Jill Paz utilizes drawing, photography, painting, and ceramics, in a diverse practice that may appear analytical, yet intimately presents a personal life. Born in Makati Philippines, she studied art in North America at the Columbus College of Art and Design, the University of British Columbia and Parsons School of Design. In 2015, she received her MFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. Now based in Manila, her studio practice is informed by her relationship to her homeland as a Balikbayan, which translates to ‘person who returns home’ in the Tagalog language.
Recently, Paz was the recipient of a fellowship residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (2023). She has been the recipient of the Philippines Artist Residency Program, resulting in a residency and exhibition at Centre Intermondes in La Rochelle, France (2019), and was the recipient of the Greater Columbus Art Council, which resulted as a residency and exhibition in Dresden Germany (2016). She has participated in thematic residencies at Ox-Bow School of Art, Michigan USA (2022), the Banff Centre, Alberta Canada (2015), and Mildred’s Lane, New York USA (2014).
Solo exhibitions of Paz’s work have been presented at MoSpace, Philippines (2023) Silverlens Gallery, Philippines ‘Domestic Abstractions’ (2021) the Discoveries Sector at Art Basel Hong Kong “The Grove of Trees’ (2019), and 1335MABINI, Philippines ‘History of the Present’ (2018). Her work has been included in numerous international exhibitions including group shows at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore (2021), Asia Now, Paris (2019), Vienna Contemporary, Vienna,(2019), Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava (2019), Alte Feuerwache Lochwitz, Dresden (2016), Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (2016), The Beeler Gallery at the Canzani Center, Columbus (2016), and The Project Space, Banff Centre Canada (2015).
Photo by Sonny Thakur, 2018, for GRID Magazine, ‘30 Minutes with Jill Paz’.
JILL PAZ
Born in Makati, 1982
Lives in Manila Philippines
Education
2015 MFA Visual Arts, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH/USA
2005 Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC/CA
2004 BFA magna cum laude, Visual Art, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH/USA
2003 AICAD: New York Studio Residency Program, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY/USA
Selected Exhibitions
2024 S.E.A. Focus, Singapore
2023 Women Meeting at the Sacred Grove, Art Informal, Makati PH
2023 Tropical Futures, Art Toronto, Myta Sayo Gallery, Toronto CA
2023 Echo of a Site, MoSpace, Makati PH (solo)
2023 Yavuz Gallery for Art Fair Philippines, Makati PH
2022 Object & Art, A-11, Manila PH
2022 Future/Present, Mono8, Manila PH
2022 Hitherto V, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban PH
2021 After the Storm, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore (curated by Tony Godfrey)
2021 Domestic Abstractions, Viewing Room, Silverlens, Makati PH (solo)
2020 Travelogue, Alliance Française Manille, Makati PH (solo)
2019 Asia Now, La Patinoire - Galerie Valerie Bach booth, Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, FR
2019 Paysages, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle, FR (two-person exhibition)
2019 After Hidalgo, Unttld Contemporary, Vienna Contemporary, Vienna AT
2019 Far Away but Strangely Familiar, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislavia SK
2019 The Grove of Trees, 1335MABINI, Discoveries Sector, Art Basel Hong Kong, HK (solo)
2019 Fragile Anomalies, Julius Bar Lounge, Art Fair Philippines, Makati PH (solo)
2018 The History of the Present, 1335MABINI, Makati PH (solo)
2017 Homage, Archivo 1984, Makati PH (solo)
2016 Dresden Residents, Alte Feuerwache Lochwitz, Dresden DE
2016 Greater Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH/USA
2016 Paintings, The Beeler Gallery at the Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH/USA
2015 Blueprint for Happiness, Project Space, Banff Centre, Banff, AB/CA
2015 Tell it with a Slant, MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Beeler Gallery at the Canzani Center, Columbus, OH/USA
2015 ImageOhio, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH/USA
2015 Greater Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH/USA
2015 Blueprint for Happiness, Project Space, Banff Centre, Banff, AB/CA
2015 ImageOhio, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH/USA
2014 Cardboard Pantings, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH/USA (two-person exhibition)
Fellowships/Awards/Residencies
2023 Fellowship and Artist Residency, Virginia Center for Creative Arts VA/USA
2022 Conversations in Practice, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, virtual online residency PH/USA
2019 Philippine Artist Residency Program, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle, FR
2016 Artist Residency, Kunsthaus Raskolnikow and Geh8, Dresden DE
2016 Fellowship, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH/USA
2015 Fellowship, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB/CA
2014 Artist Residency, Mildred’s Lane Art Complexity, Narrowsburg, NY/USA