ONGOING
(AU) "Staging Oneself: Photography and New Media Self-Portraits by Women Artists" at Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia, February 24 — June 2, 2024 . Artists: Cindy Sherman, Sama Alshaibi, Wawi Navarroza, asinnajaq, Vivienne Binns, Yuki Kihara, Tracy Moffat, Khadija Saye, Trish Morrissey, Pushpamala N., Dita Pepe, Julie Rrap, Tomoko Sawada, Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart
(PH) "Time Bubble" presented by Fotomoto at Finale Art File, Manila, April 11 — May 2, 2024 . Artist Talk April 13 .
(PH) "Markers: Silverlens at 20" at Silverlens Gallery Manila, March 21 — April 17, 2024
TALKS
(PH) "Photography is the Future" at ALT Philippines, moderated by Stephanie Frondoso, in panel: Wawi Navarroza, Veejay Villafranca, Enzo Razon, Gio Panlilio and Jed Gregorio, SMX Convention Center, February 22, 2024, 4pm
(US) SMFA Tufts: Wawi Navarroza artist talk at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, MA, January 26, 2024
(US) RISD Museum: Wawi Navarroza artist talk at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, MA, January 24, 2024
(SG) "Images On The Run: Wawi Navarroza & Miti Ruangkritya" National Gallery of Singapore, May 2023
NEWS
(PRESS) The New York Times: "What To See in Galleries in February — Wawi Navarroza: The Other Shore in Chelsea" February 2024
(PRESS) Hyperallergic: "Wawi Navarroza’s Self-Portraits Contain Multitudes" by Eileen Isagon Skyers, February 20, 2024
(VIDEO) The Brooklyn Rail: "Wawi Navarroza: The Other Shore — Artist Wawi Navarroza joins curator CJ Salapare for a conversation" for The New Social Environment episode #1011 . February 27, 2024
(PRESS) Art+ Magazine: "The Power of Women" April 4, 2024
(PRESS) Art+ Magazine: "Self-Portraits in Polychome" by Sean Carballo, March 6, 2024
(PRESS) Artnet: "Photographer Wawi Navarroza’s US Debut Is a Feast of Maximalist Portraiture", January 14, 2024
(PRESS) CNN Life Philippines: "Worlds collide in Wawi Navarroza's first New York exhibit", January 9, 2024
(PRESS) Art Talk SEA: Wawi Navarroza in conversation with Tony Godfrey, January 3, 2024
(BOOK) "EYE MAMA: Poetic Truths on Home and Motherhood" published by TeNeues UK, release May 2023
(PRESS) Vogue Philippines: Artist Spotlight Wawi Navarroza "Wild At Heart", March 2023
(PRESS) Plural Art Magazine SG: Wawi Navarroza eludes definition in her latest solo As Wild As We Come, March 25, 2023
(PRESS) CNN Life Philippines: Wawi Navarroza's uses her body as her artistic medium by Yvette Fernandez, March 16, 2023
(PRESS) The Philippine Star Life: Wawi Navarroza and the unbearable strength of the female artist by Nicole Soriano, February 20, 2023
(PRESS) NOLISOLI: Wawi Navarroza on becoming a mother and artist: ‘As women, we can always come back to our power’ by Toni Potenciano, February 17, 2023
(PRESS) TATLER: Artist Highlight: Wawi Navarroza by Gabriel Bohol, February 17, 2023
(PRESS) SPOT.PH: Looking Out Is Looking In and Returning to Self for Artist Wawi Navarroza by James Tana, February 13, 2023
(BOOK) “Tropical Reading: Photobook & Self-Publishing” ed. Fotobook Dummies Day, Taiwan, released April 2022
(PRESS) “Things We Lost in a Shipwreck” by Kong Yen Lin featuring the photography of Chow and Lin, Robert Zhao Renhui, Song Nian Ang, Miti Ruangkritya, Angki Purbandono, Wawi Navarroza and Shwe, Wuft Hmon, IMA Art Magazine, Tokyo, April 2022
Now on ARTSY: "Wawi Navarroza: Self Portraits & The Tropical Gothic". April 13 — May 6, 2022
(COLLAB) "Rare Earth" zine released at D21 in Leipzig, Germany in conjunction with the exhibition "Polar Opposites" by Keturah Cummings, Lucinda Dayhew, and Carol Anne McChrystal. February 3 — March 13, 2022.
(PRESS) "Fine art photographer Wawi Navarroza picks her favorites from the upcoming Leon auction" for the Asian Cultural Council Anniversary Benefit Auction. ANCX, March 3, 2022
(BOOK) "Sari-Sari Style: Tropical Excess and an Asian Sense of Brown in Wawi Navarroza’s Photographs" academic article by Emmanuel David, VERGE Journal: Studies in Global Asias, published by University of Minnesota Press, release Fall 2021
(PRESS) Aesthetica Magazine: Constructed Portraiture: Wawi Navarroza, March 2021
(PRESS) Tatler Philippines: 9 Must-Know Filipino Talents In The Arts And Culture Scene This 2021, Tatler Philippines, March 2021
(JURY) Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards 2021 "Sense of Self" . Open Call HERE . Deadline: April 30, 2021
RECENT
(US SOLO) Wawi Navarroza: The Other Shore a comprehensive solo exhibition of self-portraits marks the artist's US debut at Silverlens Gallery, New York, January 11 — March 2, 2024.
(SG) Chronic Compulsions: Selected Works from Art Addicts Anonymous at the Private Museum, Singapore, January 11 — March 24, 2024
(PH) Art Fair Philippines 2024: Wawi Navarroza presented by Silverlens and FotomotoPH, The Link, Ayala Center, Makati, February 16—18, 2024
(CN) Jimei x Arles "Archipelago: Paradise Revisit" curated by Gwen Lee at Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, China, December 15 — January 21, 2024
(SG) "New Tropics" Appetite, Singapore, November 28 — February 18, 2023
(PH) "Portrait of A Portrait Show" curated by Elaine Navas at Mo Space, November 25 — December 31, 2023
(ES) "Después de la niebla, primeras flores: Oriente y los orientalismos, del modernismo a la modernidad" Casa Vicens Gaudí, Barcelona, April 26, 2023—January 7, 202
(NL) Noorderlicht “Regenerate” at Pictura, Groningen, October 7 — December 10, 2023
(SG) “Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia” National Gallery of Singapore, December 2, 2022—August 20, 2023
(US) "Shrines" Silverlens New York, June 22—August 19, 2023
(PH) SOLO: Wawi Navarroza "As Wild As We Come", Silverlens Gallery, Manila, March 2—April 5, 2023. Download Catalogue HERE
(PH) "Special Exhibitions: Wawi Navarroza" at Art Fair Philippines 2023, The Link, Makati. February 17—19, 2023
(SG) S.E.A Focus "a world, anew", January 10-15, 2023. Presented by Silverlens
(PH) "The Hat of the Matter" at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (The M), BGC, Taguig, Manila. October 26 — November 30, 2022
(PH) "Hithertho VI: Notes on Impermanence" at Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon. October 15–November 15, 2022
(PH) "Collector's Plus" at Silverlens Gallery, Manila. October 6—22, 2022
(AU) “Our Grandfather Road: The (Gendered) Body and Place in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art” at 16 Albermarle Projects, Sydney, 20 August—22 October
(UK) SOLO: Wawi Navarroza "As Wild As We Come", Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London. August 19—September 17, 2022
(ES) “La risa de las flores”, Real Jardín Botánico, Invernadero de los Bonsáis, Madrid, June 11 — Sept 25, presented by Casa Asia
(SG) "a bird flies into the mirror" at Appetite, Singapore featuring Raena Abella, Poklong Anading, Annie Cabigting, Roberto Chabet, Nona Garcia, Wawi Navarroza. Presented by Appetite in collaboration with the Michelangelo and Lourdes Samson Collection. April 12 — August 27
(TR) Wawi Navarroza Talk at Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Library, İstanbul. May 17, 2022, 17:00h-19:00h
(PH) Art Fair Philippines 2022, presented by Silverlens Gallery
(AE) "Run With The Wolves" — an exhibition featuring five contemporary women artists — explores mythology, identity, gender and sexuality through figuration as the central motif. Ongoing at Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. November 30, 2021 — March 1, 2022
(UK) "Tonight the Air is Warm" feat. Southeast Asian Contemporary Photography, curated by Tolla Duke Sloane at Kristine Hjellegjerde Gallery (London Bridge). February 26—March 27, 2021.
(PH) "Searching Sanctuary" Silverlens Galleries. February 22—March 21, 2020.
(PH): "Not Visual Noise" Philippine contemporary photography curated by Angel Velasco Shaw at Ateneo Art Gallery. November 4, 2019 — March 29, 2020
(PH): "Self Portraits & The Tropical Gothic" solo exhibition at Silverlens Galleries, Manila. August 17—September 14, 2019 . Artist Talk on September 7
(SK): “Far Away But Strangely Familiar” contemporary art from the Philippines curated by Tony Godfrey at Danubiana Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia. July 6—September 8, 2019
(PH) "Everywhere There You Are", installation art by Ling Quisumbing Ramilo & Wawi Navarroza, Areté amphitheatre, Ateneo Art Gallery