Joy Mallari is currently making installation works to foreground her ideas. She is known for a visual style similar to the contemporary Filipino figurative expressionism common among members of the Grupong Salimpusa and Sanggawa art movements, but distinguished by a narrative approach which one critic has described as exploring “the linkages between literature and art”- an approach which she attributes to her exposure to the pre-digital animation industry during her developmental years as an artist.
She is also known for exploring themes of identity and marginalization in Philippine society.
The children’s book “Doll Eyes”, which she co-created with writer Eline Santos, won the National Children’s Book Award in 2011.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2016. Decoder, Tin-aw Gallery, Art Fair Philippines 2015, The Link, Makati, Philippines.
Ulilang Kaluluwa, Pinto Art Museum, Antipolo City, Philippines.
2014. Witness, Finale Gallery, La Fuerza Compound, Makati City, Philippines.
Illuminations, Art Fair Philippines, Tin-aw Gallery, Makati City, Philippines.
2013. Scribe, Secret Fresh, Greenhills, San Juan, Philippines.
2010. Doll Eyes, Ayala Museum Glass Wing, Makati City, Philippines
2008. Rekwerdo, Sitio Remedios, Ilocos Norte for the Silangan Foundation
Perennial, Art Verite, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Philippines
2007. Lilim, Boston Gallery, Manila, Philippines.
2006. Manibalang, Pinto Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines.
Ulinig, Pinto Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2017. ArtJog 10. Changing Perspectives, Jogja National Museum, Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
Walls, Tin-aw Gallery, Art Fair Philippines, The Link, Makati, Philippines.
2016. Drawing Show, The Drawing Room, Bazaar Art Jakarta, Indonesia.
2015. You must change your life, Equator Art Projects, Gillman Barracks, Singapore.
2014. You look the same as us but you don’t speak the same language, Equator Art Projects, Gillman Barracks, Singapore.
Do you believe in Angels?, Mo_Space, Bonifacio High Street, Taguig City, Philippines, Equator Art Projects, Gillman Barracks, Singapore.
2013. Re:view 2013 Show, Bencab Museum, Benguet, Philippines
2012. Re:view 2012 Show, Bencab Museum, Benguet, Philippines
2011. Re:view 2011 Show , Bencab Museum, Benguet, Philippines
Ciento Cincuenta, Pinto Gallery, Antipolo City, Philippines
Relevant Rizal?, Looking for Juan, Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines,
Monumental, Manila Contemporary, Makati City, Philippines
2010. Alay, Boston Gallery, Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines
Pinto Art Museum, Antipolo City, Rizal, Philippines
Re:view 2010 Show, Bencab Museum, Benguet, Philippines
Soundbyte, Tin‐aw Art Gallery, Makati City, Philippines
Cross Over, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009. Diminishing Returns, Tin-aw Art Gallery, Makati City, Philippines
2008. Assembly Line, Tin-aw Art Gallery, Makati City, Philippines
Alay 10 Art Center, SM Megamall, Manila, Philippines
ReVisions, Eco-logical Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.
2007. Convergence: Faces of Filipino Contemporary Art, Art Space, Royal Plaza on Scotts, Singapore
2006. Off the Wall 2, DejaDesign Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
2005. Sign Language, DejaDesign Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Off The Wall, DejaDesign Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
12:00, West Gallery, Manila, Philippines.
Create: Fixate, Downtown, Los Angeles, California.
2004. Everything But the Kitschen Sync, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Mujeres En El Arte, Espresso Mi Cultura, Los Angeles, California.
Tarfest, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Mujeres de Juarez: Art Against Crime, Hispanic Museum of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada.
2003. Global Eye, Asto Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Mujeres Del Norte, Galeria del Instituto de Baja California, Tijuana, S.C. Mexico.
2002. Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artists, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Lantern of the East Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California.
Periphery, El Patio de Frida, Artspace, Los Angeles, California.
Eclectic LA, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, California.
“Touch Me Not”, Espreso Mi Kultura, Los Angeles, California.
2001. 10th Osaka Triennale, Osaka, Japan.
2000. Philippine Art Awards, Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philippines.
Asean Art Awards, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
Faith + The City, Singapore Art Museum; National Art Gallery, Malaysia; Metropolitan Museum Manila, Philippines.
12th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia.*
1998. At Home and Abroad: 20 Contemporary Filipino Artists,” Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.*
Hakata Riverrain Project, Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.*
1997. Glimpses into the Future, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.*
1996. Traditions Tensions: Contemporay Art in Asia, The Asia Society of New York, Grey Art Gallery NYU, Queens Museum NY.*
Container 96: Art Across Oceans, Port of Copenhagen, Denmark.*
Asia Pacific Art Triennale: Contemporary Art in Asia, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia.*
Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora, Univeristy of California, Irvine, California.*
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:
2012
National Children’s Book Award
2005
Solidarity Award, PWC, Los Angeles, California.
2004
Tarfest Juried show, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
2001
Finalist, Osaka Triennale.
2000
Jurors Choice Awards, Asean Art Award, Manila, Philippines.
*As part of the Sanggawa Art Collective