파시타 아바드(Pacita Abad, 1946-2004)는 필리핀 정치활동가의 가정에서 태어났다. 1960년대 말, 페르디난드 마르코스(Ferdinand Marcos)의 군부독재에 반대하는 학생운동을 주도한 아바드는 정치적 박해를 피해 미국으로 이민했다. 아바드는 1970년 샌프란시스코에 정착했고 이 시기에 Lone Mountain College에서 아시아 역사를 공부하며 아시아계 미국인의 정치와 문화활동에 적극적으로 참여했다. 1973년, 그의 동반자 잭 개리티(Jack Garrity)를 만나 터키에서 필리핀까지 육로로 여행하며 이란, 아프가니스탄, 파키스탄, 인도, 스리랑카, 미얀마, 태국, 라오스 등 아시아 전역을 가로지르는 순회 여정을 시작했다. 초국가적인 경험과 아시아 각지에서 만난 전통적이미지의 가변성은 그의 예술 활동에 풍요로운 자양분이 되었다. 특히 1983년부터 2003년까지 여러 차례 서울을 방문하였고 한옥과 수묵화, 한국의 공예에 깊은 흥미를 갖기도 했다. 1988년 국립현대미술관 과천에서 열린 《국제현대회화전》과 2003년 예술의전당 한가람미술관에서 개최한 서울 국제 여성 아트페어에서 작업이 소개된바 있다. 긍정적인 삶의 태도로 일관한 아바드는 2004년 12월 7일, 3년간의 암 투병 끝에 향년 58세의 나이로 타계했다.
아바드는 트라푼토(trapunto) 회화로 잘 알려져 있다. 형형색색의 선명한 색감이 특징적인 아바드의 작업은 손으로 꿰맨 직물, 스팽글, 구슬, 단추, 조개 등 작가가 발견한 방대한 재료들을 천 위에 겹쳐 누빔ㆍ바느질로 이어 붙이는 독특한 방식으로 완성된다. 낯선 땅에서 삶을 일구며 살아가는 이민자와 그들의 공동체를 묘사하는 사실주의 회화에서부터 추상회화에 이르기까지 다양한 주제를 포괄하고 있다. 아바드는 2004년에 타계하기까지 탈식민주의와 페미니즘, 국가적 정체성을 초월한 디아스포라의 삶을 친밀한 시선으로 공감하며 5,000여 점이 넘는 아름다운 작품을 남겼다. 인종주의와 난민 혐오, 이주 노동자 문제 등 여전히 해결되지 않는 동시대의 초 국가적 문제들을 환기하며 우리에게 많은 것을 시사한다.
파시타 아바드는 1980년대부터 주요 미술관에 전시에 참여했으며, 대표적인 전시로는 《Second Contemporary Asian Art Show》(후쿠오카 미술관, (1985), 《La Segunda Bienal de la Habana》(쿠바, 1986), 《Beyond the Borders: Art by Recent Immigrants》(브롱크스 미술관, 1994), 등이 있다. 작가는 작고 이후에도 제11회 베를린 비엔날레(2020)를 포함한 주목할 만한 전시회에서 초청되었으며, 제13회 광주비엔날레(2021), 제4회 카트만두 트리엔날레(2022) 등 주목할 만한 전시회에서 초청되었다. 그리고 2020년에는 뉴욕 아시아 소사이어티가 주최한 순회 전시에 참여했다.
시대적 담론을 앞서 갔던 그의 작업은 최근 주요 미술기관에서 아시아계 예술가들에 대한 재조명 이 활발해지며 다시 주목받고 있다. 2023년 봄, 미니애폴리스 워커아트센터 (Walker Arts Center)에서 순회를 시작하는 아바드의 대규모 회고전은 2023년 10월 21일부터 2024년 2월 11일까지 샌프란시스코 현대미술관(San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)에서도 전시될 예정이다. 파시타 아바드의 대표작들은 런던 테이트 모던(Tate Modern), 뉴욕 구겐하임미술관(Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), 홍콩 M+ 미술관, 국립현대미술관 그리고 싱가포르 국립 미술관(National Gallery Singapore) 등 주요 기관에 소장되어 있다.
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Pacita Abad
Art Gallery of Ontario 9 October 2024 - 19 January 2025A vivid kaleidoscope of color, the first major retrospective dedicated to artist Pacita Abad makes its only Canadian stop at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Spanning her 32-year...Learn More -
Underwater Wilderness
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Foreigners Everywhere (featuring Pacita Abad)
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Pacita Abad
MoMA PS1 4 April - 2 September 2024The first retrospective of artist Pacita Abad (b. Philippines, 1946–2004) will unfold across MoMA PS1’s third-floor galleries. Spanning the artist’s 32-year career, the exhibition includes more than 50 works—most of...Learn More -
Pacita Abad
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Walker Art Center
Pacita Abad 15 April 2023We are pleased to announce Pacita Abad, the first retrospective of the artist, opening at the Walker Art Center on April 15th. Featuring significant and rarely-seen works from across Abad’s...Learn More -
Is it morning for you yet? | The 58th Carnegie International
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The Cumulative Effect
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Jameel Arts Centre
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Spike Island
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Pacita Abad: A Million Things to Say
MCAD Manila 12 April - 1 July 2018Pacita Abad: A Million Things To Say presents the artist’s work within the discourse generated by her trapuntos – stitched, padded and quilted paintings that she began in the late...Learn More
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Pacita Abad: Underwater Wilderness
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Pacita Abad: Colors of My Dream
Exhibition Video June 10, 2023Installation video of Pacita Abad: Colors of My Dream at Tina Kim Gallery (May 18–June 24, 2023). Video courtesy of Tina Kim Gallery. Video by Hyunjung RheeLearn More
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‘Pacita Abad’ is a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the late artist’s work
stir world November 1, 2024The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Canada is currently presenting Pacita Abad, the Canadian leg of the first major retrospective by the eponymous...Learn More -
Venice Stars Dominate the Opening of Frieze London, But the Fair’s Controversial New Layout Is the Real Buzz
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Toronto Best Bets: October 8-14 —Art Month, Tynomi Banks, Halloween Events, & More
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‘Chances of Contact: Contemporary Prints from the Philippines and Singapore’: A masterful curation organised by STPI and The M
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Raphael Fonseca's Top Picks from Frieze Viewing Room
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She expanded consciousness with her exuberant use of colour. A bold new AGO show spotlights an underrated artist’s singular career
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The Chelsea Art Walk
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The Charismatic Vitality of Pacita Abad’s Trapuntos
The New Yorker August 23, 2024The Filipina artist Pacita Abad—who visited at least sixty countries, learning from Afghan embroidery, Mexican muralism, Javanese dyeing, Sri Lankan masks, and Pakistani quilts—makes me...Learn More -
How Pacita Abad Wove a Multicultural Tapestry of Humanity
Observer August 20, 2024In recent years, there has been a significant resurgence of interest in women’s textile practices. No longer confined to the undervalued realm of craft, they...Learn More -
Pacita Abad Retrospective Headed to Toronto
Ocula August 16, 2024The eclectic artist Pacita Abad received her first retrospective last year, organised by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where it was first shown. The...Learn More -
Pacita Abad, MoMA PS1 review — the joy of colour and a magpie instinct
Financial Times August 13, 2024Pacita Abad’s giant artworks have staged a friendly takeover of MoMA PS1 in New York. They’ve infiltrated the ordinarily gloomy galleries, animated the walls and...Learn More -
Pacita Abad, Larger Than Life
ArtReview August 13, 2024Inspired by scuba dives off the Philippine coast, Abad paints an underwater world at once wild and interdependent In the darkened gallery, seven monumental padded...Learn More -
Stitch by Stitch, Pacita Abad Crossed Continents and Cultures
The New York Times August 1, 2024About a year before she died of cancer, in 2004, at the age of 58, the artist Pacita Abad and a team painted a pedestrian...Learn More -
What I'm Looking At: Museum Quality Malcolm Morley, Borna Sammak's Beautiful Scenesters, and more
Artnet July 25, 2024“What I’m Looking At” a column where I digest art worth seeing, and whatever else is on my mind. Below, thoughts on what’s in the...Learn More -
Shows to See in July 2024
Art Asia Pacific July 12, 2024Pacita Abad Underwater Wilderness Tina Kim Gallery New York Jun 27–Aug 16 “Underwater Wilderness” presents eight monumental trapuntos (stuffed quilting) by the late Filipina...Learn More -
Pacita Abad Sees the Soul of an Artifact
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Pacita Abad’s Plunge into the Deep
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Tina Kim Illuminates the 6 Best of Basel in June
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What Not to Miss During Frieze New York
W Magazine May 3, 2024Something about this year’s edition of Frieze New York put us in mind of Miami and Palm Beach palaces, where chunky colorful work thrives alongside...Learn More -
Seven Artists with Unconventional Art Journeys at Frieze New York
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5 Standouts From the 2024 Venice Biennale
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Overlooked During Her Lifetime, Filipino American Artist Pacita Abad Has Suddenly Become a Global Star
VOGUE April 19, 2024It’s easy to see why Pacita Abad’s work resonated with Faith Ringgold. Like her American counterpart, Abad—a native of Basco, Batanes, in the Philippines—was also...Learn More -
Pacita Abad Threaded Together Bold Solidarities
The AMP April 19, 2024Tucked away in a corner of MoMA PS1’s third floor exhibition space, a digitally restored interview with the late artist Pacita Abad loops on a...Learn More -
Double Vision: Artists at the 60th Venice Biennale and Frieze New York 2024
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Pacita Abad Wove the Women of the World Together
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Pacita Abad Stitched the Immigrant Experience into Her Embroidered Paintings
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Highlights from Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
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Change is in the Air I-V
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Fog Design + Art Fair Celebrates 10 Years With Swift Sales and Artist-First Programming
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In San Francisco for FOG? Don't Miss These 7 Exhibitions Around the City
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See Inside the Revelatory Retrospective for Filipino American Artist Pacita Abad
Artnet News January 2, 2024In 1970, 24-year-old Pacita Abad left her home in the Philippines, fleeing political persecution after leading a student protest against the Marcos regime. She was...Learn More -
Pacita Abad
E-Flux December 22, 2023To discuss the life of Pacita Abad is to enumerate the diverse places to which she traveled (some sixty countries across six continents), her expansive...Learn More -
Filipino artist Pacita Abad’s ‘vibrant spirit of rebellion’ lives on at SFMOMA
SF Chronicle November 14, 2023Color is everywhere in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s exuberant Pacita Abad exhibition, the first major career retrospective of the peripatetic Filipino artist....Learn More -
Pacita Abad A Revelation At San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
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At SFMOMA, Pacita Abad’s Painted Textiles Stare Right Back
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The Decades-Strong Path of Color Set Ablaze By Pacita Abad
Vogue September 17, 2023Pio Abad reflects on the exuberant work of his aunt, the Batanes-born, world-traveling artist Pacita Abad, whose immense retrospective blazes its way across North America....Learn More -
Pacita Abad
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The 100 Greatest New York City Artworks, Ranked
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A 350-Page Tribute to Pacita Abad’s Boundless Art
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Pacita Abad’s Stitching Traverses the Globe
FRIEZE July 7, 2023I had to resist the urge, walking through Pacita Abad’s retrospective at Walker Art Center, to wrap myself in one of the artist’s colourful, hand-embroidered,...Learn More -
Taking Liberty
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ARTnews May 27, 2023As Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month winds down, it’s important to note how many AAPI artists, architects, collectors, and activists have changed the...Learn More -
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Vivid Colors Erupt At Frieze, Large-Scale Abstract And Figurative Works By Women Artists Wow
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Coloring in the Margins: Pacita Abad
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Racket April 14, 2023Pacita Abad hated white walls. So, for her retrospective exhibition at the Walker Art Center, the galleries have been painted: pale pink, golden yellow, deep...Learn More -
First-of-its-kind retrospective of Filipino artist Pacita Abad opens at the Walker
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Pacita Abad’s Art of Excess
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LOOK CLOSER: Understanding Pacita Abad's European Mask
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