Born in Manila, Philippines, Maria Dumlao currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Her art has been exhibited and screened in Art in General and Momenta Art Gallery in NYC, The Contemporary Museum in Hawaii and internationally in Utrecht, Barcelona, Vancouver, London, Madrid, Berlin, and Tokyo. Dumlao has been awarded two residencies at Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY, and AIRtime residency at free103point9’s Wave Farm in Acra, NY and was most recently selected as a finalist for Public Art Fund's In The Public Realm. She received an MFA from Hunter College in 2003 and currently teaches at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, PA.
Dumlao also works collaboratively with artists Elaine Kaufmann, Danielle Mysliwiec, and Anne Polashenski as Brainstormers, with whom she has performed at Brooklyn Museum of Art, outside of both PS1 and the Armory Show and collaborated with the Guerrilla Girls for a project featured at the Bronx Museum of Art. They have co-written and co-published articles and photo essays in Women’s Studies Quarterly and Women & Environments International Magazine, as well as artists books funded by a grant from The Puffin Foundation. Brainstormers’ video received an Official Selection award for the 41st BAC International Film and Video Festival.
Dumlao is currently a member of Little Berlin, an artist-run collective and an undefined exhibition space, in Philadelphia.
July 2010
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