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Pio Abad (b.1983)

Pio Abad (b.1983) Every Tool is a Weapon if You Hold it Right XXIV Filipino multimedia artist Pio Abad is concerned with the social and political significance of things. Abad’s practice makes use of a range of media, such as textiles, drawing, installation, and photographing, processing thoughts through images. His work investigates cultural events or public figures, exploring their histories and drawing out associations between them and other moments or other people. Abad’s work was included in the London Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2012 and he was a finalist in the Converse/Dazed and Confused Emerging Artist Award, 2012. Abad weaves visual narratives into the form of imitation Hermès scarves. He has been developing his series of scarves over the past few years, and has collaborated with silk printers who have worked with several well-known artists and designers, such as the late Alexander McQueen. Abad’s scarves function as both a commemorative object, as well as a historical object with its own material history. The imagery on the scarves excavate alternative or repressed historical accounts, bringing them together with one particular aesthetic phenomena. Biography Pio Abad (b. 1983, Manila, Philippines) lives and works in London. He began his art studies at the University of the Philippines before receiving a BA from Glasgow School of Art and an MA from the Royal Academy Schools, London. He has recently exhibited at Art Basel Encounters, Hong Kong (2017); Para Site, Hong Kong (2017); Kadist, Paris (2017). Solo exhibitions include: 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, curated by Toby Chapman, Sydney (2016);A Short History of Decay, Silverlens, Singapore (2015) Some Are Smarter Than Others, Gasworks, London (2014); The Collection of Jane Ryan and William Saunders, Vargas Museum, Manila (2014); Every Tool is a Weapon if you Hold it Right, Silverlens Gallery, Manila (2013); For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2013); Oh! Oh! Oh! (A Universal History of Infamy), PLAZAPLAZA, London (2012); 1986 – 2010, Royal Academy Schools Show, London (2012); Dazzler, Duchy Gallery, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (2012); Here Lies Love, Market Gallery, Glasgow (2008). Select group exhibitions include Project 06, Contemporary Art Society, London (2014); Bold Sopranos, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong (2014); Pre-pop to Post-human, A Hayward Touring Exhibition, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (2014); A Conspiracy of Detail, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow (2013); Reading Vogue, 68 Square Metres Art Space, Copenhagen (2013); Market Forces: A Friction of Opposites, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong (2013); Dazed and Confused Emerging Artist Awards, London (2012); London Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2012); Alptraum, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila (2012); Premiums 2011, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2011); Bad Igloo Lust, The Royal Standard, Liverpool (2010); Fears That I May Cease To Be, Generator Projects, Dundee (2009); Diaspora Project, curated by Ong Keng Sen, Edinburgh International Festival (2009); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennale of Contemporary Art, A Foundation, Liverpool and Rochelle School, London (2008); Pio Abad/ Allison Gibbs/ John Thomson, Intermedia Gallery, Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2008); The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2008); Autarchy, Studio Warehouse Gallery, Glasgow (2008). References https://www.pioabad.com 2015 Unique acid dye print on hand-stitched silk twill 39” x 39” (100 cm x 100 cm)