Pam Quinto (b. 1991, Quezon City) is an artist, curator, and writer. Her practice articulates a sense of intimacy and vulnerability in which remnants of memory, sympathy to the human psyche, and thematics of the feminine are seen and felt. Through an embracing attentiveness to process and intricate details, Quinto foils logics of production and objectifying material. She navigates tensions between creation and destruction by mingling craft and experiment, and subverts viewer roles through works that invite interaction and participation. Quinto's interdisciplinary practice encompasses various mediums such as ceramics, photography, installation, text, and performance.
Read MoreQuinto graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, with a Major in Painting, in 2014 from the University of the Philippines, from which she received the Outstanding Thesis and the Gawad Tanglaw awards for her undergraduate thesis. In the same year, she became part of the inaugural batch of the Artery Mentorship Program organized by Artery Art Space in Manila.
She is the founder and curator of Parcel Exhibitions, a portable exhibition modality developed in response to the arts immobility caused by the pandemic. Parcel Exhibitions has also recently been selected for Para Site HK's No Exit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour.
Quinto has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Manila and elsewhere, including Errant Life, Promiscuous Form (2021), at Gravity Art Space; Art Moments Jakarta; Figure-proof (2020) at A+ Works of Art; A will for prolific disclosures (2020) at The Drawing Room; Double Double, Moore in Trouble (2019) at Tin-Aw Gallery; For Every Atom Belonging to Me (2019) at the Sampaguita Art Projects; and Kabit at Sabit (2019), a one-day simultaneous presentation of multi-site site-specific projects all-over the archipelago organized by Load na Dito Projects (Mark Salvatus and Mayumi Hirano); to name the most recent.
Text courtesy SILVERLENS.
