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ARTIST BIO
Jao San Pedro (b. 1998, Philippines) is a visual artist exploring the generative potentials of loss and error. Her process-based practice filters data and material through transcategorial frameworks, rendering trace and surface, sound and gesture, doubles and simulacra.
She has presented solo exhibitions at Tarzeer Pictures in Manila, including Prose Without Body (2025), a commissioned exhibition currently on view, and Willing the Sun to Rise Twice (2023). Her work has appeared in group exhibitions such as Customised Postures, (De)colonising Gestures (2024), curated by Dr. Alexander Supartono at Gajah Gallery in Singapore and Jakarta; Swallow & Spit Part I and II (2024), curated by Denise Lai at A+ Works of Art in Kuala Lumpur; Between Grief and Hope, an Archipelago (2023-4), curated by Emerging Islands at the Columbia Institute of Ideas & Imagination in Paris and Mono8 Gallery in Manila; Alien Body, Human Dreams (2023), curated by April Lin and presented by the Queer East Film Festival’s Image Programme at the Barbican Centre in London; and Synthetic Condition (2022) curated by Carlos Quijon Jr. at the UP Vargas Museum in Manila.
She received the Prince Claus Seed Award in 2022 and the ArtFairPH/Residencies grant from Art Fair Philippines in 2021. She has spoken at The Future of Institutions and Museums, organized by Youth Atlas at Museo Pambata, and Other as Mirror, Mirror as Portal, organized by The Metrobank Foundation at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. She is the founder and programme director of wrong.institute, a process-building framework that makes space for bending creative practices.
Programme Director, wrong.institute
Co-Director, develo.ph
Operations Director, Carl Jan Cruz
Creative Director, IHULMA
Represented by A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur
Prose Without Body
SOLO EXHIBITION
Tarzeer Pictures, Makati City, PH
19 June to 19 August 2025
Curation and Dramaturgy by David Loughran
In collaboration with (Movement Artists) Corinne Serrano, Petra Gana, Shayna Cua, Vida Alegre, (Writers) Jaya Jacobo, Ryan Reyes, (Sound Designer) Aly Cabral, (Sound Engineer) Patrick Casabuena, (Technical Support) Jeric Rustia, and Ram de Guzman.
Posthuman Objects
GROUP EXHIBITION
De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde
01 September 2025
In collaboration with Roomi
Programme Fund - Benilde Open Grant
Collective Lensing
CURRICULUM
Tarzeer Pictures, Makati City, PH
01 September 2025
In collaboration with Gio Panlilio and Enzo Razon
wrong.orchestra_01
PROGRAMME
UP Vargas Museum, Quezon City, PH
01 September 2025
In collaboration with Et Alt
Programme Fund - Goethe Institut