Tessa Maria Guazon

Tessa Maria Guazon’s curatorial practice and research interests focus on contemporary art in Southeast Asia. Her more recent research and curatorial projects include the Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network (SEANNET, organized by SUSS Singapore and IIAS Leiden funded by The Luce Foundation), where she is the principal researcher for Manila. She is co-curator of the traveling exhibition Notes for Tomorrow, organized by the ICI International (Independent Curators International), New York, and the 2021 Asian Art Biennial in Taichung, Taiwan, and curator of the Philippine Pavilion at the 58th Venice Art Biennale. She has done fieldwork and research in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. She was a researcher at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan in 2017 and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul in 2023. Her essays have been published in academic journals, exhibition catalogs, and anthologies in the Philippines and overseas. She is the head curator of the UP Vargas Museum and an associate professor in the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman.