BORN
1965, Quezon City, Philippines
Lives and works in Manila, Philippines

EDUCATION
1985 California State University, Bakersfield, CA
1984 University of the Philippines, Quezon City

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010

• Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France

2009

• Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
• “Painting as an Attempt to Memorialize Reality’s Triumph Over Art”, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium

2008

• “the tragicomic gravitational destiny of the conscious stricken world of a painter’s limp wrist”, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• “Guided by Sausage or Setting the Course for the Embarrassing Theme”, Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain

2007

• “Guided by Sausage” Nosbaum & Reding - Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, Le (9) bis, Saint-Etienne, France
• “Kitsch Recovery Program”, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006

• “En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza sin Alcohol (with Curro Gonzalez)”, Galeria adhoc, Vigo, Spain
• “Down with Reality”, Galerie Jesco Von Puttkamer, Berlin, Germany
• “Kitsch Recovery Program: An Image is Just a Pathetic Attempt to do Justice to a Picture”, Nosbaum & Reding – Art, Contemporain, Luxembourg
• “Down with Reality”, Galerie Jesco von Puttkamer, Berlin, Germany

2005

• “The Holocaustic Spackle in the Murals of the Quixotic Inseminators”, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• “Bastards of Misrepresentation”, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
• “New Works”, Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France

2004

• “Moral Stories: Fuck the Third World”, Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain
• “Bastards”, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
• Finale Art File, Mega Mall, Mandaluyong, Philippines
• “Miserable Intentions (with Gaston Damag)”, Art Contemporain – Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg

2003

• Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
• Wunderkammer, Gesellschaft Für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg (Society for Contemporary Art Augsburg), Germany
• “Lee Almighty”, Mag:net Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines

2002

• “An All Out Attempt at Transcendence”, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
• “Comprehensible Only to a Few Initiates”, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France

2001

• “Presenting the Undisclosed System of References in the Loophole of Misunderstanding”, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

2000

• “Those Long Dormant Pimples of Inattention Counterattacking the Hyper-Convoluted Dramas of the Gaze”, Sprüth Magers
• “Projekte”, Munich, Germany, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
• “Those Long Dormant Pimples of Inattention Meandering through the Cranium Arcade of Pitiless Logic Swastikating between Love and Hate”, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
• “The Stream of Transcendent Object-Making Consciously Working towards the Goal”, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany

1999

• “The Nature of Culture - Manuel Ocampo/Gaston Damag. Interventions in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de las Cuevas”, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain [catalogue]
• “The Inversion of the Ideal: Navigating the Landscape of Intestinal Muck, Swastikating between Love and Hate”, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain [catalogue]

1998

• “To Infinity and Beyond: Presenting the Unpresentable - The Sublime or the Lack Thereof”, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
• “Yo Tambien Soy Pintura”, El Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain [catalogue]
• “Why Must I Care For a Girl Who Always Scratches Wherever She Itches: 1-1/2 Centuries of Modern Art, Twelve Step Program”, Delfina, London, UK, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain [catalogue]
• Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany

1997

• “Heridas de la Lengua”, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA [catalogue]
• “Hacer Pintura Es Hacer Patria”, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico [catalogue]

1996

• Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY

1995

• Ciocca Raffaelli Arte Contemporaneo, Milan, Italy [catalogue]
• Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
• Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada

1994

• “Paraiso Abierto a Todos”, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
• “Stations of the Cross”, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY

1993

• ”New Paintings”, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries/Fred Hoffman, Beverly Hills, CA
• “Manuel Ocampo”, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

1992

• “Manuel Ocampo”, Matrix Berkeley 150, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1991

• “M.J.O.”, Jay Chiat residence, New York, NY
• “Manuel Ocampo”, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009

• “NEWAGERIOT”, Country Club, Los Angeles, CA
• “Emotional Drawing”, traveling exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan, Seoul Olympic Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
• “The Making of Art”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

2007

• “Messages Abroad”, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
• “Kinky Sex (Makes the World Go ‘Round)”, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006

• “Five Stories High”, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• “Painting Codes”, Galeria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Di Monfalcone, Italy

2004

• “Birth - Sex - Death”, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
• “La Alegria de mi Sueños”, Seville Biennale, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea, Seville, Spain

2003

• “End of the Start”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
• “The Broken Mirror”, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY

2002

• “Extranjeros: Los Otros Artistas Españoles”, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
• “Disarming Parables: Collection Highlights”, San Jose Museum of Art, CA

2001

• “49th Venice Biennale Exhibition”, Venice, Italy [catalogue]
• “Berlin Biennale II”, Berlin, Germany [catalogue]
• “Les Chiens Andalous”, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA [catalogue]
• “Contemporary Devotion”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

2000

• “Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA [catalogue]
• “Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium”, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
• 5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
• “Sammlung Falckenberg (Falckenberg Collection)”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
• “The Sensational Line”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO

1999

• Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway [catalogue]

1998

• “At Home and Abroad: 21 Contemporary Filipino Artists”, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA [catalogue]
• “Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA [catalogue]
• “Pop Surrealism”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT [catalogue]

1997

• “American Stories-Amidst Displacement and Transformation”, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan [catalogue]
• “Unmapping the Earth”, ‘97 Kwangju Biennial, Korea [catalogue]

1996

• “Annual Exhibition”, American Academy in Rome, Italy [catalogue]

1995

• “Eye Tattooed America”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
• “In the Light of Goya”, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1994

• “Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art”, The Asia Society, New York, NY [catalogue]
• “Jean-Michel Basquiat & Manuel Ocampo”, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• “Unholy Wars”, Postmasters, New York, NY

1993

• “43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [catalogue]
• “45th Venice Biennial, Drawing the Line Against Aids”, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy [catalogue]
• “Medialismo”, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy [catalogue]

1992

• “Documenta IX”, Documentahallen, Kassel, Germany [catalogue]
• “Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA [catalogue]

1991

• “Individual Realities in the California Art Scene”, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan [catalogue]
• “Mike Bidlo, Manuel Ocampo, Andres Serrano”, Saatchi Collection, London, UK

AWARDS
1998

• Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny Program

1996

• National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts

1995-96

• Rome Prize in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome

1995

• The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.par The Art Matters Foundation

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
• Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
• San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
• Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
• The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain
• Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
• IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
• Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, (CAAM) Canary Islands, Spain
• Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
• Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
• Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
• Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
• Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris, France
• Museo Berado, Lisboa, Portugal

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2005

• Manuel Ocampo, Bastards of Misrepresentation, Edicion Casia Asia, Barcelona, Spain

2002

• Art Now, 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium, Taschen
• Vitamin P, New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon

2001

• Les Chiens Andalous, Track 16 Gallery/Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA

2000

• Asian Collection 50, From the Collection of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

1999

• The Nature of Culture-Manuel Ocampo/Gaston Damag. Interventions in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
• The Inversion of the Ideal: Navigating the Landscape of Intestinal Muck, Swastikating between Love and Hate, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
• Why Must I Care For a Girl Who Always Scratches Wherever She Itches: 1-1/2 Centuries of Modern Art, Twelve Step Program, Delfina, London; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain

1998

• Yo Tambien Soy Pintura, Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain

1997

• Hacer Pintura es Hacer Patria, Galeria OMR, Mexico City
• Heridas de la Lengua, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA
• Station to Station, Edizioni Programma, Cagliari, Italy

1995

• Lussier, Real, “Serie Projet 15: Manuel Ocampo, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada

1994

• Virgin Destroyer: Manuel Ocampo, Hardy Marks Publications, Honolulu
• Chagoya, Enrique, “Notes for a Nonlinear Interpretation of the Work of Manuel Ocampo” The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
• Enriquez, Lucia. “Jean Michel Basquiat/Manuel Ocampo” Henry Art Gallery. Seattle, WA

1992

• Rinder, Lawrence. “History and Retribution in the Art of Manuel Ocampo” University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. May-June.

1991

• Kent, Sarah. “Mike Bidlo, Manuel Ocampo, Andres Serrano” Saatchi Collection. London. August.