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Pope Bacay
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Pope Bacay’s (b. 1994) paintings explore the idea of home through fragments of architecture and shifting landscapes. His works draw on the houses he has lived in and the places he has passed through, transforming windows, rooftops, tiles, and horizons into contemplative images. Sometimes precise, sometimes intuitive, these forms become vessels for memory and belonging, suggesting that place is less about geography than about sensation and recall.
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Biography
Pope Bacay (b. 1994), born and raised in Roxas, Oriental Mindoro, later moved to Manila with his siblings, where frequent relocations shaped his view of home as situational, defined more by comfort than permanence. He graduated cum laude in Studio Arts (Painting) from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2015 and is now based in Manila.
Since then, he has presented his work in solo and group exhibitions locally and abroad. His exhibition Viewfinder (Tin-Aw Art Gallery, 2018) examined windows as carriers of narrative, while Lures from the Other Land (Artinformal, 2022) featured Lucy’s Land, his largest work to date, based on his grandmother’s farm. His recent solo exhibition How to Move Beyond the Landscape (Finale Art File, 2025) expands this exploration into panoramic canvases that merge personal memory with broader, imagined terrains.
Bacay’s practice continues to grow more personal, blending fragments of architecture, landscape, and absence into images that hold both intimacy and openness. His paintings invite viewers to find their own sense of belonging in the everyday, elevating ordinary forms into spaces of memory and contemplation.
CV
- Education
- 2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Studio Arts, Cum Laude, College of Fine Arts University of the Philippines, Diliman
- SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2025 How to Move Beyond The Landscape, tin-aw Art Projects, Finale Art File, Makati
- 2024 Walking is Dwelling, Artinformal, Makati
- 2023 No Where, Now Here, West Gallery, Quezon City
- 2022 Lures from the other lands, Artinformal, Makati
- 2020 Locus, Underground Gallery, Makati
- 2018 Tagbalay, Kapitana Art Gallery, Talisay City, Negros Occidental Viewfinder, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Makati
- 2017 Median Landscape, Artinformal Gallery, Greenhills
- 2016 (t)here, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Makati City
- TWO-MAN EXHIBITIONS
- 2021 Home is not an address you memorize, Mo_space, Bonifacio High Street, Taguig
- 2016 Temporal Places, West Gallery, Quezon City
- SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS
- 2025 Art Jakarta 2025, Artinformal
- 2025 intersections: Peak Together 2025, Gravity Art Space, Bangkok
- 2025 Art SG 2025, Artinformal, Singapore
- 2024 Further Along This Tree, We’ll Know About The Moon, Gravity Art Space, Quezon City
- 2024 ALT Philippines, Artinformal, SMX Hall 4, MOA Pasay City
- 2024 In the event there is an image: Realism and the Everyday, Ames Yavuz, Singapore
- 2024 Totalidad, Finale Art File, Quezon City
- 2023 Spice of Life (Bunso Inagural Show), Bunso, Quezon City
- 2023 Garden of Good & Evil, Gravity Art Space, Quezon City
- 2023 Knowing Where Things Are, Gravity Art Space, Quezon City
- 2023 Totalidad, Finale Art File, Quezon City
- 2023 To be sure, Tht senses decieve, Bencab Museum, Baguio City
- 2022 Christmas Group Show, Finale Art File, Quezon City
- 2022 13 Kinds of Silence, Underground Gallery, Makati
- 2022 Of Forms of Meanings, Underground Gallery, Makati
- 2022 Free Verses, West Gallery, Quezon City
- 2020 The Future of Our World as it is known to Caribou, Artinformal, Makati
- 2020 Searching Sanctuary, Silverlens Galleries, Makati City
- 2020 Off the Shelf, Signum Contemporary Objects, Art Fair Philippines
- 2020 Sex, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Art Fair Philippines
- 2019 Fathom: The Monumental in Art Series, Orange Project in collaboration with Tin-aw Art Management, Philippines
- 2019 Working Condition, West Gallery, Quezon City
- 2019 Things We Make, Underground Gallery, Makat
- 2019 Lorem Ipsum, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Makati
- 2019 Fake Sparks, Sampaguita Projects, Quezon City
- 2019 Trove, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Art Fair Philippines
- 2018 Deathcleaners, Artinformal Gallery, Greenhills
- 2018 Bugnaw, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Art Fair Philippines
- 2017 Per Square Inch, The Drawing Room, Makati City
- 2017 As Far As Near As Deep As Wide and Tall, Galerie Roberto, Muntinlupa City
- 2017 Drop Off Point, Underground Gallery, Makati
- 2017 Odds and Ends, Vinyl on Vinyl, Makati
- 2017 Mona Lisa Project, West Gallery, Quezon City
- 2016 Temporal Places (two artist exhibition with Ayka Go), West Gallery, Quezon City
- 2016 Our Kitchen Counter, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Art Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 2016 Familiar Strangeness, Underground Gallery, Makati
- 2016 #TAGTANONG, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Makati
- 2016 Begin, Artinformal Gallery, Greenhills
- 2015 Paperview 15: Rapid Cycling, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon Province
- 2015 Volume 3, Issue 4, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Makati
- 2015 Timelapse, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Makati
- 2014 Kandinsky, J Studio, Makati City
- 2014 8 Minutes, Shift Project Art Space, Taguig
- 2014 Meditations and Musings, West Gallery, Quezon City
- 2014 7 Deadly Sins, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City
- 2014 Identity Place Fantasy, Galleria Duemila, Pasay
- 2013 Pieces from Sources, Amorsolo Hall, Quezon City
- 2013 Eyes of Gauze: The Trails and Mists of Santiago Bose’s Vision, Tin-Aw Art Gallery, Makati
- 2013 Artist book, Amorsolo Hall, Quezon City
- 2013 Bose: After ten years, Corredor Gallery, Quezon City
