Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Sculpture, installation, social practice
Website: arcega.us
Michael Arcega (Wikipedia; b. 1973, Manila, Philippines) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. He migrated with his family to Los Angeles at age ten, then relocated to San Francisco for college. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from Stanford University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art at San Francisco State University, where he leads the Sculpture and Expanded Practice area in the School of Art. He serves on the curatorial boards of Root Division Gallery and the Recology Artist in Residence Program.
Arcega’s work is grounded in language, history, and geography. He uses object-metaphors — sculptures and installations that often take the form of everyday or familiar objects — to critique unbalanced power relations, colonialism, and the cultural meanings embedded in food, architecture, and material culture. His approach has been described as a fusion of meticulous craftsmanship, politically barbed punning, and conceptual rigor.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco); Asian Art Museum (San Francisco); de Young Museum (San Francisco); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Orange County Museum of Art; The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu); Museum of Fine Arts (Houston); Cue Arts Foundation; Asia Society (New York); Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)
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