SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS

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2022

History in RGB, Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (solo)

Natural History, 2-person exhibition with Talia Greene, Past Present Projects, Philadelphia, PA
Companions: Mas Masarap Magkasama, (in collaboration with Bahay215), The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA

 

2021

Thread, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing Township, NJ (catalogue)

Through The Lens, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

Breathing Room, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Archives Reimagined, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

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2020

one never remembers alone, USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

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2019

Te Whāinga: a culturelab on civility, presented by Auckland Museum and Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Auckland, New Zealand

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2018

The Project Mosaic 2018, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA. (2-person exhibition)

Making Space: Leeway @25, The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Womankind’s Art Exhibit, One Art Gallery, New York, NY

Electric Dreams and Other Strange Occurrences. Pingyao International Photography Festival in China. Pingyao, China. Curator: James Ramer

Then And Now, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA. Curator: Alexandra Chang

History in RGB, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

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2017

Hurry Up and Wait, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA. Curator: Adriel Luis

History in RGB, Black Oak House, West Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Parallel Fields: Julianna Foster and Maria Dumlao, Recitation Gallery at University of Delaware, Newark, DE (2-person exhibition)

Boundaries, Brentwood Arts Exchange at Gateway Arts Center, Riverdale, MD. Curator: Erin Devine and Phil Davis

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2016
Mimesis, Stage II, Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA (solo in collaboration with Eugene Lew)

 

2015
Next To Nothing, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) 

 

2014
Isolated Fictions, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL. Curator: Caroline Picard/Lantern Projects
The Woodmere Annual, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Curator: Sarah McEneany

Expanded Earthly World, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

 

2013

Biennial Arts Faculty Exhibition, Hicks Art Center Gallery, Newtown, PA

Vox Populi, The Front, New Orleans, LASpark Gap, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

 

2012

Alanta, Billboard Art Project, Atlanta, GASound Places, Commotion Festival, Philadelphia, PA

 

2011

HOMELAND a screening of short films about place, Maas Building, Philadelphia, PA. Curator: Jesse PiresBiennial Arts Faculty Exhibition, Hicks Art Center Gallery, Newtown, PABucks Faculty Exhibition, University of the Arts-Hamilton Hall Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

 

2010

Landscape Techne, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA. Curator: Kristen Neville-Taylor (catalogue)

Yet Another Roadside Attraction, The Richmond Billboard Project, Richmond, VA

Forecast, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

 

2009     

tart@A.I.R., A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Kat Griefen

The Society of Korean Photography International Festival for Photography and Video, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea (catalogue)

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2008     

Creative Cartographies Film & Video Screening, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Jeanne Gerrity.

Un/Veiled Visions, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY. Curators: Dahn Hiuni & Hyewon Yi.

The Main Event, Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York, NY. Curators: Trey Edwards & Thomas Seely.

 

2007     

1800FRAMES|Take3, The Jersey City Museum: Jersey City, NJ.

Video Dictionary, La Noche En Blanco: Matadero Madrid, Spain (catalogue)

1800FRAMES|Take3, Woods Hole Film Festival: Woods Hole, MA.

1800FRAMES|Take3, MomentFactory: Montreal, Canada.

1800FRAMES|Take3, The Pioneer Theater: East Village, NY.

1800FRAMES|Take3, SCOPENY Art Fair: Lincoln Center, NY-Cinema-Scope, New York, NY.

                 

2006     

1800FRAMES|Take3, City Without Walls Main Gallery, Newark, NJ

Empire’s Feast, Firehall Arts Centre, Powell Street Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Curators:  Jenny Ham and Cindy Mochizuki.

Alimatuan: The Emerging Artist as American Filipino, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI.  Curator: Kóan Jeff Baysa.

Video Dictionary, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Video Dictionary, Image Forum Festival, Park Toewr Hall, Tokyo, Japan

Video Dictionary, Image Forum Festival, Goethe-Institute, Kyoto, Japan                

 

2005     

Video Dictionary, Impakt Festival, Casco Gallery, Utrecht, Holland

Video Dictionary, Loop:  The Video Art Fair ‘05, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain

Faculty Exhibition, Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor, Utica, NY

Empire’s Feast, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY.

Empire’s Feast, Video in Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Empire’s Feast, PH Gallery, New York, NY

Video Dictionary, The Video Art Foundation, Island Art Film and Video Festival, London, England

 

2004     

Video Dictionary, The Video Art Foundation, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

Re: Source, Art in General, New York, NY

Silhouette, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)

 

2003     

Naturbeobachtungen, Pfefferberg, Berlin, Germany.  Curators: Edmund Piper and Andreas Engler

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College (catalogue) (solo exhibition)

Inverse: Oslo , Galleri 21/25, Oslo, Norway

 

2002     

Video Trade , Interflugs, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany

2002 Improvised and Otherwise: A Festival of Sound & Form, Williamsburg Arts Nexus, Brooklyn, NY

 

 

SELECTED EARLY COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

 

2013

Solar Motel, The Rotunda, Philadelphia, PA (live video and performance with Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band

Fort Thunder Attaks...Again!, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA (in collaboration with Vox Populi artists)

 

2012

It’s The End Of The World (Again!), PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA (in collaboration with Michele Guieu)

Time Capsule, Sight and Sound, Billboard Art Project, Richmond, VA (in collaboration with Michele Guieu)

 

2011

Real Time, Mabel Smith Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. (in collaboration with Brainstormers)

 

2009

then and now: site specific works in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, LGBT Center, New York, NY. (in collaboration with Brainstormers) Curator: Christopher Hanway (catalogue)

 

2008

Get Mad, Chelsea District, NY, NY (street performance in collaboration with Brainstormers and Guerrilla Girls)Making It Together: Women's Collaborative Art and Community, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. (in collaboration with Brainstormers and Guerrilla Girls) Curator: Carey Lovelace

Air Kissing, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA. (in collaboration with Brainstormers) Curator: Sasha Archibald.

 

2007

Air Kissing, Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Weather Report, 41st BAC International Film & Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY. (in collaboration with Brainstormers)

Have You Seen or Herd?, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY. (in collaboration with Brainstormers)

 

2006

Redhead, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York. Curator: Seth Cameron (in collaboration with Brainstormers)

The “F” Word ‘Zine Project, Brainstormers, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (in collaboration with Brainstormers)

How Good Are You? performance across from Armory Show, Pier 90, New York, NY (in collaboration with Brainstormers)

 

2005

Point, performance in front of PS1, Long Island City, NY (in collaboration with Brainstormers)

The Go Show, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, New York, NY (in collaboration with Elaine Kaufman and Jane Johnston)

The Go Show, Brooklyn Community Access Television, Brooklyn, NY (in collaboration with Elaine Kaufman and Jane Johnston)

 

2003     

Relentless Red, One Arm Red, Brooklyn, NY (video installation in collaboration with dancer Estelle Woodward and musician Jeff Arnal)

 

2002     

Loophole, Dumbo Arts Festival , White Wave, Brooklyn, NY (video installation in collaboration with dancer Estelle Woodward and musician Jeff Arnal)

Cluster, Galapagos Art & Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY (video installation in collaboration with dancer Estelle Woodward and musician Jeff Arnal)

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Aronowitz, Nona Willis and Emma Bee Bernstein, Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, Berkeley: Seal Press, 2009, Pg 156.

Battista, Kathy, “Re-Envisioning a Feminist Practice for the Twenty-First Century.” New York New Wave The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Carter, Robert. “Brainstorming the Armory?” Mixed Greens Blog, March 13, 2006, <www.thepit.typepad.com>.

Cryer, Logan. “Maria Dumlao Uses Color Politically in Her Phenomenal Work ‘History in RGB.’” Artblog, Theartblog.org, 3 May 2021, <https://www.theartblog.org/2021/05/maria-dumlao-uses-color-politically-in-her-phenomenal-work-history-in-rgb/>.
Dube, Ilene. "Debunking the Artist Myth" The Artful Blogger, November 4, 2011.Dyke, Timothy.  “’Alimatuan’ Employs Wit, Culture In Enthralling Show,” The Honolulu Advertiser, 4 June 2006.Fallon, Roberta.  "Greater Than What.” 2005. <www.fallonandrosof.com/2005/03/greater-than-what.html>.

Fry, Warren. “The Brainstormers” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2008.

Haney, Paul. "The Duchess Of Oysterville." Tiny Mix Tapes Music Review. July 2007.

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Keithley, Karrine. “Seeking the Red.”  2003.  < www.offoffoff.com/dance/2003/redshoes.php>.

Kinney, Jen. “3 Must-See New Art Exhibits This Month: Our Picks from May’s ‘First Friday’.” WHYY: Things To Do, 9 May 2018, <https://whyy.org/articles/3-must-see-new-art-exhibits-this-month-our-picks-from-mays-first-friday/>.

Krieger, Deborah. “Layers Of Narrative In Maria Dumlao’s ‘History in RGB’ at Vox Populi Gallery” theartblog.org., 16 Mar. 2018. Web 16 Mar. 2018. <https://www.theartblog.org/2018/03/layers-of-narrative-in-maria-dumlaos-history-in-rgb-at-vox-populi-gallery/>.

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Lemelle, Pualana.  “Fil-Am Artists’ Works Featured At Contemporary Museum,” Hawaii Filipino Chronicle, 10 June 2006

Makary, J.  “HOMELAND at Maas Space,” The Nicola Midnight St. Claire, November 13, 2011.McDonough, Yona Zeldis.  “On Being Brainstormers,” NYFA Current, August 2009.

Morse, Marica.  “Point Of Departure,” Honolulu Weekly, 19-25 July 2006

Piper, Edmund.  “Naturbeobachtungen,” Kondensat, June 2003.

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Warburton, Dan. The Wire, July 2007: 45.

Zimmer, Amy, "Women Protest at PS1’s Art Show,” Metro, 14 Mar. 2005:  1+.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

An Ally, Isang Alay, at Manananggal.  2018, Letters to a Young Brown Girl,  Barbara Jane Reyes (author), Rochester, NY: B0A Editions, 2020, front cover.

History in RGB. 2018, Storyscape Literary Journal, cover art, Issue 20., 2018. Online Publication.

Sound of Art, vinyl LP, published by Art Fag City, 2010 (compilation)

Private Eye, NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 5/6, May/June 2008: 84.

Brainstormers Report Photo Essay. Activisms, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, Fall/Winter 2007: 144-149. 6-page photo essay; Women’s Studies Quarterly/Feminist Press and the Center for Graduate Study at the City University of New York

Interrogation Mark. 2007, AnOther Publication, Front Cover, Summer 2007. Published by Piet Zwart Institute/Revolver. Edited by Katarina Zdjelar and Renée Ridgway.

Brainstormers Report: Scene & Herd, Volume 2, May 2007. (self-published), 8 pages.

The Cutting Edge and The Corporate Agenda. Women & Environments International Magazine, No. 72/73, Spring 2007. Published by the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto: 57-58

Brainstormers Report: Gallery Guide, Vol. 1, March 2006. (self-published) 12 pages

 

 

TEACHING and RELATED EXPERIENCE

 

2009-present: Associate Professor, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA

2008: Adjunct Professor, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY

2005-2008: Head Technician, Parsons New School of Design Photo and Digital Lab, New York, NY

2006 2008: Adjunct Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2007: Substitute Assistant Professor (FT), Hostos Community College of CUNY, Bronx, NY

2005-2006: Adjunct Professor, Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor, Utica, NY

2006: Photoshop Instructor, The Field/Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY

2005: Certified Television Producer, Brooklyn Community Access Television, Brooklyn, NY

2003-2005: Photo Edit Traffic Assistant, Time Magazine, New York, NY.

2002: Intern, Harvestworks Digital Arts Media, New York, NY.

2001-2002: Art Teacher, Avance After-School Program, High School of World Cultures, Bronx, NY

2000-2001: Studio Assistant, Michelle Stuart, New York, NY.

2000- 2001: Teacher's Assistant, Roy DeCarava, Hunter College, New York, NY

 

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS, PANEL, and SERVICE

 

2019

Juror, Fleisher Art Memorial Wind Challenge, Philadelphia, PA

Guest Artist, Oh, Snap!, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA

Curator, And this is how you are a citizen..., Hicks Arts Center Gallery, Newtown, PA

 

2018

Workshop Leader, First Friday Interactive Workshop at Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
Panelist, Leeway Foundation Art and Technology Residency at NextFab

Speaker, Dialogic: MATERIALITY, 2018 SPE Annual Conference (Society of Photographic Education), Philadelphia

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2014

Panelist, Performing Collectivity (moderated by Jamillah James), Aux Performance Space, Philadelphia, PA

 

2013-present

Co-coordinator, Fourth Wall, new media project space at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

 

2011

Curator, The Big Idea, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA

 

2010

Advisor, New Hope Film Festival, New Hope, PA

 

2008

Jury Panelist, Manhattan Community Arts Fund for Visual Art, Media & New Media, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC

Panelist, 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council/BAC International Film & Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY

 

2007     

Panelist, Bronx Council on the Arts 2007 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Award, Bronx, NY

Panelist, The New Feminisms: Promoting Diversity, Outreach & Inclusion, Women’s Media Center, NYC.

 

2004 and 2003

Curator, Materiality of Sound in Image, Improvised and Otherwise: A Festival of Sound & Form,

Williamsburg Arts Nexus, Brooklyn, NY

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

2017-present   Jerry's On Front, co-founder of project space and music rehearsal rooms, Philadelphia, PA

2012-2018        Vox Populi, member of an artist-run collective and gallery space in Philadelphia, PA

2005-2011        Brainstormers, a multi-disciplinary art collective Co-founder & Co-organizer, New York, NY

2010-2011        Little Berlin, member of an artist-run collective and gallery space in Philadelphia, PA

2005-2010        tART, a Women’s Art Collective member, New York, NY