Lexygius Sanchez Calip’s work and practice query the weight of gestures. He exercises a viable autonomous approach in confrontation of its common traditions. Through intuitive, dialogical, conceptual, and sensorially driven works in the field(s) of: site-specific installations and interventions, sound, performance, and new media applications, among others, the trivial quality of his process, which he regards as dialogues, highlight the context of the temporal, the spatial, and the natural—overlooked qualities of spaces and places that are familiar to us. The extant of metaphors and allegorical semiotics in his works, often frivolous in nature, convey and underscore the incorporeal and the improbable aspects of existence—the circumstantial experiences that we all share and endure.
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PhD in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art Theory. Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. U.S.A. (Ongoing)
Master of Arts in History and Theory of Contemporary Art. San Francisco Art Institute. U.S.A. 2021
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts. San Francisco Art Institute. U.S.A. 2020
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 EITHER WAY, IT HURTS, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, U.S.A.
2016 EX, The Prentice and Paul Sack Gallery, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2013 MEMORIES ARE SACRED, The Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
2009 PRESENCE, Avellana Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2005 OF HANG-UPS AND HANG-OVERS, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, VT, U.S.A.
2004 SOUL SHOWER, Avellana Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines
SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2024 IN FLUX: Recalibrating the Unknown, Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
2023 SOLILOQUIO, Tempio di Pomona, Salerno, Italy
2022 LONDON CONTEMPORARY, THE LINE Contemporary Art Space, London, England
2021 SPIRIT OF DISRUPTION, The Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2020 HOW NOT TO BE HELD DOWN BY AIR, Schafer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2019 THE MURPHY CADOGAN AWARDS EXHIBITION, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2018 THE PAST DIDN’T GO ANYWHERE, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA, U.S.A.
2017 HUMAN CONDITION: Personal Explorations Through Abstraction, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2016 FORTRESS, UAMO/FESTIVAL, Munich, Germany
2015 REVERBERATE, Bliss on Bliss Art Projects, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2014 ICAE (International Contemporary Artists Exhibition), EWNS Art Project, Paris, France
2013 SHADEQUARTER INITIATIVE FOR THE ARTS, Provost and Prichard, Visalia, CA, U.S.A.
2012 THE T.U.P. SHOW, Gallerie Anna, Manila, Philippines
2011 THE GUERILLA SHOW, ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2010 IMPLODE, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
2005 THE WAHANA PROJECT, Jorge P. Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines
2004 CRITICAL CONDITIONS, Ateneo Museum of Modern Art, Manila, Philippines
2003 ASEAN ART AWARDS, The Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philippines
2001 ART ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES, GSIS Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines
SELECTED MERITS AND RECOGNITIONS
2022 GRADUATE FELLOW AWARD, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, U.S.A.
2021 AWARD RECIPIENT, Excellence in Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, U.S.A.
2020 AWARD RECIPIENT, Anne Bremer Memorial Award, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, U.S.A.
2019 AWARD RECIPIENT, The Murphy Cadogan Art Awards, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2018 AWARD RECIPIENT, Trustee Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, U.S.A.
2017 GRAND PRIZE AWARDEE, Clyde & Co Art Awards 2017, San Francisco CA, U.S.A.
2016 AWARD RECIPIENT, Presidential Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, U.S.A.
2005 FREEMAN FOUNDATION FELLOW, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, U.S.A.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
IN CONVERSATION, Insights of an Eco Artist Magazine, 2022
https://www.insightsofayoungecologicalartist.com/artfeatures/in-conversation%3A-lexygius-sanchez-calip
ITSLIQUID CONSCIOUSNESS and VISIONS, 2022
https://www.itsliquid.com/interview-lexygius-sanchez-calip.html
WE ARE JOSEPH BUEYS, 2022
https://www.arte.go.it/event/we-are-joseph-beuys-mostra-collettiva/
