Wawi Navarroza
Manila
A multi-disciplinary artist using photography mostly to delve into Self and Surrounding. Works in tableaus, self-portraiture, landscape & installation.
MessageWawi Navarroza is a Filipino contemporary artist using photography, actively exhibiting in the Philippines and internationally. Her images delve into Self and Surrounding as seen in her works in constructed tableaus, self-portraits and contemporary landscape. The artist is interested in investigating displacements, disorientation and discovery, all perhaps to mirror a path to understanding a deeper sense of place & identity.
She has exhibited widely in the Philippines and internationally, including National Museum of the Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Singapore Art Museum 8Q, Hangaram Museum, Korea, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, and Fries Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum Belvedere, Netherlands, and in festivals and art fairs such as Art Basel HK.
Navarroza has received a number of awards such as the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Grant New York, Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Thirteen Artists Awards, Ateneo Art Awards, Lumi Photographic Art Awards Helsinki, and finalist for Singapore Museum Signature Art Prize, WMA Commission Hong Kong and Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2018.
Her art has been surveyed in books such as “Photography Today" (Phaidon) “Contemporary Photography in Asia” (Prestel) and “Photography in South East Asia” by Zuang Wubin (NUS Press). Navarroza has been a strong proponent of the printed format as an extension of artistic work and with this, has published two books “DOMINION” and “Hunt & Gather, Terraria”, launched respectively at Offprint Paris and PS1MoMA. In 2015, she founded Thousandfold, a contemporary photography platform and the first photobook library in Manila, with Thousandfold Small Press as its publishing arm. As an educator, she gives periodic workshops and is a recognized speaker to photography talks, reviews, and conferences in the Philippines and the Pacific.
Navarroza is a graduate of Communications Arts at De La Salle University, Manila. Shortly after, she received continuing education at the International Center of Photography in New York City. In the past few years, she has been based in Spain where she completed her Masters scholarship award for Master Europeo de Fotografía de Autor at Istituto Europeo di Design, Madrid.
Currently, she lives and works in Manila. She also sings for the rock band The Late Isabel.
Wawi Navarroza is represented by Silverlens Galleries.
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