ISBN: 978-1-953189-07-3
January 2023, English, 5.3 x 7.6 in, 192 pages, full color, hardcover
Edition of 500
Design: Scott Ponik
With texts by Shirley Ancheta, Justin de Leon, Natalie Diaz, Joy Harjo, and Kim Nguyen
Influenced by the oral history of their family’s arrival to the United States from the Philippines, as well as the history between the two countries, Maia Cruz Palileo investigates larger questions pertaining to identity, history, migration, and concepts of time. Long Kwento stems from research Palileo initially conducted in 2017 at the Newberry Library in Chicago, one of the largest collections of Filipiniana in the Western world. In 2021, Palileo was invited to research the Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan as an artist in residence for the ReConnect/ReCollect project—a multidisciplinary, multigenerational group of faculty, librarians, archivists, curators, collections managers, and students working together to uncover how the objects that make up these collections were acquired, their colonial ties, and the academic systems of ordering these materials, while undertaking reparative work with the living community members from whose ancestors these objects were stolen.
Palileo recontextualizes these stories, portraits, and images in an attempt to resuscitate these figures from the exploitative gaze of these ethnographic images. This artist book integrates historical narratives from the colonial past of the Philippines with stories, images, and memories of Palileo’s life as a Filipinx American growing up in the United States. Combining Palileo’s extensive research with narratives of American Imperialism, beginning with the Filipino-American war, and the artist’s own understanding of a fractured and complex past, the work evokes nostalgia and romanticism while critiquing the ramifications of colonization, past and present.
Long Kwento is the latest chapter in Palileo’s ongoing, expansive project, which includes solo exhibitions presented at the American University Museum, Washington, DC (2018), Pioneer Works, New York (2018), The Wattis Institute at California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2021), and the Kimball Art Center, Park City (2022). An unfinished archive in and of itself, the book invites readers into Palileo’s process and the intimate relations that inform their research and work.
UPCOMING
Art Fair
February 15 - 19, 2023
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show
February 16 - July 9, 2023
Spirit in the Land
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
CURRENTLY ON VIEW
Group Show
November 4, 2022- July 9, 2023
A Point Stretched: Views on Time
San José Museum of Art, San José, CA
Group Show
April 30, 2022 - February 26, 2023
The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
Short Documentary
In the Making, American Masters, A new documentary short film by Ligaiya Romero: Maia Cruz Palileo: Becoming the Moon available on PBS website
NEWS
ARTiculated Podcast: Dispatches from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Season 2, Episode 8: By Gut and Heart: Painting with Kay WalkingStick
RECENT PRESS
NYFA, “Ask the Artists” Part 3: What is the Most Valuable Career Advice You’ve Ever Received?
Dazed, This exhibition confronts the Legacy of British colonialism
Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Ghosts of Empire II seeks to provoke conversation and questioning around British imperialism, by Zara Afthab
ArtReview Asia, Larry Ossei-Mensah: Art Surviving Imperialism
89.3 WFPL, 30% more of the Speed Art Museum's collection is coming out of storage and into public view, by Stephanie Wolf
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Magazine, Mending a History of Harm, by Gina Balibrera
Bentley Historical Library Magazine, The Mystery of the Unidentified Painting, by Lara Zielin and Sarah Derouin
Artsy, Artists Are Reimagining the Family Portrait to Be More Inclusive, by Ayanna Dozier
PAST EXHIBITIONS
October 13 - November 10, 2022
Contemporary Filipino American Art, LH Horton Jr. Gallery at San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
March 15 - July 11, 2022
The Nature of Family Portraits
Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
September 16 - October 22, 2022
Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
September 3–October 22, 2022
Jeffrey Deitch Los Angeles, CA
March 18 - May 30, 2022
Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
March 22 - May 14, 2022
Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
September 14 - December 4, 2021
Long Kwento, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
July 24 - November 27, 2021
Relations Diaspora and Painting
Esker Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
Catalogue available for purchase here
September 9-12, 2021
The Armory Show, Monique Meloche, FOCUS
Javits Center, New York, NY
March 6 - April 10, 2021
The Answer is the Waves of the Sea, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Digital Catalogue HERE
VIDEO: Virtual Walkthrough HERE
April 14 - 25, 2021
Contemporary Domesticity, Taymour Grahne Projects
Noho Studios, 46 Great Titchfield St, Fitzrovia London W1W 7QA
July 8 - November 29th, 2020
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting at PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal (Quebec)
February 8 – April 11, 2020
All of Them Witches at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
December 5-8, 2019
Art Basel Miami with Monique Meloche Gallery
June 15, 2019- August 11, 2019 / September 3-October 20, 2019
Maia Cruz Palileo at Katzen Arts Center American University, Washington DC
September 19-22, 2019
EXPO Chicago with Monique Meloche Gallery
July 11 - August 24, 2019
The Empathy Lab at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
June 20 - August 16, 2019
THEM at Perrotin, New York, NY
July 2 - 13, 2019
Cultural Cousins, Chashama, New York, NY
May 25 - June 17, 2019
I'm Made of Water at Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY
February 2 - March 30, 2019
All The While I Thought You Had Received This at Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
November 3 - December 1, 2018
Gold at Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
September 25 — October 7, 2018
The Way Back with Taymour Grahne, London, UK
February 2 - November 4, 2018
Face of the Future at The Rubin Museum, New York, NY
June 14 - September 16, 2018
Cast of Characters at LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
August 10 - 24, 2018
Junk Envy: Jordan Buschur and Maia Cruz Palileo at Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH
June 30 - July 7, 2018
USPS at Visual Arts, Architecture and Design School Free University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
May 17 - July 8, 2018
Meandering Curves of a Creek at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY