Artist

Rocky Acofo Cajigan

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    Artworks

    Autocolonial 

    2022

    Human Hair, Thread, Found Metal Helmet, Dutch Leaf, Acrylic Paint, Polyester Felt, 440 x 25 x 25 cm

    Artist Bio

    (b. 1988, La Trinidad, Benguet, the Philippines)

    Rocky Acofo Cajigan is a Bontok-Kankanaey visual artist. His work in painting, installation, and assemblage explores material culture, indigeneity, and museology. He became a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council – New York Fellowship in 2023. He won the Ateneo Art Awards Fernando Zobel Prize for Visual Art in 2016 and was shortlisted in 2023. He is a recipient of the Thirteen Artists Awards in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2024. His work has been exhibited at the 10th Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia. His last solo presentation, Place of Origin, was presented at The Drawing Room in Makati, Philippines in 2023.

    Cajigan lives and works in La Trinidad, Benguet, the Philippines. 

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