Con Cabrera

Con Cabrera is a visual artist and independent curator. She is a faculty member from the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman and has attended the curatorial fellowships Vargas Museum and Japan Foundation Third Curatorial Development Program in 2014, Independent Curators International’s Curatorial Intensive Manila in 2016, and San Art’s Uncommon Pursuits held in Ho Chi Minh City in 2018. She participated in Rikuzentakata Artist in Residence Program in Iwate and Paradise AIR in Tokyo, both in Japan in 2017 and returned in 2019 to co-curate RT AIR's Kesen Art and Life Festival. She started joining group exhibitions in 2006 and had her first solo show in 2011. She was part of Manila Biennale’s Open City exhibition curatorial team in 2018 and co-curated Imelda Cajipe Endaya's retrospective at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2022. She was the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division's guest curator in 2023 and her concluding project was the intensive workshop Upskilling on Performance and Visual Arts Curation. She was the editor of Upskilling Handbook: Workshop Proceedings and Guide to Developing Modes of Care in Curatorship. She was one of 2024 recipients of CIMAM Travel Grant Award and has attended the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art's annual conference held in Los Angeles. She grounds her conceptualization and production to writings on art, culture, and history. Her works have been shown in the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, US, and Taiwan.