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Tanks A Lot, Wood and glue, 18 x 18 x 18 cm, 2003
Michael Arcega
Michael Arcega (b. 1973 Manila) will receive an MFA in Studio Practice from Stanford University in Stanford, California, in 2009, and received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco in 1998. Selected solo exhibitions include Homing Pidgen: Michael Arcega Collections Connections Program at the de Young Museum in San Francisco (2007); Getting Mid-Evil at Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco (2006); CERCA Series: Michael Arcega at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Downtown in San Diego, California (2005); Divide and Concur at Lucky Tackle in Oakland, California (2004); and Plein Hair for Leefahsalung at the New Chinatown Barbershop in Los Angeles (2002). Selected group exhibitions include Age of Everything at Thomas Welton Stanford Gallery in Stanford, California (2007); One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now at the Berkeley Art Musuem in Berkeley, California (2007); Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (2007); The Landscape of War at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose, California (2007); Quote Unquote at NURTUREart Gallery in New York (2007); and Galleon Trade: Philippines - California - Mexico at Mag:Net Galleries and Green Papaya Gallery in Manila (2007). He is represented by Marx & Zavattero in San Francisco. Michael Arcega lives and works in San Francisco.