NEW YORK, NY.- Silverlens announced its representation of artists Stephanie Syjuco, Poklong Anading, and Taloi Havini. Dedicated to representing Southeast Asian Diaspora artists, Silverlens continues to increase global awareness and access to the narratives and histories of these artists and this region. In 2024, Syjuco will present a solo exhibition at Silverlens Manila, while Havini will hold her first-ever exhibition with Silverlens in its New York location. Anading will hold an Online Viewing Room presentation with the gallery later this year.
“We are incredibly honored and excited to be working with Stephanie and Poklong whom we have known for many years. Taloi was introduced to us by Martha Atienza, and it was an immediate understanding on both her part and ours that we just needed to join forces.
All three artists are deeply rooted in making art that shines light on their respective cultures. There is a deep narrative in all their contemporary practices that we are so honored to be able to share through the gallery’s efforts,” said Silverlens co-owners Isa Lorenzo and Rachel Rillo.
Stephanie Syjuco (b. 1974, Manila, Philippines. Lives and works in Oakland) works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital, in order to investigate issues of economies and empire. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a 2020 Tiffany Foundation Award, and a 2009 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award. Syjuco currently has a solo survey show, Blind Spot, at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, and is included in Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, at the National Gallery Singapore. She will be included in upcoming exhibitions at The Guggenheim Museum, The Getty Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The de Young Museum in San Francisco, The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, and the MCA Denver. She will present a solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle in 2024.
Stephanie Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Walker Art Center, The 12th Havana Biennial, and The 2015 Asian Art Biennial (Taiwan), among others. A long-time educator, she is an Associate Professor in Sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley. Silverlens will co-represent Syjuco alongside Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco) and RYAN LEE Gallery (New York).
Poklong Anading (b. 1975, Manila, Philippines. Lives and works in Manila) works with a wide range of mediums and is acclaimed for his pieces that investigate photography and travel. Fascinated with the process of creation and permutation, Anading explores different mediums to engage with a range of sociopolitical and environmental questions. He is not driven by an overt agenda, but prefers to let his mind wander—thinking with and through his materials as they undergo their transformations. He frequently uses found objects and discarded materials that lead him to investigate notions of worth and value, and to explore what it means for art to exist inside and beyond capitalist production.
Poklong Anading graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1999 and has been recognized for his work both nationally and internationally. Anading has participated in major Asian Biennials and international exhibitions and has been invited by notable curators such as Mami Kataoka, Alia Swastika, Eugene Tan, and June Yap. His work Counter Acts I was collected and exhibited by the Guggenheim Foundation New York and included in the exhibition No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia in the Center for Contemporary Art in Singapore. Anading has also received numerous awards, including the 12th Gawad CCP for Experimental Video in 2000 and the Thirteen Artists Awards in 2006. His works can be found in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Singapore Art Museum, the Mori Art Museum, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Taloi Havini (b. 1981, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Lives and works in Brisbane) employs a research practice informed by her matrilineal ties to her land and communities in Bougainville. This manifests in works created using a range of media including photography, audio-video, sculpture, immersive installation, and print. Havini curates and collaborates across multi-art platforms using archives, working with communities and developing commissions locally and internationally. Knowledge-production, transmission, inheritance, mapping, and representation are central themes in Havini’s work where she examines these in relation to land, architecture, and place.
Taloi Havini holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has exhibited with Artspace, Sydney, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE, 3rd Aichi Triennial, Nagoya, 8th & 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Queensland Art Gallery | GoMA, Brisbane, and was recently commissioned by TBA21–Academy with Schmidt Ocean Institute at Ocean Space, Campo S. Lorenzo, Venezia for her solo at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2021. Havini’s artwork is held in public and private collections including TBA21–Academy, Sharjah Art Foundation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, National Gallery of Victoria, KADIST, San Francisco, CA, USA.
