Augustine Paredes Philippines, b. 1994

Born in 1994 in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, Augustine is a multi-disciplinary Filipino artist who works in photography, painting, installation, and poetry.

His expanded photographic practice revolves around and evolves in questioning the post-colonial identity of a Filipino in the diaspora through different appropriations of artistic mediums, traditional materials, and historical and personal narratives.

Augustine studied Fine Arts (Prof. Haegue Yang) at Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule (2025) and has a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication from Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines.

Solo exhibitions include Artist's Room, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2024);Yearning the Sun to Fall, Fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2023); Light Leaks, Foundry, Dubai, UAE (2023); Paradise4ever, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE (2022); How Strangers Meet, Today X Future, Quezon City, Philippines (2016); We Are Water, Abreeza, Davao City, Philippines (2015). 

He has participated in the following select group exhibitions: RAY Triennale, Soft Proof Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2024); Tea Room Relay: Pit Stop Delfina Foundation, London, UK (2023); Editions, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE (2023); Hemispheres, Tarzeer Pictures, Manila, Philippines (2023); Object Orientations, Gravity Art Space, Manila, Philippines (2023); Palimpsest of Time, Royal Commission of AlUla, Saudi Arabia (2022); The Bitter Taste of Sweetness, Royal Commission of AlUla, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2022); Goethe Institut: Love Labor Leisure, 2021); Between the Sky and the Earth:Contemporary Art from the UAE, Middle East Institute, Washington DC, USA (2021); As We Gaze Upon Her, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2021); Made In The Emirates?, Sotheby's DIFC, Dubai, UAE (2021); Mina Zayed: Reflections on Past Futures, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2020); Record Record: Long Night Stands With Lonely, Lonely Boys, Tarzeer Pictures, Manila, Philippines (2019) and Cooking Adobo in the Heart of Dubai, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE (2019).

Commissions include Verses in Reverse and A Poem, A Garden at Alserkal Arts Foundation (2022) and (2021), together with other commissions by Art Dubai, Diriyah Biennale, Jamerl Arts Centre, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, Goethe Institut, and the Royal Commission of AlUla. 

He has participated in residencies and fellowships at the National Museum of Modern and  Contemporary Art Korea — Goyang Residency, AlUla Artist Residency, Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, Campus Art Dubai, and the International Summer School of Photography in Latvia. 

As a writer, Augustine has published several art and poetry books, including Conversations at the end of the universe (2020), Long Night Stands With Lonely, Lonely Boys (2021), Happy to be here to be happy (2022), The Bitter Taste of Sweetness (2022), and Slow Disco (2024).

He is the co-founder of Sa Tahanan Collective alongside curator Anna Bernice delos Reyes, aiming to create a platform for Filipino art and creatives through exhibitions, art sales, and collaborations.

Augustine is based between Dubai and Frankfurt.