Artist Bio
From the islands of the Philippines and now back in the Bay Area,Cece Carpio paints people and places working towards a more dignified existence. Using acrylic, ink, aerosol and installations, her work tells stories of immigration, ancestry, resistance and resilience. She documents evolving traditions by combining folkloric forms, bold portraits and natural elements with urban art techniques.
She has produced and exhibited work in the Philippines, Fiji Islands, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Italy, Norway and throughout the United States. She has previously been awarded the New York Foundation of the Art Immigrant Artist Fellowship, a teaching resideny at Café R.E.D & La Botica Espacio Cultural at Xela, Guetemala, and recently was awarded a residency with KulArts at SOMA San Francisco– the premier presenter of contemporary and tribal Pilipino arts in the United States–. She has also guest lecture at New School in New York, California College of the Arts in Oakland, and produced work for the Multicultural Community Center at UC Berkeley. Cece Carpio is currently working with Juana Alicia in the True Colors Mural Project at Berkeley City College sponsored by Earth Island Institute and teaching arts education at East Oakland School of the Arts.
She can often be found collaborating with her crew, Trust Your Struggle, teaching, and traveling around the world in pursuit of the perfect wall.