Celline Marge Mercado
b. 1997, Philippines
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Art (forthcoming, 2024)
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
BFA Information Design, BFA Art Management,
Minor in Japanese Studies (2019)
Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Philippines
Summer Session (2018)
Waseda University
Tokyo, Japan
Jesuit Educational Exchange Program (2017)
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, California, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Somehow I can't stop eating
24 June - 5 August 2022
Galleria Duemila, Pasay City, Philippines
A Soft Place to Land
3 - 24 July 2022
Pintô Art Museum, Antipolo, Philippines
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, forthcoming / Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition
RMIT University, City Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2024 / Refuse (as noun), curated by Justyne Allen
Pop-up exhibition at the Nicholas Building, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2023 / Illuminations, curated by Carlomar Daoana
Pintô Art Museum, Antipolo, Philippines
2023 / Object Orientations, curated by Carlos Quijon Jr.
Gravity Art Space, Quezon City, Philippines
2023 / Umbilicus, curated by Jan Sunday
Kalawakan Spacetime, Quezon City, Philippines
2023 / The Wild Garden of Childhood, curated by Empty Scholar
Modeka Art Space, Makati City, Philippines
2023 / Eat Only When You're Angry
Space Encounters Gallery, Pasig City, Philippines
2022 / First Edition
Cartellino, Mandaluyong, Philippines
2021 / Hitherto IV: Lamentations, curated by Leslie de Chavez
Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
2020 / Marciano Galang Acquisition Prize
Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2020 / For My Eyes Only
The Grey Space, San Juan City, Philippines
2018 / The Tiny Show
Prism Gallery, Makati City, Philippines
2017 / Thinking FWD: The 18th Thacher Annual
Thacher Gallery, San Francisco, USA
PROJECTS
In the Spaces We Mend
Curatorial
16 March - 29 April 2019
Rizal Library Special Collections
Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Philippines
Between the Lines
Practice-led research
July 2022 - June 2024
RMIT University, City Campus
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
AWARDS
Marciano Galang Acquisition Prize (2020)
Shortlisted
Ateneo Art Gallery
Quezon City, Philippines
Loyola Schools Award for the Arts (2019)
Winner for Mixed Media, Visual Arts
Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Philippines
Ateneo Socio Civic Engagement for National Development Awards (2019)
Citation for the project 'In the Spaces We Mend'
Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Philippines
Thacher Annual (2017)
Curator's Choice Award
Thacher Gallery
San Francisco, California, USA
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
“The Art of Celline Mercado” in The Art of the Domestic (2022)
Department of Fine Arts
Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Philippines
“Introspective Art” in Heights Art Staff Training Talk (2022)
Heights Ateneo
Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Philippines
“The Making of In the Spaces We Mend” in Beyond Indelible Pain: History, Memory, and the Actuality of Wartime Violence (2019)
Ateneo Japanese Studies Program
Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Philippines
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Associate Creative Producer
Student Life, Creative, RMIT University (2023 - present)
Executive for Marketing
RMIT Master of Fine Art Graduation Club (2023 - 2024)
Curatorial Assistant
Metropolitan Museum of Manila (2021 - 2022)
Research Assistant
Ateneo Art Gallery (2021)
Art Editor
Heights Ateneo (2017 - 2018)