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Pio Abad. Profile photo from Art & Market
Pio Abad. Profile photo from Art & Market
Pio Abad, 'Every Tool is a Weapon if you hold it right XXI', 2015, unique acid dye print on hand stitched silk twill, 100 x 100 cm. Image from Art Basel
Pio Abad, 'Every Tool is a Weapon if you hold it right XXI', 2015, unique acid dye print on hand stitched silk twill, 100 x 100 cm. Image from Art Basel
Pio Abad, 'Untitled (Malakas)', 2017, screenprint, 35 x 45 cm. Image from Artsy
Pio Abad, 'Untitled (Malakas)', 2017, screenprint, 35 x 45 cm. Image from Artsy
Pio Abad, 'Notes on Decomposition (Lot No. 322)’, 2021, ink and gouache on paper, 59.7 x 42 cm. Image from Artsy
Pio Abad, 'Notes on Decomposition (Lot No. 322)’, 2021, ink and gouache on paper, 59.7 x 42 cm. Image from Artsy

Pio Abad

b. 1983, Manila, Philippines
Lives and works in London

Pio Abad’s work is concerned with the social and political signification of things. Deeply informed by the modern history of the Philippines, his work uses strategies of appropriation to mine alternative or repressed historical events, unravel official accounts and draw out threads of complicity between incidents, ideologies and people.

Biography information from www.pioabad.com, April 2022

Country: Philippines
Website: www.pioabad.com