Isobel Francisco is a Filipina visual artist. Since her first group show in December 2011, she has exhibited in Hong Kong, Germany, China, and various corners of Metro Manila, and she has been kindly featured on some print and online publications. Her works currently involve figurative tensions and narratives of anguish, loss, and the constant examination of what constitutes humanity.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 / “Aren’t We All Running II”, MONO8 Gallery
2022 / “THE MOTH / THE FLAME”, Village Art Gallery
2021 / “The Flood”, Provenance Gallery
2019 / “Aren’t We All Running”, Provenance Gallery
2018 / “Disposable Lives”, Metro Gallery at ArtistSpace Ayala Museum
2017 / “Recent Works”, Gallery Nine at ManilArt
2016 / “Remote_CTRL”, Qube Gallery
2016 / “Sea of Fertility”, Metro Gallery
2014 / “Icarus Smicarus”, Vinyl on Vinyl
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 / “Hard Fluid Betrayal”, Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany
2020 / “Almost Tension”, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany
2018 / “Common Birds” with Iyan de Jesus, Village Art Gallery
2018 / “INTUIT”, Ysobel Art Gallery
2018 / “Silk Road”, Provenance Art Gallery
2017 / “Differences II”, Artspace at Deustche Bank
2017 / “Fresh Ceremony”, Provenance Art Gallery
2017 / “All About Women”, Art Anton, Art Fair Philippines
2017 / “Kintsukuroi 2”, Pineapple Lab
2016 / “The Madtinkers’ Tea Party”, Gallery Nine, ManilArt
2016 / “Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event” with Eleanor Giron,
J Studio
2016 / “Blue House: Philippines” (Frida Kahlo tribute), Vinyl on Vinyl
2016 / “Sentiment & Dynamic Inertia”, Korean Cultural Center
Shanghai, China
2015 / “The Fe(male) Gaze”, Cevio Art Haus
2015 / “Bull in the Heather”, Art Center Megamall
2015 / “Memento Vivere / Memento Mori”, Metro Gallery
2015 / Asia Contemporary Art c/o Cevio Art Haus, Hong Kong
2014 / “Kintsukuroi” with Tokwa Peñaflorida, Altro Mondo
2014 / “DOMestication”, Post Gallery
2014 / “Novus Praeternatura”, A Space Manila
2014 / “EASE”, Tam-awan Village
2014 / “9to5″, Now Gallery and Auctions
2014 / “Chaos in Progress”, Cevio Art Haus
2014 / “The HEAT Show”, Sigwada Art Gallery
2014 / “Art is Fair: Democratizing Art Now!”, Kanto, The Collective
2013 / “Bloom Arts Festival 2013″, The Collective
2013 / “A Third Helping of Instant Doodles”, My Little Art Place
2012 / “Swarm”, Kanto, The Collective
2012 / “Bloom Arts Festival“, Cubao X
2012 / “Acid Asylum: A Roomful of Nightmares“, Vinyl on Vinyl
Awards
Artist’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center, USA, 2018
Finalist, Art Association of the Philippines (AAP) 68th Art Competition (Painting category), 2015
Selected Features
Filipino Artists in Their Studios Volume 2, 2018
Brave New World, 2022
Your All-Access Show (YAS), Lifestyle Network, 2018
“The Artists to Watch”, Philippine Tatler, 2019
“Meet the 30 Artists Under 30 Set to Rule the Local Art Scene”, Esquire, 2017
“Portrait of the Filipina as an Artist: The Women of ManilArt 2018”, Lifestyle Asia, 2018
“ManilAArt 2018”, Art Bahrain SPC, 2018
“The classic, the quirky, and more at ManilArt 2017”, Rappler, 2017
“How Philippine art differs from our ASEAN Neighbors’”, BusinessWorld, 2017
“Linya Erotika: Outlines you want to fill in”, Young Star, 2017
“Unity of Opposites: Isobel Francisco on Meaning and Madness”, Manila Bulletin, 2016
“Undisclosed Desires”, Scout Magazine, 2015-2016
“10 Filipino Artists You Should Follow on Instagram”, Spot.ph, 2015
“Art Is”, (Season 2 Episode 6), Thinking Man’s Classroom, 2015
“Broken Portraits”, Art+ Magazine, 2014
“Digital Illustrations by Isobel Francisco”, Juxtapoz Magazine, 2014
“KINTSUKUROI”, Philippine Tatler Homes, 2014
“A Fresh Slate”, Metro Home Magazine, 2014
GMA News: “‘Endangered Visions’ brings together mindscapes of acclaimed artists”, 2014
“The visual poetry of Katrina Pallon and Isobel Francisco”, The Philippine Star, 2013
“Art Blooms Again”, Young Star, Lifestyle Features, The Philippine Star, 2013
{m}aganda Magazine, University of California, Berkeley, “Broke” Issue, 2012
“Unusual Finds”, MyHome Magazine, 2012
Residencies
Art and History Museums Maitland, USA, 2023
BONFIRE, Spain (Online), 2021
Pilotenkueche, Germany, 2020
Vermont Studio Center, USA, 2018
Seminars and Workshops
Instructor, Ayala Museum Basic Oil Painting Workshop by Isobel Francisco, Ayala Museum, 2018
Panelist, Ateneo Heights Artists Workshop (8th), Ateneo de Manila University, 2017
Speaker, ARTEculate, St. Scholastica Manila College of Fine Arts, 2017
Speaker, Alipato x Palad Seminar by Heraldo Filipino, De La Salle University – Dasmariñas, 2016
Speaker, Multimedia Odyssey, Mapua Institute of Technology, 2015
Contact her via isobelfrancisco@gmail.com.