About the Artist
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Las Vegas-based Filipino painter Gig Depio presents the conjunctions of contemporary and historical forces in the form of intense, often large-scale, figurative compositions. Depio’s body of work focuses on American culture and its history, the exploration of the unfamiliar west and later expansion and influence across the globe, especially on the convergence of American, Philippine, and Spanish histories at the turn of the 20th century, and the inevitable interweaving of many different cultures from then on. His individual paintings depict particular political and cultural events in points of time and geographical space in history, but his body of work seen as a whole encapsulates a much bigger picture of how our ideologies and resulting collective human endeavors have directly affected every aspect of our environment in the age of the Anthropocene.
Recipient of the 2016 Nevada Arts Council Fellowship Grant in Painting, he has exhibited across Nevada, with shows at the Nevada Museum of Art, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the University of Nevada in Reno, and the Clark County Winchester Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, among others. Depio has been an exponent for public, non-profit and independent art in Nevada since 2009, and has recently extended his advocacy internationally, including exhibitions with the National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA), Manila, Philippines in 2018, and in the 58th Venice Biennale, Giudecca Art District (GAD), Venice, Italy in 2019. |
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ExhibitionsSolo Exhibitions:
2019 "Rewriting Barry" Three Works Gallery Scarborough, Yorkshire, UK 2018 “Through the Muddy” Moapa Community Center Overton, NV 2018 “Americana in Cadmium Orange” Capital City Arts Initiative Carson City, Nevada 2018 “Bring Home the Bacon” National Commission for Culture and Arts Office of the President Manila, Philippines 2017 “Negotiating the Influence of Culture” Nevada Arts Council OXS Gallery Carson City, NV 2016 “A Bigger Picture” Nevada Art Council Fellowship Exhibition Curated by Dr. Robert Tracy Healy & Hayes Gallery UNLV Ham Concert Hall, Las Vegas, NV 2015 “Darkening Shadows Kept in Time” Curated by Dr. Robert Tracy Healy & Hayes Gallery UNLV Ham Concert Hall, Las Vegas, NV 2014 “A Brief History” Winchester Cultural Center Gallery Curated by Darren Johnson Clark County Las Vegas, NV Group Exhibitions: 2019 ”There Are No Titans” Gig Depio, Waseem Marzouki, Tanner Goldbeck Giudecca Arts District 58th Venice Biennale, Italy 2019 “Birds of NV”, Darren Johnson & Gig Depio Priscilla Fowler Gallery Las Vegas NV 2018 “Year of the Pig” Mayors Gallery Las Vegas NV 2018 “Future Present” Mono8 Gallery Manila, Philippines 2018 “Plurals” Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, UNLV Las Vegas, NV 2018 “Year of the Dog” curated by Jeanne Voltura Mayor’s Gallery Las Vegas, NV 2017 “Us” Blueline Gallery Roseville, CA 2017 “Pink” Castelli Artist Space Los Angeles, CA 2017 “Making a Mark” curated by Paul Baker Prindle Nevda Arts Council Carson City, NV 2017 “Nevada Crossroads” Nevada Humanities Program Gallery 2017 “ZAP 9” Lone Mountain, Clark County, NV 2017 “Red”, Aerial Gallery Curated by Rebecca Holden City of Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada 2017 “Tilting The Basin Las Vegas” Nevada Museum of Art Las Vegas, Nevada 2017 “Greyscale” Curated by Jerry Schefcik UNLV Donna Beam Fine Art Las Vegas NV 2017 “Year of the Rooster”, Curated by Jeanne Voltura Mayor’s Gallery, Las Vegas, NV 2016 “Chevere” Curated by Didi Menendez Sirona Fine Art Gallery, Miami, FL 2016 "Skull" Curated by Chris Bauder The Studio, Sahara West Gallery 2016 “Tilting The Basin” Curated by JoAnne Northrup and Michele C. Quinn Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada 2016 “Transcribing Nevada” Nevada Humanities Program Gallery, Las Vegas, NV 2016 “Dishing It Out 2016” Curated by Diane Bush Sahara West Gallery, Las Vegas NV 2016 “Aesthetics Primary”, Curated by Jeanne Voltura Mayor’s Gallery Historic Fifth Street School, Las Vegas, NV 2015 Nevada State College Inaugural Collection James E. & Beverly Student Center 2015 “A Nevada Collection: Poetry and Art” Curated by Bobbie Ann Howell Nevada Humanities, Art Square, Las Vegas, NV 2015 “It Happened Like This” Curated by Jeanne Voltura Mayor’s Gallery Historic Fifth Street School, Las Vegas, NV 2015 “Riviera Bon Voyage” Curated by Brent Holmes Blackbird Studios, Las Vegas 2015 “The Artists that Took Over Maryland Parkway”, Nevada Humanities, Art Square, Las Vegas, NV 2015 ZAP 7 Clark County Parks & Recreation, Las Vegas NV 2015 “Year of the Goat” Exhibition Curated by Jeanne Voltura Mayor’s Gallery Historic Fifth Street School Las Vegas, NV 2014 “Guerrilla Kage” December Group Show 18b Arts District, Las Vegas, NV 2014 “Robots & Dinosaurs” Exhibition Blackbird Studios, Las Vegas, NV 2014 "III Many" Group Show Vast Space Projects, Las Vegas, NV 2014 Art Quorum Group Show, Las Vegas, NV 2014 MAS Attack Vegas Group Show Vast Space Projects, Las Vegas, NV 2014 CAC 25th Juried Exhibition Contemporary Art Center, Las Vegas, NV 2014 “Lilliputians March” Exhibition Purdue University Galleries West Lafayette, IN 2013 “Disruptions in Red” Exhibition Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines |
Grants and Awards2015 Nevada Arts Council (NAC) Fellowship Grant (Painting) 2016
2014 Jackpot Grant, Nevada Arts Council (NAC), Las Vegas, NV 2014 Finalist, 25th Juried Exhibition, Contemporary Art Center Las Vegas 2014 Finalist, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN Collections2016 Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada Las Vegas
2015 Nevada State College Inaugural Collection Education1999-2002
Private Instruction and apprentice under Gig C. De Pio, father, Fine Arts Professor, University of the Philippines, Department of Fine Arts 1994-1999 AB Interdisciplinary Studies, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines Lectures and Talks2016
"What is the Artist Thinking?" Charleston Heights Arts Center City of Las Vegas Galleries 2016 “Why Art Today?” Nevada Humanities, Art Square, Las Vegas, NV 2016 “A Bigger Picture” NAC Fellowship Lecture with Dr. Robert Tracy Healy & Hayes Gallery, UNLV Ham Concert Hall, Las Vegas, NV 2016 "The Campus Canvas: An Evening of Art, Architecture, & Design" Nevada State College, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV Select PublicationsTaylor, F Andrew, “Paintings provide outsider’s perspective on life in Las Vegas”, Las Vegas Review-Journal, December 30, 2014 http://www.reviewjournal.com/view/sunrise/paintings-provide-outsider-s-perspective-life-las- vegas
Peterson, Kristen, “GIG DEPIO’S ‘A BRIEF HISTORY’ TACKLES IMMIGRATION, POLITICS AND SOCIAL MEDIA”, Las Vegas Weekly, November 26, 2014 http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/ae/fine-art/2014/nov/26/gig-depios-first-solo-show-las-vegas- heavy-dose-so/ Fuentes, Ed, “GIG DEPIO'S "A BRIEF HISTORY" OPENS AT WINCHESTER”, November 18, 2014, http://www.paintthisdesert.com/field-notes/new-gig Menendez, Didi, “Encore”, iArtistas, May 15, 2015 Hess, F. Scott, “Figural Movement, “ Poets and Artists, May 2015 Kelemen, Matt, “A Bigger Picture,” Luxury Las Vegas Magazine, December Issue 2015, http://mobile.luxurylv.com/i/609126-december-art-design-innovation Hickey, Dave, compiled by Friedman, Julia, “Wasted Words: The Essential Dave Hickey Online Compilation”, PCP Press, 2016 |