Amiel Gerald A. Roldan was born in 1972 in the City of Mandaluyong, Philippines. He studied painting at the University of the Philippines in Diliman where he took up BA Fine Arts Studio Painting and Certificate of Fine Arts. Roldan has been invited to the 1996 Japan-Asia Print Art Exhibition at the Fukuoka Prefectural Museum in Japan and at the 4th Triennial Mondiale D' Estampes Petit Format in Chamalières, France in 1998. His print works were collected by the Singapore Museum since 2001 and the Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI) in Pennsylvania in 2004.
Roldan was a grant awardee of the Asian Cultural Council ( ACC ), New York and the Starr Foundation Fund (The Asian Cultural Council is an affiliate of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund .) He was also the first Filipino artist at the International Studio and Curatorial Program ( ISCP ) in New York City in 2003. Here at ISCP he had open studios which opened to the international art community of the city exhibiting his prints and drawings . This 10-month stay was his earliest artist residency grant and opportunity to travel abroad . He continuously applies for full grant artist residencies to be able to improve in his chosen profession .
While there, he created new works in relief and collage prints , acrylics and oil paintings , photo graphs and drawings during his stay at ISCP. He also received an artist in residence subsidized studio from Chashama in 2004 located at the 40th Woolworth Bldg. in Tribeca NYC for several months. (The Chashama Organization awards subsidized artist studios in some prime locations around Manhattan, New York City.)
He was an artist visitor at the Experimental Printmaking Institute ( EPI ) in Lafayette College in Pennsylvania in 2004. He was invited by then Director-Printmaker Curlee Holton while also with the Asian Cultural Council grant. He hopes to further collaborate with the other artists of EPI in the future.
He has participated in group exhibitions . He has exhibited since 1994, including Ang Delatang Pinoy. Yes the Filipino Can!!! at the Hiraya Gallery, the Jorge B. Vargas Museum, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the University of the Philippines Baguio in 1995; Memoirs of Pipay at the Hiraya Gallery in 1996; Crossroads at the Australia Center in 1998, Xprint at the Vargas Museum in 1998; Reprint : A Collaboration Between Filipino and Australian Artists at the Australia Center in 1998; Todays Show at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1999, Bathala Na at the Art Center in 2000, Surface at the Ayala Museum in 2002, The Art of Printmaking with Xerox -- a group show with printmakers at the Lisa H. Mackie Studios in New York City February 2005, Zero In Constructs : Analog / Playground : Extensions to the Graphic at Ateneo Art Gallery in 2005, Retroactive at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Main Gallery in 2005 and In the Ocean Without a Boat or a Paddle with Blanc Gallery Shaw Compound in 2009.
He has also coordinated with artists and printmakers abroad like the resident artists of Studio One in Canberra, Australia.
Amiel Roldan has had his solo exhibition in relief prints at the Hiraya Gallery in 2000 with Crossover: Memoirs of Pipay and Ang Huling Hari collected at the Singapore museum and another solo exhibition at the Kulay Diwa Galleries in 2003 with Pasintabi . He then had a solo show collected abroad with Coll è Prints at the Lisa H. Mackie Studios located at Chelsea, New York City in 2004. Simultaneously he had open studio exhibits with Sloper Drawings at the ISCP in 2003 and 2004 located at Hell's Kitchen New York City collected at the Rockefeller building and with Chashama at 40th Woolworth's Building in Tribeca District.
' Remembering Pipay! ' a solo exhibit of relief prints at Bliss Cafe located at Woods Place Inn Military Cut-off Road Baguio City, Philippines for the benefit of HANDS, Inc. a non-profit organization for AIDS victims in the Philippines In part with the Aids Awareness campaign in 2005, the series of relief prints were also collected.
He won awards and distinctions through the AAP and PAP competitions for printmaking, while placed first for paintings and sculptures in other competitions.
PS I was fortunate to get a subsidized space in New York City for several months on the later part of my stay. This is with the help of an organization called Chashama. I was able to introduce both ACC director Sarah Bradley and Chashama director Anita Durst in my solo opening "Colle Prints" at Lisa Mackie Gallery in New York City. They hit it off and eventually, Chashama became part of a program with the Rockefeller Foundation.
(1) Chashama supports artists by giving them space to create and present their work. Chashama was founded in 1995 in response to the lack of affordable space for emerging artists in New York to create and present their work. Since then Chashama has activated over 80 unused properties, providing space to create and space to present to 15,000 artists. Chashama partners with property owners to repurpose unused commercial real estate into space for artists' dreams to become reality.
Amiel Gerald A. Roldan
35 P. Oliveros St., Barangka Ibaba,
Mandaluyong City, Philippines 1550
amiel.roldan@gmail.com +63 905302765
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