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Philippine-born, American artist, Cirilo Domine lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BA from UCLA (1993) and his MFA from UC Irvine (1996). He is an artist working in the genres of drawing, installation, and mixed media. He is also a continuing, certified student in the Urasenke School of Tea in Japan and Los Angeles.

Exhibition highlights: Analog Among Nations: A Sewing Circle at the Broad Museum and Wende Museum, Crosscurrents, organized by Sothebys Art Institute at Claremont College; Singing in the Dark: a Meditation on Migration at Art Salon Chinatown, Los Angeles. still.here, a performative garment exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum and Pintados Philippine Expressions Gallery, San Pedro, California.

He organized I'm pure i tea, a traditional tea ceremony at the MAK Center's Schindler House where he collaborated with artists Anna Sew Hoy, Michael Queenland, Pato Hebert, Ashley Hunt and others.

He has had one-person exhibitions at Del Vaz Projects, Artist Curated Projects, Deepriver, Commonwealth and Council and has been included in group shows at The Broad Museum, The Wende Museum, M&B Gallery, the MAK Center at the Schindler House, Pinta Dos/Philippine Expressions Gallery, Huntington Botanical Gardens, Plug-In Gallery Exit Art, and the LA Gay and Lesbian Center’s Advocate Magazine Gallery.

Artist Statement

My art practice is encyclopedic rather than serial. As a bridge builder to many cultures I inhabit, the work points to an exchange, reciprocation, and return - from the Philippines, Japan and the United States. Visually and culturally crossing bridges I negotiate, acknowledge and reveal the hurts in history, recognizing absences and gaps and consciously translate and mistranslate systems and forms to create new subjectivities.

My tea training in the Urasenke school of tea, where I have been practicing for 15 years informs my work. What I appreciate about my ongoing exploration of tea culture is the pervasive interconnections between artwork genres. As a student, we are encouraged to dig deeper into several interests and my work has become that - moving from one medium to another while linking narratives.

Materials vary from textiles, garments, clay, paper. I have been practicing as an artist for over 25 years. I went to an art academy with a conceptual bend, heavy on social, queer, race theory but I go back to my earlier education and crafts training that I received in the Philippines. I find working with my hands as a form of inheritance passed on to me. It was through osmosis, indirect learning within my community thatI learned how to sew, weave and shape bamboo.

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