Dina Gadia
Biography
Dina Gadia (b.1986, Pangasinan, Philippines) is an artist recognised for her visually arresting and playfully representational style. Imbued with her signature pop sensibility, her collages and paintings combine ambiguous text and other quotidian expressions with popular printed matter such as "B" movie posters, album covers, pulp, comics, and other obscure images. By reframing images of previous generations as her own, she evokes large localised contexts and people to critically interrogate issues regarding postcolonial attitudes, disparate economic realities, and female inequity.
Notable information
• Recipient of the prestigious Thirteen Artists Awards from the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2018)
• Finalist for the Ateneo Art Awards (2012 & 2018)
• Member of the "Bastards of Misrepresentation" group curated by Manuel Ocampo
• Has exhibited extensively since 2005 in major cities including New York, Taipei, Singapore, and Tokyo
• Featured in "City Prince/sses" at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019)
• Currently represented by Silverlens Galleries in Manila & New York
