Norberto Roldan

Born in 1953 and based in Quezon City, Roldan deploys found objects and images, combining them into traditional local craft and text to make assemblages. As amalgams of personal belongings, collective memories, history and everyday life, Roldan’s pieces present an alternative angle to see the entangled and multi-layered socio-political conditions in his surroundings.
His recent participations in the exhibitions hosted by prominent institutions are No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, U.S.A (2012), Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia Since the 19th Century at National Gallery Singapore (2015), SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now at National Art Centre, Tokyo, in Japan (2017) and Passion and Procession: Art of the Philippines at Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia (2017).