Carlos Quijon, Jr.

Carlos Quijon, Jr. is an art historian, critic, and curator based between Manila and New York. He is the C-MAP Fellow for Southeast and East Asia at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He was a fellow of the research platform Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (MAHASSA), convened by the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories project. He has written exhibition reviews for publications such as e-flux, Frieze, Artforum, among others. His essays are part of the books Writing Presently (Manila: Philippine Contemporary Art Network, 2019), From a History of Exhibitions Towards a Future of Exhibition-Making: China and Southeast Asia (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019), and SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia (Berlin: Weiss Publications, 2022). He is an alumnus of the Ateneo National Writers Workshop in Manila and the inaugural Para Site Workshops for Emerging Professionals in Hong Kong in 2015 and was a scholar participant of the symposium “How Institutions Think” hosted by LUMA Foundation in Arles in 2016. In 2017, he was a research resident in MMCA Seoul and a fellow of the Transcuratorial Academy both in Berlin and Mumbai. He curated Courses of Action in Hong Kong in 2019 and co-curated the traveling exhibition series Afro-Southeast Asia: Pragmatics and Geopoetics of Art during a Cold War in Singapore (2021), Manila (2021-2), and Busan (2022). He is the curator of the exhibition series Archipelagic Futurisms, editions of which has been presented in Manila, New York, Kuala Lumpur, and Hong Kong. He is the curator of the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.