Johanna Poethig is a visual, public and performance artist who has exhibited internationally and has been actively creating public art works, murals, paintings, sculpture and multimedia installations for over 40 years. Her practice plays between realism and abstract forms, architectural and intimate scales, historic and present day politics, futurist musings, humour and satire, a feminist point of view, collaborative processes and cultural critique. In her current work, in the midst of climate crisis, the mathematical patterns in nature’s terrestrial and extraterrestrial life systems are expressed by creating experiential landscapes, surrealistic portraits and texts that come together in a speculative storytelling.
Poethig’s public art works intervene in the urban landscape, on freeways, transit corridors, in parks, hospitals, schools, homeless shelters, cultural centers and civic buildings. She has worked in collaboration with other artists, architects, urban planners, design teams, arts commissions, specific communities and cultural groups. She has received numerous commissions and awards for this work ; in 2021 the California Arts Council Individual Artist Legacy Award. She has curated, produced and participated in performance events that mix feminism, global politics, costume, cabaret, experimental music and video.
Poethig is Professor Emerita of the Visual and Public Art (VPA) department at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). As an arts educator and socially engaged artist she deconstructs boundaries in a collaborative artistic process grounded in research, production, critique, improvisation and reciprocal learning. She was raised in the Philippines and has lived in Chicago, San Francisco and Oakland since coming to the United States. She received her BFA at University of California, Santa Cruz and her MFA at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her interest in the dialogue between the public and personal, politics and aesthetics, the mathematical and the mystical, the ridiculous and the sublime and an inclusive cultural life inform her process and inspire her work.
For inquiries about exhibitions, projects, purchases or lectures contact: johanna@johannapoethig.com
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Johanna Poethig
Visual, Public and Performance artist
BIOGRAPHY:
1956 Born in New Jersey, USA and raised in Manila, Philippines
1980 BFA University of California at Santa Cruz
1992 MFA Mills College, Oakland, California, USA
EXHIBITIONS:
2023 de Young Museum Open, San Francisco
2023 Extraterratropozone, Roll Up Project Exhibition, Oakland
2023 Excursions, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
2023 The Great Wall of Los Angeles, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) , Artist Design Team
2023 Kaleidoscope, ARC Gallery, San Francisco
2023 Ungkat-Shell Games, solo show, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
2022 Gardeners of Belonging, Yerba Buena Cultural Center (YBCA), San Francisco
2022 David Ireland House, performance/installation with composer Chris Brown, San Francisco
2022 Arts Benicia, 35 x 35 Anniversary Exhibit, Benicia CA
2022 Hideouts, Escape Hatches and a Submarine, solo show, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland
2022 10 Year Anniversary, Love Show, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland
2021 4 x 8 Bridges Art Fair, Bay Area Galleries
2020 National Coalition Against Censorship Auction, National online exhibit
2020 Re-Vision, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland
2020 Gatherings Project, Patricia Rovsar Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2020 Care Package, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland,
2019 Impossible Matter, Solo show, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland
2019 Uranus, Performance for The Hole, SOMArts, San Francisco
2019 Building the Building, High Stakes Cards Installation, SOMArts, San Francisco
2018 High Stakes Divination Cards Performance, Atelier Siegele, Darmstadt, Germany
2018 Remythologizing Filipino Archetypes: 50 Shades of Kayumanggi, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University of California
2018 When She Rises, Print Collection, SPARC Gallery, Los Angeles
2018 Phyllotaxis and Parastichy in a Time of Love and War, Solo, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland
2018 Way Bay, Postcards, Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, California
2018 KALA Gala Auction, Berkeley, CA
2018 Call and Response with Dionicio Mendoza, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey CA
2017 Free Trade, Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco
2017 Positional Vertigo, Solo show, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland
2016 Songs for Women Living With War, Installation and performances, Pro Arts, Oakland
2016 Passport 2016, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
2016 Password Protected paintings, Richmond Art Center 80th Anniversary Exhibition, CA
2016 Music of the Lost Cites, Video installation at Krowswork Gallery, Oakland
2016 Oakland VS San Francisco performance, Fort Mason Chapel with La Pocha Nostra
2016 Glamorgeddon Limo Lectures, Curated and performed, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland
2016 Left Coast, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
2015 Music of the Lost Cities , Video/Sound with Chris Brown, Spectrum NYC, East Bay Media
2015 Glamorgeddon, Curatorial residency, exhibited and performed, SOMArts Gallery, SF
2014 Music of the Lost Cities , Video/Sound with Chris Brown, Manila Transi(en)t, Philippines
2014 Soapbox, performance, Berkeley Art Center
2014 Where To From There? Pro Arts Juried Annual, Oakland
2013 RISK exhibit, Berkeley Art Center
2013 MLYLT painting/sculpture, Boston Center for the Arts, Mass
2012 Karvasla, Artisterium, Tiblisi, Repbulic of Georgia
2012 Asterick Gallery, Art and Design exhibit, San Francisco, CA
2012 MLYLT painting/sculpture, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
2011 Lost Cities, video/sound with Chris Brown, Luggage Store Projection Space, SF
2011 SpaceBi: Placesetting San Francisco Asian Art Museum project by Imin Yeh,
2011 In the Moment Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Paper to Place Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, CA
2011 Private=Public Skyline College Gallery, San Bruno, CA
2011 Fresh Work KALA Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2011 Shadowshop project by Stephanie Syjuco, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2010 WIGband Stimulus Spa video, Berkeley Film and Video Festival, CA
2010 Placesetting solo show, Manilatown Art Center, San Francisco, CA
2010 Mad World: Messages to the Future Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
2010 Villa Montalvo, Lost Cities paintings, Saratoga, CA
2010 Infix:The Grammar of Insertion, installation, Barrionics, SFMOMA’s Artist Gallery
2010 Lost Cities performance, HONF Media Center, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
2010 Music of the Lost Cities video/sound The Living Room, Manila, Philippines
2009 Colonization of the Dreamworld solo show, Togonon Gallery, SF
2009 Lost Cities Solo Show, Crossing Tracks Gallery, San Diego
2009 Rogue Wave video/performance with Chris Brown and Guillermo Galindo, YBCA, CA
2009 Strange Hope Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
2008 Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 Behind Closed Dollars Manilatown Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Subversive Complicity The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2007 From Hedonopolis Thatcher Gallery, USF, San Francisco
2007 Driven solo show, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 OverMapped Remy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Galleon Trade Mag:net Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2006 Subject to Revision Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Forecast: Art for Public Art exhibit, Minneapolis, MN
2004 Barbaric video, Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Netherlands
2003 Barrionics does Barrioque Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Marking Time installation w/ Chris Brown, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2002 Barrionics Reynolds Gallery, U of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
2002 The Post-Glamour Summit performance New Langton Arts, SF, CA
2001 Pacific Studios Gallery Brooklyn, New York
2000 Made in California Los Angeles Museum of Art, CA
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2023 Here Lies Love, David Byrne at The Broadway Theater, Lakas Sambayanan/ People Power mural in set design, New York City, ongoing
2023 Old Growth /New Growth, Chinook School, Washington State Arts, current
2023 Great Wall of Los Angeles, Artist Team, Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)
2022 San Jose Fire Department Training Center and Office of Emergency Management, Current
2021 Humming With Life, 12’x 200’ mural restoration project on La Cocina Municipal
Marketplace, the first women led food hall in the USA. Hyde and Golden Gate, San Francisco.
2020 AC Transit Bus Rapid Transit Corridor, 9 mile poem and neighborhood iconography in laser cut and painted metal railings and windscreen hex panel artworks for 34 stations, Oakland to San Leandro. Lead Artist with Mildred Howard, Joyce Hsu, Peter Richards
2020 Oak Knoll Retail Village Plaza, Oakland – current design phase
2019 Rainbow Power, Rainbow Recreation Center, Oakland – 10’ x 65’ glass mosaic
2019 Skylight: Transmission of Knowledge/Windows to Justice, entrance mural of the new College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Building, CSU, Monterey Bay. 9’x 45’
2017 Sunset/Axis/Horizon 4’ x 12’ acrylic on wood installation, Google Offices, One Market Plaza, San Francisco
2015 Bernal Library, “Story Cloud”, 15’ x 50’ glass mosaic and tile, San Francisco
2015 CSU, Monterey Bay Vision Mural, 20’ x 300’, acrylic, with Visual and Public Art Dept
2014 Pajaro Park Mural, 300 foot mural for primarily farmworker community in Pajaro, CA
2013 Hamilton Recreation Center, Celebrate Ability 6 (42”) Mosaic medallions, San Francisco,
2012 Streetwise Tire Totems, Artisterium , Tbilisi, Georgia. Sponsored by US Embassy
2012 Starbird Youth Center 10’ x 20’ x 30’ steel, San Jose, CA
2011 Humming with Life 13’ x 200’ mural, San Francisco Civic Center Post Office
2010 Mission and Vision Tapestry glass mosaic pillars, Skyline College, San Bruno
2010 I-Hotel Mural International Hotel, Kearny at Jackson, San Francisco, CA
2009 Intertwined 1,000 sq ft. ceramic tile installation, Glide Housing, San Francisco, CA
2007 Beacon w/ Brian Laczko concrete, metal, glass, tile public sculpture, Stockton, CA
2006 Loop Tattoo 135′x 45′ mural, Chicago, IL
2006 Flight of the Mind 57’ x 20’ interior mixed media installation, Clark College, WA
2006 Roots and Veins w/ Julio Morales, permanent public installations, SF Juvenile Hall, CA
2005 Youth Uprising Center w/Mildred Howard, permanent public installations, Oakland, CA
2004 Community Key 4’ x 200’ ceramic tile, fiberglass and metal installation, Milwaukee, WI
2004 Play Ball tile and glass mosaic sculpture, Rochambeau Park, San Francisco, CA
2003 Birdwatch 6’ x 200’ tile installation, Ted Fairfield Park, Dublin, CA
2003 Woven Wall w/ Brian Laczko, Caltrans Soundwall design, Stockton, CA
2002 Sign of Spirit /Symbol of Survival 10’ x 16’ interior mural , St. Lawrence University, NY
2001 Dragonfly ceramic tile installation, Tutubi Park, San Francisco
2000 Cesar Chavez Memorial/ Tiene la Lumbre Por Dentro, 8’ x 24’ wood relief, Sonoma State University Library , CA
1999 Shapes of Life 5’ x 30’ interior ceramic tile installation, San Francisco General Hospital,
1998 Oiga mi Llamada 16’ x 80’ mural, Taller Cultural, Santiago, Cuba
1996 The Guardians 35’ x 100’ mural, Tenderloin National Forest, San Francisco, CA
1996 Underdog Ad Agency Night view posters, Market Street Art In Transit, San Francisco,
1995 Open Arms interior 13’ x 50’ tile, granite/marble wall, San Jose Children’s Shelter, CA
1995 Gabrielino Nation 20’ x 130’ mural, San Pedro, CA
1995 Tenderloin Children’s Playground ceramic tile floor and pillars, San Francisco, CA
1994 Stamps of Victory 20’ x 200’ mural I-10 Freeway, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Calle de la Eternidad 62’ x 42 mural on Broadway at 4th, Los Angeles, CA
1992 To Cause To Remember/Statue of Liberty Mural, restored in 2000, 40’ x 80’ mural on Soma Homeless Shelter, San Francisco, CA
1990 Artifact 40’ x 80’ mural, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
1988 Harvey Milk Memorial 40’ x 60’ mural, Harvey Milk Center, San Francisco, CA.
1986 Lakas Sambayanan 35’ x 80’ People Power mural, Alemany Blvd, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS:
2021-2022 California Arts Council Individual Artist Legacy Award
2015 SOMArts Curatorial Residency Program: Glamorgeddon; The Spectacle
2013 Siqueiros Award, Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) Los Angeles
2011 Maryland College for the Arts, Nathan Cummings Foundation Writers Grant
2006 California State University, Research and Scholarship Award
2001 San Francisco Beautification Award
1999 Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize
1999 San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for the Visual Arts
1997 Most Innovative Mural Award
1996 California Arts Council Artist in Residence award
1996 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Initiative Award
1995 California Arts Council Artist in Residence award
1994 Master Muralist Award
1993 Swig Watkins Award
1992 Trefethen Award for the Visual Arts
PUBLICATIONS:
2022 Wall Stories, Published by the Luggage Store
2021 Cultural Corridor/ Urban Flow, Book about AC Transit BRT Tempo public art project
2021 Quasi Extraterratropozine, Terrestrial Terminal/ Earth Station Volume 1, Pro Arts Press
RESIDENCIES:
2022 David Ireland House, performance experimental music composer Chris Brown. SF
2016 Earth Residency, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland
2016 SPARC Digital Lab Residency, Restoration of Calle de La Eternidad, Los Angeles
2015 Curatorial residency, SOMArts, SF
2014 Project Glocal, Manila Transi(en)t, Philippines
2012 Streetwise at Eliava Bazaar, Tiblisi, Republic of Georgia
2010 Villa Montalvo Artist Residency, Saratoga, CA
2002 Project Space, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
TEACHING:
1994- 2018 Professor Emerita, Visual and Public Art department, CSU Monterey Bay
1995 San Francisco State, Art Education
1995 California College of the Arts Multi Media
1993 San Francisco Art Institute Guest Lecturer
1994-96 Artistic Director for Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth
1985-1993 California Arts Council for the Arts Artist in Communities
Selected Books, Articles and Video Documentaries:
The Daily Californian, Listening to lichen: Johanna Poethig’s Hideouts, Escape Hathces and a Submarine unites biology, technology, 2/2022
Sculpture ; A Publication of the International Sculpture Center , Poetry in Motion by Maria Porges, May 19, 2021
Mata ng Agila, Eagle News, Johanna Poethig Public Artist, Mylene Mariano-Rivera 2020
Marin Independent Journal Taking on Filipino Archetypes , Vicky Larson, 2018
Oakland Magazine If the Walls Could Talk, 2018
Art Practical Teaching and Talking about Art and Performance in Unpresidented Times, Thea Quiray Tagle, 2017
Positively Filipino Her Mission Was in the Cards, France Viana, 2017
SFGate Art Picks: Positional Vertigo, Christian L Frock 2017
Hyperallergic Artists Help Break the Silence Around Abuse of Women in War, Dorothy Santos 2016
KQED Arts All that Glitters isn’t Gold: Glamorgeddon at SOMArts Gallery Michelle Carlson 2015
San Francisco Chronicle 96 Hours Glamorgeddon : The Spectacle looks to Entertain and Empower Nirmala Nataraj 2015
SF Weekly Kitschy, Trashy, Intelligent: Glamorgeddon. The Spectacle Laura Jaye Cramer 2015
East Bay Express AC Transit brings no Artists to help design 34 Stations Sam Levin 2014
Artscope New England’s Culture Magazine MLYLT, Boston Center for the Arts, 2013
Boston Art Underground MLYLT, Boston Center for the Arts 2013
The Boston Globe MLYLT 2013
Art Forum November Tri, Tri Again Cathryn Drake 2012
Women and Performance. A Journal of Feminist Theory, Lucy Burns 2012
I-Hotel Writers Group, Vision and Voices, MICA Community Arts Convening, Johanna Poethig, Nancy Hom, Julianne Gavino 2011
San Francisco Chronicle “Hummingbirds in the Tenderloin” Leah Garchek 2011
beyondasiaphilia.wordpress.com ”Mad World Messages to the Future at Galeria de la Raza” Valerie Soe 2010
Philippine News “FilAm in her Heart I-Hotel Mural” Cherie Moreno 2010
Mural Art: Mural on Huge Public Surfaces Around the World by Kiriako Volume 1 and 2 2009
Stanford University Press Asian American Art: A History 1850- 1970 Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johnson, Paul Karlstrom 2008
SF Chronicle “Ingenious Trade Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition” 2008
Philippine Daily Enquirer “Galleon Trade” Fil-am exodus back to the motherland, sets sail” August 2007 Pedro Dumancas
Artweek “Johanna Poethig at Togonon Gallery” Lindsey Westbrook 2007
Asian Journal Filipino Art Exhibit at Thacher Gallery, USF 2007
“Picturing Los Angeles” John and Nancy Wilkman 2006
Art/Vision/Voice Cultural Conversations in Community 2006
Public Art Review “Muralist Spotlight” Muralism Issue Fall 2005
Chicago Tribune “City’s Rich Culture Blooms in Mural” 12/2005
Columbian, Washington “A Picturesque View…” 12/2005
Oakland Tribune Eye on the Arts Brenda Payton 5/2005
Pinay Power by Melinda de Jesus 2005
San Francisco: Third Edition “The Guardians” Photos by Morton Beebe 2003
Artweek “Barrionics does Barrioque” Review by Mark Van Proyen 5/2003
Public Art Review “Dragonfly/Birdwatch” 2003
Shades of Contradiction 2002 Reconstructing Reality “2001 AD”
Stockton Reporter Artistic Soundwall Planned 2002
Co-Lab New Generations Creative Partnerships in Art and Learning 2000
Public Art Review “CAB Top Ads” Fall 2001
Hollow City Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg “How I Saved SF” 2000
Artweek ”How I Saved San Francisco” Art on Market Street” Movie Poster series with Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth 2000
Contra Costa Times Women in Public Art 2000
TDR The Drama Review Lydia Matthews “DIWA Arts and the Bayanihan Spirit” 1999
SF Bay Guardian Fall 1999 Goldie Award
Public Art Review Cesar Chavez Memorial, Prison Poster Project Fall 1999
Asian Art News Sino Ka Ano Ka Exhibit SF State Gallery Spring 1999
Moxie Magazine “A New Race of Barbies” Spring 1999
Painting the Towns Book of California murals, Cover and inside pages. James Prigoff 1997
Press
Poetry in Motion: A Conversation with Mildred Howard and Johanna Poethig
Mills Alumna and Multi Media Artist Spotlight
Johanna Poethig Uses Her Art for Sociopolitical Inquiry
SFGate Art Picks: Positional Vertigo, Christian L Frock 2017
Positively Filipino Her Mission Was in the Cards, France Viana, 2017
Hyperallergic Artists Help Break the Silence Around Abuse of Women in War, Dorothy Santos 2016
KQED Arts All that Glitters isn’t Gold: Glamorgeddon at SOMarts Gallery Michelle Carlson 2015
SF Weekly Kitschy, Trashy, Intelligent: Glamorgeddon. The Spectacle Laura Jaye Cramer 2015
East Bay Express AC Transit brings no Artists to help design 34 Stations Sam Levin 2014
Artscope New England’s Culture Magazine MLYLT, Boston Center for the Arts, 2013
Boston Art Underground MLYLT, Boston Center for the Arts 2013
The Boston Globe MLYLT 2013
Art Forum November Tri, Tri Again Cathryn Drake 2012
Women and Performance. A Journal of Feminist Theory, Lucy Burns 2012
I-Hotel Writers Group, Vision and Voices, MICA Community Arts Convening, Johanna Poethig, Nancy Hom, Julianne Gavino 2011
San Francisco Chronicle “Hummingbirds in the Tenderloin” Leah Garchek 2011
beyondasiaphilia.wordpress.com “Mad World Messages to the Future at Galeria de la Raza” Valerie Soe 2010
Philippine News “FilAm in her Heart I-Hotel Mural” Cherie Moreno 2010
SF Chronicle “Ingenious Trade Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition” 2008
Philippine Daily Enquirer “Galleon Trade” Fil-am exodus back to the motherland, sets sail” Pedro Dumancas 2007
Artweek “Johanna Poethig at Togonon Gallery” Lindsey Westbrook 2007
Asian Journal “Filipino Art Exhibit at Thacher Gallery” USF 2007
“Picturing Los Angeles” John and Nancy Wilkman 2006
Public Art Review “Muralist Spotlight” Muralism Issue Fall 2005
Chicago Tribune “City’s Rich Culture Blooms in Mural” 2005
Columbian, Washington “A Picturesque View…” 2005
Oakland Tribune Eye on the Arts Brenda Payton 2005
Artweek “Barrionics does Barrioque” Review by Mark Van Proyen 2003
Public Art Review “Dragonfly/Birdwatch” 2003
Shades of Contradiction Reconstructing Reality “2001 AD” 2002
Stockton Reporter Artistic Soundwall Planned 2002
Public Art Review “CAB Top Ads” Fall 2001
Artweek “How I Saved San Francisco” Art on Market Street” Movie Poster series with Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth 2000
Contra Costa Times Women in Public Art 2000
TDR The Drama Review Lydia Matthews “DIWA Arts and the Bayanihan Spirit” 1999
SF Bay Guardian Fall 1999 Goldie Award
Public Art Review Cesar Chavez Memorial, Prison Poster Project Fall 1999
Asian Art News Sino Ka Ano Ka Exhibit, SF State Gallery Spring 1999
Moxie Magazine “A New Race of Barbies” Spring 1999
Urban Institute Quarterly “The Untouchables: The Doll Collection” 1997
Public Art Review Liberty Mural Fall 1996
San Francisco Chronicle “This Public Art Delights the Eye” 1995
Chicago Tribune World Cup Soccer mural 1994.
Long Beach Press Telegram ” World Class Murals” 1994
Los Angeles Times “World Cup Soccer murals” 1994
San Francisco Bay Guardian Critic’s Choice: New Langton Arts Exhibit 1993
La Opinion. Los Angeles. “Calle de la Eternidad” 1993
Los Angeles Times “Calle de la Eternidad” 1993
Artspace DIWA Richmond Art Center installation 1993
Shift Magazine Interview 1993
Artweek Cherry Bomb exhibition @ Southern Exposure 1993
Artweek “Auspicious Entries” Marcia Tanner 1992.
Artweek “Community Murals-A Step Ahead of its Time” Tim Dresher 1992.
San Francisco Murals “Community creates its Muse” Timothy Dresher 1990
Artweek Mentopoly Installation, Capp Street Project 1989
SF Focus Magazine Visual Arts Section 1987/ 1989
Tenderloin Times Boeddeker Park mural 1989
Northern California Home and Garden FACES section 1988
Philippine News “People Power Muralized” 1987
Oakland Tribune Old Oakland Murals 1987
KGO TV 7 Harvey Milk Mural 1987
Sentinel Harvey Milk Mural 1987
SF Examiner Harvey Milk mural 1987
SF Chronicle Harvey Milk mural 1987
SF Chronicle “San Francisco Mural Celebrates the Philippine Revolution” 1986
Asian Week “Lakas Sambayanan Makes Its Thrilling Debut” 1986
Artweek “Artists at Work” by Will Torphy. Review of WIGband 1985
Wall Street Journal “Baboon Over San Francisco Billboard” 1985
East Wind Magazine “Ang Lipi ni Lapu-Lapu”, by Antonio de Castro 1985
SF Examiner “90-foot Tribute to the Odyssey of U.S. Filipinos” Ken Wong 1984
Philippine News “Manalo expected to attend unveiling of historic mural” 1984
Oakland Tribune Mural honoring Filipino heroism 1984
Publications
Selected Books, Articles and Video Documentaries:
Wall Stories, by Johanna Poethig, Published by the Luggage Store with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation, 2022
I-Hotel Writers Group, Vision and Voices, MICA Community Arts Convening, Johanna Poethig, Nancy Hom, Julianne Gavino 2011
Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles Artist of the Month 2011
Synchronized Chaos synchchaos.com 2011
Mural Art: Murals on Huge Public Surfaces Around the World …Volume 1 and 2 Kiriakos 2009
beyondasiaphilia.wordpress.com ”Mad World Messages to the Future at Galeria de la Raza” Valerie Soe 2010
Oakland North Juicy Toxins and the Art of Wasak Carlos Davalos 2010 http://oaklandnorth.net/2009/02/08/juicy-toxins/
Women Artists of the American West Purdue University Terri Cohn , Susan Ressler, Jerrold Maddox
Stanford University Press Asian American Art: A History 1850- 1970 Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johnson, Paul Karlstrom 2008
“Picturing Los Angeles” John and Nancy Wilkman 2006
Art/Vision/Voice Cultural Conversations in Community 2006
Pinay Power by Melinda de Jesus 2005
San Francisco: Third Edition “The Guardians” Photos by Morton Beebe 2003
Shades of Contradiction 2002 Reconstructing Reality “2001 AD”
Co-Lab New Generations Creative Partnerships in Art and Learning 2000
Hollow City Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg “How I Saved SF” 2000
TDR The Drama Review Lydia Matthews “DIWA Arts and the Bayanihan Spirit” 1999
Moxie Magazine “A New Race of Barbies” Spring 1999
Painting the Towns Book of California murals, Cover and inside pages. James Prigoff 1997
New York Foundation for the Arts “Links to Curriculum-A Question of Degree” 1995
San Francisco Artspace Shift Magazine-Stretch Camera Project 1991
MidMarch Arts Press Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, California Women Artists 1989
Carte Blanche-The Contemporary Face of Billboard. Video documentary by Collier/Martinez 1985
“Ang Lipi ni Lapu-Lapu” Video documentary by Human Ties Productions, Naomi de Castro and Antonio de Castro. Funded through AT&T and San Francisco Production Group. 1984