Jet works with various media such as drawing, painting, video, sculptures, installation and objects. His production also involve organizing and activism, which he practices under the Small Projects initiative in Tromsø. Many of his artworks are temporal in nature. Temporal both in terms of time, with the use of found objects disassembled and returned after an exhibition. Temporal also in terms of its secularity and critique of established beliefs. He works conceptually and claims no particular style, although his artistic production often revolve around the question of being, or what it means to exist.
Born in the Philippines, now an immigrant here in Norway, formerly married to a Sami woman and father to three young Sami-Filipino children. That situation of being in a cultural gap, being in between different cultures is a place Jet continues to navigate in. Concepts such as identity, nationalism, home, presence and absence are some of the questions Jet tries to wrestle with in an effort to make sense of his place and responsibility in this contemporary reality.
In a lecture in 2007, Chilean artist Afredo Jaar started with the question: “How do we make art when the world is in such a state?” Like him, Jet sees every work that he does as an attempt to address such an important question.
Utdannelse
2020 The Norwegian Artistitc Research Programme – UiT (Stipendiat programmet for kunst)
2009 Kunstakademiet i Bergen, Bergen, Master i kunst
2007 Kunstakademiet i Oslo, Oslo
1993 University of the Philippines – College of Fine Arts, Manila, Philippines
Utstillinger
Separatutstilling
2022 Sami Centre for Contemporary Art, Karasjok
2021 HilbertRaum, Berlin; Terminal B, Kirkenes
2020 Galleri Stamsund, Stamsund; The Drawing Room Gallery, Manila
2019 HilbertRaum, Berlin
2018 Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø
2016 Silverlens Gallery, Manila; Nordland Academy of Arts and Sciences, Melbu
2015 Galleri Stamsund; Pushwagner Gallery, Oslo; Hardanger Folkemuseum
2014 Galleri Snerk, Tromsø
2013 One Night Only, UKS Oslo; Gallery 3H+KPori, Finland; West Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2012 Silverlens Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2010 Silverlens Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2009 Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo
2007 West Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2005 Galleri 21:25, Oslo
2003 West Gallery, Manila, Philippines
Gruppe-/kollektivutstilling
2013 City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand; Silverlens Gallery, Singapore
2012 Video Guerrilha, Sao Paolo, Brasil; Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo; .NO Gallery, New York; Tromsø Kunstforening Museum, Tromsø; What A Mess Art Fair, Fredrikstad
2011 Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh; Harstad Kunstforening, Harstad; Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philippines; Metal at Edge Hill Station, Liverpool; Galleri BOA, Oslo; Jakarta Art Biennale, Jakarta
2010 Shoreditch Town Hall Basement, London; West Gallery, Manila, Philippines; Para/Site Art Space, Hong KTate Modern Museum, London; Gallery Loop, Seoul, South Korea
2009 Fotogalleriet, Oslo; 1AM Gallery, San Francisco; Kunsthall, Bergen
2008 Gallery Wallywoods, Berlin; USF, Bergen; Kaiskur 9, Tromsø
2007 Stenersen Museet, Oslo; Mo Space, Manila, Philippines; Galleri 21:25, Oslo
2006 UKS, Oslo; KIASMA, Helsinki
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
2020 Art Residency – Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes
2020 1-YEAR ARTIST WORK STIPEND – Billedkunstneres Vederlagsfond (BKV)
2020 PROJECT STIPEND – Norske Billedkunstnere (NBK)
2020 ARTIST STIPEND – Tromsø kommune
2019 PLANTING RICE CURATORIAL RESEARCH RESIDENCY, San Francisco, CA
2019 ARTIST STIPEND – Tromsø kommune
2019 ARTIST TRAVEL GRANT – Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)
2019 DIVERSE ART STIPEND – Norwegian Arts Council
2016 PROJECT SUPPORT- Norwegian Arts Council
2017 2-YEAR ARTIST WORK STIPEND – Norwegian Artist Association (NBK)
2015 NORTH NORWEGIAN ARTIST CENTER LOFOTEN – Artist Residency
2015 NORWEGIAN ARTS COUNCIL – 1-Yr Funding for Artist-run-space
2014 NORWEGIAN ARTS COUNCIL – Curatorial Project Support
2014 OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (OCA) –Travel Grant for Manifesta 10
2013 NORWEGIAN ARTS COUNCIL – Artistic Project Support
2013 3-YEAR ARTIST WORK STIPEND (Arbeidstipend) Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond (BKH)
2013 NORWEGIAN ARTS COUNCIL – 2-Year Support Cultural Projects
2012 OCA – Participation in the Condition Report Symposium, Dakar
2012 TROMS COUNTY CULTURE DEPT – Annual Artist Grant
2012 NORWEGIAN ARTS COUNCIL – Artistic Project Stipend
2011 NORWEGIAN EMBASSY JAKARTA – Support for Jakarta Biennale participation
2011 NORSK BILLEDKUNSTNERES VEDERLAGSFOND- Project Stipend
2011 OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (OCA) – Travel Grant, Jakarta Biennale
2011 HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PROGRAMME – Curatorial Residency
2010 NORWEGIAN ARTS COUNCIL -3-yr Grant for Artist-Run-Space
2009 BILDENDE KUNSTNERES HJELPEFOND – MA Project Award
2008 EUROPEAN LEAGUE OF INSTITUTES OF THE ARTS – Film Project Grant
2008 NORWEGIAN ARTS COUNCIL – Curatorial Project Stipend
2006 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER – Artist Residency
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