Augustine Paredes Philippines, b. 1994

Augustine Paredes (b. 1994, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines) is a multidisciplinary Filipino artist working across photography, painting, installation and poetry. His expanded photographic practice revolves around questioning the post-colonial identity of a Filipino in the diaspora through the appropriation of different artistic mediums, traditional materials, and historical and personal narratives. Through photography, textile, found materials and text, his work reflects on memory, migration, religion and cultural inheritance, often combining personal experience with historical references.

Paredes studied Fine Arts under Prof. Haegue Yang at Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt (2025), and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication from Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines. Working between the Philippines, the UAE and Europe, he has developed a practice that moves between image-making, installation and writing, frequently incorporating traditional materials, craft techniques and archival elements to explore diasporic identity.

Solo exhibitions include Grace, Paulina Caspari Gallery, Munich (2025); Amalgamation of Tenderness, Liste Art Fair, Basel (2024); Artist’s Room: Augustine Paredes, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2024); Yearning the Sun to Fall, fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main (2023); Light Leaks, Foundry, Dubai (2023); Paradise4ever, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai (2022); How Strangers Meet, Today x Future, Quezon City (2016); and We Are Water, Abreeza, Davao City (2015).

Selected group exhibitions include Gateway, Abu Dhabi Art, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi (2025); Vordemberge-Gildewart Scholarship 4.0, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany (2025); New Beginnings: Philippine Photography, Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt (2025); Traces, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo (2025); House Tension, Alte Schmelze, Frankfurt (2025); Paperscapes, Hong Kong Baptist University (2025); RAY Triennale, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt (2024); Delfina Foundation, London (2023); Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai (2023); Tarzeer Pictures, Manila (2023); Gravity Art Space, Manila (2023); Royal Commission of AlUla (2022); Goethe-Institut (2021); Middle East Institute, Washington DC (2021); Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi (2021, 2020); Sotheby’s DIFC, Dubai (2021); and Art Dubai (2019).

Commissions include projects for Sharjah Biennale (2025),  Alserkal Arts Foundation (2021–2022), Art Dubai, Diriyah Biennale, Jameel Arts Centre, Warehouse 421, Goethe-Institut and the Royal Commission of AlUla. He has participated in residencies and fellowships including MMCA Korea Goyang Residency, AlUla Artist Residency, Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, Campus Art Dubai, and the International Summer School of Photography, Latvia.

As a writer, he has published several books of art and poetry, including Conversations at the End of the Universe (2020), Long Night Stands With Lonely, Lonely Boys (2021), Happy to be here to be happy (2022), The Bitter Taste of Sweetness (2022), and Slow Disco (2024). He is co-founder of Sa Tahanan Collective with curator Anna Bernice delos Reyes.

Augustine Paredes is based between Dubai and Frankfurt.