Poklong Anading questions issues of identity and society through photography, video, sculptures and installations. He was invited to the Jakarta Biennale in 2009 and is awardee of the 12th Gawad CCP (Manila, Philippines) for Experimental Video in 2000 and of the Thirteen Artists Awards (Manila, Philippines) in 2006. He earned a BFA in painting from the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines (1999). He completed residencies with Big Sky Mind, Manila (2003–2004), and Common Room, Bandung, Indonesia (2008). Having begun as a painter, he now works primarily in video and photography. He also expanded into process-oriented sculpture and installation informed by Arte Povera, making work that appeals to all the senses. He often assumes the roles of observer and collector, turning facts and memories into images and objects, and frequently engages social issues. In 2006, he received the Ateneo Studio Residency Grant in Australia and a Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artists Award. Anading won the Ateneo Art Award in 2006 and 2008. Poklong Anading’s solo exhibitions include A Calm In The Middle Of The Storm, Art Fair Philippines 2020, Manila; Pass It On, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, Austria, 2020; Sidereal Message, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Japan, 2016. Selected exhibitions include Normal Scheduling Will Resume Shortly, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, 2019; Fracture / Fiction: Selections from the ILHAM Collection, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 2019; The Philippines Pavilion: Muhon: Traces Of An Adolescent City (Homecoming exhibition from Venice Architecture Biennale 2016-2018) Ateneo, Davao, Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.