Augusto Arbizo (born 1972 in
Quezon City
Quezon City (, ; ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read and pronounced in Filipino language, Filipino as Kyusi), is the richest and List of cities in the Philippines, most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 c ...
,
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...
) is a
visual artist
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,
gallerist
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An art dealer in contemporary art typically seeks out various artists to represent, and builds relationshi ...
, art advisor, and art
curator
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. As an artist he exhibited at White Columns, NY;
Sandra Gering Gallery, NY; and Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY. Group exhibitions include Artists Space, NY; PS1 MoMA, NY; and The
Queens Museum of Art
The Queens Museum (formerly the Queens Museum of Art) is an art museum and educational center at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. Established in 1972, the museum includes the '' Panorama of the City of Ne ...
, NY. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions for Rachel Uffner Gallery; Chapter NY; Greenberg Van Doren Gallery; and White Columns. He was director of 11R Eleven Rivington, NY from 2007–2017. Arbizo joined the New York art advisory firm Schwartzman& in 2021.
Arbizo was educated at
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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, The
Cooper Union School of Art
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,
NY, and The
University of Michigan
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.
See also
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Arts of the Philippines
The arts in the Philippines reflect a range of artistic influences on the country's culture, including indigenous art. Philippine art consists of two branches: traditional and non-traditional art. Each branch is divided into categories and su ...
References
1972 births
Living people
Filipino artists
Artists from Quezon City
Cooper Union alumni
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
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