Jason Montinola

ARTIST STATEMENT

“I paint what I see in visions.  Not all of it, but whatever equivalent we have within our level of experience” says Jason Montinola whose oeuvre is built around love, death, sin, and salvation.  For him, painting is not just a creative expression, but a means of opening up consciousness, sharing hidden realities, and revealing surprising connections; without the use of cumbersome and confining words, to aid us in elevating our humanity.  Art has always served a spiritual purpose.  From the first cave paintings, to the adornment of places of worship, art has aided us in imagining the spiritual, and to help us live lives in congruence with the greater order.  Montinola’s paintings appear to be from this vein as well.

An excerpt from Ricky Francisco’s curatorial statement

BIOGRAPHY

born in 1979, Manila, Philippines

2003

Technological University of the Philippines, BSIE Art Education

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

Through the Depths of Space, Pinto Art Gallery, Philippines

Through the Depths of Space, Bencab Museum, Philippines

2018

The fall of the old god, Provenance Art Gallery, Philippines

2016

In the Absence of Struggles, Art Informal, Philippines

2015

Absent, West Gallery, Philippines

2014

The Sensational Painter, (Toy Launch), Secret Fresh Gallery, Philippines

2013  

Infamous, Artesan Gallery + Studio, Singapore

Theatre of Absurdities, OUR Art Projects, MIA Art Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2012

Sinister, West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines

2011

Here Lies the Painter, West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines

2010

Black Carnival, Big & Small Art Gallery, Philippines

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

Troubled Turf 3, Secret Fresh, Philippines

Inevitably imperfect, Vinyl on Vinyl, Philippines

2019

Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, Underground Gallery, Philippines

Judas left the conversation underground gallery, Philippines

Looking at your brains by means of a mirror, Artery art space, Philippines

2018

Obscene presence of absence, OUR Art Projects, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The way of the flesh, G13 Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Fear in painting, Underground, Philippines

Two sides to every story, Provenance Art Gallery, Philippines

RE:VIEW 2018, Bencab Museum, Philippines

2017

Merry Christmas, (I don’t want to fight tonight), Underground Gallery, Philippines

 Infamy, Pinto Art Museum, Philippines

 X, Gallery Orange, Bacolod City, Philippines

 Equidistant Night, Provenance Art Gallery, Philippines

RE:VIEW 2017, Bencab Museum, Philippines

Let the right one in, Let the wrong ones go, Underground Gallery, Philippines

2016

Art Taipei 2016, Gallery Kogure, Taipei, Taiwan

Drawings + Sketches, (with Kaloy Sanchez) West Gallery, Philippines

Mild Encounter, Kapitana Gallery, Bacolod City, Philippines

Mild Encounter, Boston Gallery, Philippines

2664 km – 5 Filipino Contemporary Artist, YOD Gallery, Osaka, Japan

RE:VIEW 2016, Bencab Museum, Philippines

2015

Bangkal Paintings, Underground Gallery, Philippines

Jogja Art Moments, Jogja National Museum, Jogjakarta Indonesia

Suspension of Disbelief, Underground Gallery, Philippines

RE:VIEW 2015, Bencab Museum, Philippines

Art Stage Singapore 2015, Art Informal, Singapore

Bazaar Art Jakarta 2015, Jakarta, Indonesia

Art Taipei 2015, YOD Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2014

RE:VIEW 2014, Bencab Museum, Philippines

Relative Realities, Yuchengco Museum, Philippines

2013

RE:VIEW 2013, Bencab Museum, Baguio, Philippines

Masterpieces, Ayala Museum, Philippines

2012

RE:VIEW 2012, Bencab Museum, Philippines

Anomalies, Copro Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA

Painting the Sublime, Manila Contemporary, Philippines

Taetrum et Dulce; Lux in Tenebris, Distinction Gallery, Escondido, California, USA

Taboo, Last Rites Gallery, new York City, USA

Secret Rooms and Hidden Motives, ( with Kaloy Sanchez) Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

HeadLights 2012, Valentine Willie Fine Art, KL Malaysia

2011     Enigmatic Fantasies, Altro Mondo, Makati, Philippines

Boycotter of Beauty and the Theoretical Steroid Defiled Modernist Chicken, West Gallery, Philippines