Carlos Quijon, Jr. is Chief Curator of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Contemporary Art Museum. He was the inaugural C-MAP Fellow for Southeast and East Asia at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2024-26) and 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 publications such as e-flux, Frieze, and Artforum. His essays are part of the books Writing Presently (Manila: Philippine Contemporary Art Network, 2019), From a History of Exhibitions Towards a Future of Exhibition-Making: China and Southeast Asia (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019), and SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia (Berlin: Weiss Publications, 2022). He is an alumnus of the Ateneo National Writers Workshop in Manila and 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 has done curatorial residencies with the Singapore Art Museum (2024), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2025), and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2026). 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 (2021-22), and Busan (2022). He is the curator of the exhibition series Archipelagic Futurisms, editions of which have been presented in New York, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, and Manila. In 2025, he co-curated Ecos e Miragens (Echoes and Mirages) in Sao Paulo, exploring artistic affinities between Latin America and Southeast Asia. He curated the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. 

Guest speaker: Carlos Quijon, Jr. 

Title: Transcolonial Horizons: The Archipelagic as Curatorial Method

Date: 9 October 2026 (Friday)

Time: 14:00-16:00

Venue: 1F Lecture Hall, MoNTUE

Image credit: Mark Salvatus, Watermarks, 2024

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