Carlos Quijon, Jr.

C-MAP Southeast and East Asia Fellow

Carlos Quijon, Jr. is an art historian, critic, and curator based between New York and Manila. He was a fellow of the research platform Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (MAHASSA), convened by the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories project. He has written exhibition reviews for Artforum and has essays published in ArtReview Asia (Singapore), Art Monthly (UK), Asia Art Archive’s Ideas (HK), and Trans Asia Photography Review (US), among others, and his research is part of the book From a History of Exhibitions Towards a Future of Exhibition-Making (Sternberg Press, 2019), Writing Presently (Manila: Philippine Contemporary Art Network, 2019), and SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia (Berlin: Weiss Publications, 2022). He is an alumnus of the inaugural Para Site Workshops for Emerging Professionals in Hong Kong in 2015 and was a scholar participant of the symposium “How Institutions Think” hosted by LUMA Foundation in Arles in 2016. In 2017, he was a research resident in MMCA Seoul and a fellow of the Transcuratorial Academy both in Berlin and Mumbai. He curated Courses of Action in Hong Kong in 2019 and co-curated the traveling exhibition series Afro-Southeast Asia: Pragmatics and Geopoetics of Art during a Cold War in Singapore (2021), Manila (2021-2), and Busan (2022). He is the curator of the exhibition series Archipelagic Futurisms, editions of which have been presented in Manila, New York, Kuala Lumpur, and Hong Kong. He is the curator of the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.

Contributions

Southeast Asia | A Global Museum

Somehow Materials Find Form: Pratchaya Phinthong and Carlos Quijon, Jr. in Conversation

Across Pratchaya Phinthong’s more than two-decade practice, an idiom of materiality and form has emerged that aligns his artistic trajectory along a conceptualist vein. Phinthong discusses his relationship toward this categorization and shares how he approaches his artistic practice against and alongside conceptualist gestures and methods. This edited transcript comes out of two interviews conducted with the artist over video call in June 2024.