PJ Gubatina Policarpio is a curator, educator, and community organizer with over 10 years of experience in arts and culture, leading innovative and rigorous initiatives that engage artists and diverse communities. He has organized exhibitions and programming in San Francisco, New York, and internationally, including to see what isn’t hard to see (Headlands Center for the Arts, 20225), Magical Realism (San Francisco Art Fair, 2025), Ceremonies: Rituals to Self (San Francisco Arts Commission, 2025), Cian Dayrit: Liberties Were Taken (Root Division, 2025), Notes for Tomorrow (Independent Curators International, 2021-2025), Letter from the Network (Berkeley Art Center, 2024), Under the Same Sun (Edge on the Square, 2023), Notes on Cultural Evidence (slash art, 2023), Conversations on Carlos Villa: World-Making and Cross-Cultural Solidarity (Asian Art Museum, 2022), Tarsal by Metatarsal (Headlands Center for the Arts, 2021), Solidarity Struggle Victory (Southern Exposure, 2019), and Rally: Queer Art and Activism Now (Dixon Place, 2017). Policarpio is co-founder of Pilipinx American Library, an itinerant library and programming platform dedicated to diasporic Filipinx perspectives. His publications are in the collection of the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Born in the Philippines, Policarpio immigrated to the United States in his early teens. He lives and works in San Francisco and New York City.
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