Cristina Rago is a Filipino American multidisciplinary artist born in New York in 1993. Their artistic practice explores healing and repairing fragmented layers of memory and identity from a queer perspective. Their visual imagery evokes a feeling of nostalgia and dissociation between the past and present self, and their textile pieces often utilise domestic materials including discarded clothes, cheesecloth, and doilies that are reworked through processes such as dyeing, destruction and mending. Throughout their work and process, they incorporate writing and sound in a diaristic approach. They work out of their studio in Wandsworth, London and will be hosting workshops soon to create community while engaging in the healing and meditative practices of stitch.
Biography
1993 in New York, USA
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, The City Literary Institute, London, UK, 2022
BA in Studio Art, Minor in Asian Studies, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA, 2015
Group Exhibitions
2024
Group exhibition, Steamworks Gallery, London, UK
2022
Selects: Volume 2, Piccadilly Circus, London, UK
2022
The John Lyons Theatre, Film screening, London, UK
2022
Downstairs at the Department Store, There Yet, London, UK
2022
London Paint Club, New Members Online Exhibition, Virtual
2021
The Bricklane Gallery, Contemporary Painting, London, UK
Create Magazine, Inner Power, Virtual
MADS Milano Gallery, Love My Body, Milan, Italy, Virtual
Asian Pasifika Art Collective, New Beginnings, Virtual
London Paint Club, Fresh Perspectives, Virtual
Asian Pasifika Art Collective, APA Heritage Month, Virtual
2019
RAW Artists, Reflect, Washington, DC
2015
Salve Regina Gallery, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Washington, DC
Selected Press
The Space Between – London Paint Club. London Paint Club. (2022). Print Magazine.
The Space Between – London Paint Club. London Paint Club. (2022). https://londonpaintclub.com/2022/05/05/the-space-between/.
Selects: Vol. 2 – London Paint Club. (2022) https://londonpaintclub.com/2022/11/18/selects-vol-2/.
Best of 2021 – London Paint Club. London Paint Club. (2022). Retrieved 2 April 2022, from https://londonpaintclub.com/2021/12/21/best-of-2021/.
Yoo-Sun McLeun, Bree. “Body of Work.” Medium, May 29, 2021.
https://breemcluenwriteslefthanded.medium.com/body-of-work-629309c68d9c.
Gerr, Melissa. “Empathy Through Art: Asian American Pride.” Episode. On the Record. Baltimore, MD: WYPR, May 19, 2021. https://www.wypr.org/show/on-the-record/2021-05-19/empathy-through-art-asian-american-pride.
Lauren Cohen with Christine Jackson and Jane Marion | March 18, 2021. “How to Support the Asian-American Community in Baltimore.” Baltimore Magazine, March 22, 2021. http://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/community/how-to-support-the-asian-american-community-in-baltimore.
Catholic University. “Senior Art Projects on Display.” The Catholic University of America, May 6, 2015. https://communications.catholic.edu/news/2015/05/senior-art.html.
Catholic University. “2015 Senior Thesis Exhibition.” The Catholic University of America, April 23, 2015. https://arts.catholic.edu/performances-and-events/archive/art/2014-2015/senior-thesis-exhibit-15/index.html.