi Flash Art Montreal, Canada (S) Museum, Trevi, Italy (C, G)

1994 New Paintings, Salander-O’Reilly Asia/America: Identities in Galleries/Fred Hoffman, Contemporary Asian American Art, Beverly Hills, California (S) The Asia Society, New York (C, G) Manuel Ocampo, Galería OMR, Icastica, Galeria d’Arte Moderna, Mexico City (S) Bologna (C, G) 1992 Jean-Michel Basquiat & Manuel Documenta IX, Documentahallen, Ocampo, Henry Art Gallery, Kassel, Germany (C, G)

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Manuel Ocampo

Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (C, G) Public Collections

Grupo de Gago, Weingart Center Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Angeles (S) Oakland Museum, Oakland, California. Matrix—Berkeley 150, University Art Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Museum, University of California, California Berkeley (S) 1991 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Individual Realities in the California Hawaii Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Art Tokyo (C, G) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Mike Bidlo, Manuel Ocampo, Andres Serrano, Saatchi Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina London (G) Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain

M.J.O., Jay Chiat residence, New Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de York (S) Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain Manuel Ocampo, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, California IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, (S) Valencia, Spain

1990 Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Substancias Irritantes, (CAAM) Canary Islands, Spain Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, California (S) Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal Awards Fonds National D’Art Contemporain, Paris. 1998 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Artists Japan at Giverny Program Bibliography (Books & Catalogs) 1996 National Endowment for the Arts, 2009 Visual Arts „The Making of Art“, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt/M. 1995-96 Rome Prize in Visual Arts, American 2006 Academy in Rome

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Manuel Ocampo

„Vous êtes ici“, FRAC Auvergne, London; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Clermont Ferrand Barcelona

2005 1998 „Goetz meets Falckenberg“, Yo Tambien Soy Pintura, Museo Phönix-Hallen, Hamburg-Harburg Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC ), „Manuel Ocampo - Bastards of Badajoz, Spain Misrepresentation“, Casa Asia, Barcelona 1997 Hacer Pintura es Hacer Patria, 2004 Galeria OMR, Mexico City. Bienal Internacional de Arte Heridas de la Lengua, Smart Art Contemporánea de Sevilla, Seville Press, Santa Monica

2003 Station to Station, Edizioni Wunderkammer, Gesellschaft für Programma, Cagliari, Italy Gegenwartskunst e.V., Augsburg 1994 2001 Virgin Destroyer: Manuel Ocampo, Les Chiens Andalous, Track 16 Hardy Marks Publications, Gallery/Smart Art Press, Santa Honolulu Monica, California

2000 Museum Publications Asian Collection 50, From the Collection of the Fukuoka Asian Art Chagoya, Enrique, “Notes for a Nonlinear Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Interpretation of the Work of Manuel Ocampo,” The Mexican Museum, San 1999 Francisco, 1994 The Nature of Culture--Manuel Ocampo/Gaston Damag. Enriquez, Lucia, “Jean Michel Interventions in the Monasterio de Basquiat/Manuel Ocampo,” Henry Art la Cartuja de Santa Maria de las Gallery, Seattle, 1994 Cuevas, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville Kent, Sarah, “Mike Bidlo, Manuel Ocampo, The Inversion of the Ideal: Andres Serrano,” Saatchi Collection, Navigating the Landscape of London, August 1991 Intestinal Muck, Swastikating between Love and Hate, Galeria Lussier, Real, “Serie Projet 15: Manuel Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid Ocampo,” Musee D’Art Contemporain Why Must I Care For a Girl Who De Montreal, 1995 Always Scratches Wherever She Itches: 1-1/2 Centuries of Modern Rinder, Lawrence, “History and Retribution Art Twelve Step Program, Delfina, in the Art of Manuel Ocampo,” University Art Museum, Berkeley, May—June 1992

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Film 2000 Smith, Roberta, “Manuel Ocampo 1998 at Jack Shainman Gallery, The New God is My Copilot (one hour York Times, Nov. 3, 2000 feature film) Directed by Phillip Rodriguez and Produced by Tom 1999 Patchett Barnatan, Marcos Ricardo, “La Santa Blasfemia,” El Mundo, Feb. 27, 1999 Selected Reviews & Articles Bright, Susan, “Manuel Ocampo,” 2002 Art Asia Pacific, Issue 22, 1999 Fischer, Jack, “Ocampo Stretches Limits into Protest,” San Jose Huici, Fernando, “Pinturas como Mercury News, Jan. 16, 2002 Navajas,” El Pais, March 13, 1999 Perez, Eva Diaz, “Sacrilegio en el Helfand, Glen, “Manuel Ocampo at monasterio de la Cartuja,” El Babilonia 1808,” Tema Celeste, Mundo, Feb. 21, 1999 March/April 2002 1998 Helfand, Glen, “Freeing Aesthetic Buck, Louisa, “Interview with Pleasure,” 7x7, Winter ‘01-’02 Manuel Ocampo,” The Art Newspaper, No. 81, May 1998 Helstrup, Anjee, “Free Aesthetic Pleasure Now! - Manuel Ocampo,” Burrows, David, “Manuel Ocampo,” Zero Magazine, Dec. 10, 2001-- Art Monthly, July-August 1998 Jan.10, 2002 Calvo Serraller, Francisco, “ La “Manuel Ocampo: Free Aesthetic ferocidad blasfema de Manuel Pleasure Now!” Juxtapoz, Ocampo se muestra en Badajoz,” El March/April 2002 Pais, February 5, 1998

2001 Chattopadhyay, Collette, “Manuel Angeline, John, “Manuel Ocampo: Ocampo at Track 16 Gallery,” Asian Jack Shainman Gallery,” Art Nexus, Art News, Jan/Feb 1998 Feb.-April, 2001 Enriquez, Lucia, “The Meteroric Leffingwell, Edward, “Manuel Rise (and Self-Sabotage) of Manuel Ocampo at Jack Shainman,” Art in Ocampo,” The International America, Feb. 2001 Examiner: Pacific Reader, Spring 1998 Tadiar, Carlo, “Manuel Ocampo at the Jack Shainman Gallery,” Fernandez, Lluis, “Manuel Ocampo- Philippine Daily Inquirer, February -Mi Pintura es Terapia de Choque” 26, 2001

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La Razon (El Cultural) December Power, Kevin, “Manuel Ocampo: 12, 1998 Rough Gatherings at the Edges of the Mind,” Third Text, Winter 1997- Kent, Sara, “Outsider Dealing: 1998 Manuel Ocampo finds a place for displacement,” Time Out, June 10- Rodriguez, Phillip, “The Neo- 17, 1998 Colonized: Manuel Ocampo on Race, Paint and Money,”, LA Maison, Andrea, “Agony and Weekly, October 3--9, 1997 Ecstasy: Manuel Ocampo’s Artistic Vision of the Postcolony,” Amerasia 1995 Journal, 1998 Alba, Victoria, “Master of the Macabre,” Asian Art News, March- Ocampo, Manuel, “To Infinity and April 1995 Beyond,” ARTI International, no. 39, May-July 1998 Dagbert, Anne, “Manuel Ocampo at Galerie Nathalie Obadia,” Art Serra, Catalina, “El Artista que Press, Nov.1995 muerde la mano que le alimenta,” El Pais (Catalunia), December 3, Ferrario, Rachele, “Manuel 1998 Ocampo – Ciocca Raffaelli,” Flash Art, July 1995 Spiegel, Olga, “El artista filipino Manuel Ocampo expone en el 1994 Tecla Sala sus telas ‘pisables,’” La Apostol, Sherry, “An Interview with Vanguardia, December 14, 1998 Manuel Ocampo,” ARTI, no. 21, 1994

1997 Baker, Kenneth, “Ocampo’s Hammond, Anna, “Manuel Ocampo Strange, Scary Visions,” San at Annina Nosei, Artnews, March Francisco Chronicle, 1997 June 12, 1994.

Joanou, Alice, “Furious Desire,” Bonetti, David, “Asian American World Art, No. 13, 1997 Artists take the S.F. Spotlight,” San Francisco Examiner, June 10, 1994 Katz, Vincent, “Manuel Ocampo at Annina Nosei,” Art in America, May Edelman, Robert G., “Springtime in 1997 New York – Manuel Ocampo at Annina Nosei,, Art Press, July- Lutfy, Carol, “Asian Artists in August 1994 America: Manuel Ocampo,” Atelier, March-April 1997 Jana, Reena, “Manuel Ocampo at the Mexican Museum,” Asian Art Miles, Christopher, “The Accidental News, July-Aug 1994 Tourist,” Detour, September 1997

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Mahoney, Robert, “Manuel Bonetti, David, “Ocampo: Looking Ocampo – Annina Nosei,” Flash Art, Back in Anger,” San Francisco Summer 1994 Examiner, April 1992

Santiago, Chiori, “Manuel Ocampo Gardner, Colin, “Helter Skelter,” at the Mexican Museum—San Artforum, April 1992 Francisco,” World Art, November 1994 Hughes, Robert, “Dada for the Valley Girl,” Time, April 20, 1992. Scarborough, James, “Manuel Knight, Christopher, “Faces to Ocampo—One Man-National Watch in ’92,” Los Angeles Times, Movement,” Flash Art, May-June April 16, 1992 1994 Knight Christopher, “Spanish 1993 Colonial with a Twist,” Los Angeles Baker, Kenneth, “Contemporary Times, April 16, 1992 Painting Celebrated in D.C.,” San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 7, 1993 Quinn, Michelle, “Works Pulled from German Exhibition,” Los Cecilio, Teddy B. “Art Exhibition Angeles Times, June 15, 1992 Stirs Indignation,” Phil-Am Free Press, June 3, 1993 “Ocampo’s Apocalyptic Vision,” San Francisco/San Jose Philippine Dash, Phillip, “Shock to the News, April 22-28, 1992 System,” Detour, July-Aug 1993. Duncan, Michael, “Manuel Ocampo “Young Old Master: Galaxy of at Salander-O’Reilly/Fred Rising Stars,” Time, November 18, Hoffman,” Art in America, 1992 November 1993 1991 Kandel, Susan, “A Filipino Artist’s Laurence, Michael, “Manuel Portrait of Dominance and Ocampo at Christopher John,” Art Submission,” Los Angeles Times, in America, Jan 1991 April, 24 1993 Picot, Pierre, “Manuel Ocampo at Muchnic, Suzanne, “Portrait of the La Luz de Jesus and Christopher Artist as an Angry Outsider,” John Gallery, Visions, Spring 1991 Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1993 Selwyn, Marc, “Manuel Ocampo at 1992 Fred Hoffman,” Flash Art, May-June Baker, Kenneth, “Helter Skelter: A 1991 Defining Moment in Los Angeles Art,” San Francisco Chronicle, Weissman, Benjamin, “Manuel March 10, 1992 Ocampo at Fred Hoffman Gallery,” Artforum, May 1991

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Manuel Ocampo

1990 Curtis, Cathy, “Strong Works by Young Artists. . .,” Los Angeles Times, April 9, 1990

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