Silverlens Galleries

Silverlens Galleries Manila | New York Silverlens is an international gallery with locations in both Manila and New York.

Through its artist representation, institutional partnerships, art consultancy, and exhibition programming including art fairs and gallery collaborations, Silverlens aims to place its artists within the broader framework of the contemporary art dialogue. Its continuing efforts to transcend borders across art communities in Asia have earned it recognition as one of the leading contemporary art gall

eries in Southeast Asia. Silverlens was founded in Manila by Isa Lorenzo in 2004, and in 2007 she was joined by co-director Rachel Rillo. In September 2022, the gallery opened its doors in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, broadening its international scope and bringing its diverse roster of artists to a new global audience.

SAN FRANCISCO: The SFAC presents Dream Jungle, a group exhibition featuring the seminal work of the late Carlos Villa (1...
22/04/2026

SAN FRANCISCO: The SFAC presents Dream Jungle, a group exhibition featuring the seminal work of the late Carlos Villa (1936–2013).

Taking its title from Jessica Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition interrogates the “imagined tropics” and the complexities of imperial representation. Villa’s practice, rooted in decolonial aesthetics and spiritual resurgence, serves as a ceremonial anchor for the show. His inclusion highlights a career dedicated to recuperating Filipino art history through feathered capes, body imprints, and ritualistic performances that bridge indigenous Pacific traditions with contemporary resistance.

DREAM JUNGLE
📍 SFAC Main Gallery 401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 126
29 January – 2 May 2026

📸 Installation images courtesy of the San Francisco Arts Commission

RIYADH: The Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026 presents In Interludes and Transitions, featuring the works of Pacita...
22/04/2026

RIYADH: The Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026 presents In Interludes and Transitions, featuring the works of Pacita Abad () and Pio Abad () .

Set within the industrial architecture of the JAX District, this third edition of the Biennale explores the concept of “processions”—the movements, migrations, and nomadic rhythms that connect the Gulf region with the global stage. The exhibition brings together the vibrant, textile-rich legacies of the late Pacita Abad alongside the research-driven practice of Pio Abad, creating a cross-generational dialogue on memory, displacement, and the cultural histories that persist through materials.

IN INTERLUDES AND TRANSITIONS
📍 JAX District, Diriyah
30 January – 2 May 2026

📸 Pacita Abad installation views courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, photo by Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto, Marco Cappelletti Studio. Pio Abad installation views courtesy of the artist.

Join us in sending birthday cheers to !Pow Martinez (b. 1983, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in Manila) is a Filip...
22/04/2026

Join us in sending birthday cheers to !

Pow Martinez (b. 1983, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in Manila) is a Filipino artist known for his expressionistic style of painting, blending bold colors with demonic, mutant-like characters to create compelling canvases. Often resembling a beautiful nightmare, Martinez combines the mundanities of everyday life with elements of pop culture, resulting in darkly humorous works depicting society’s overconsumption.

🔗 Learn more about Pow Martinez via the link in bio.

 

MANILA: Jenifer K Wofford explores the colonial history and fluid abstraction of the basketball court in the group exhib...
21/04/2026

MANILA: Jenifer K Wofford explores the colonial history and fluid abstraction of the basketball court in the group exhibition PLAY, on view through 16 May.

Arjun Appadurai writes of imagination as a key aspect of social life that works to shape spatial realities and sensibilities, the potency of which even impels and compels collective movements, dissent, and transnational migration, as well as other ways of seeing, dwelling, and place-making. He imagines the world as a world of flows— referring to the movement of things, ideas, and people across the globe— and terms these flows as ‘scapes,’ interestingly evoking the notion of place. 

Following this lens, we might conceive of place-making as the work of imagination and a combination of these flows—  rendering place not as a static space, but one that is dynamically constructed, perhaps even a site of play.

Words by Pie Tiausas

🔗 Learn more about the exhibition via the link in bio.

KUALA LUMPUR: The National Art Gallery of Malaysia presents Recent Acquisitions: A Decade of the National Collection (20...
21/04/2026

KUALA LUMPUR: The National Art Gallery of Malaysia presents Recent Acquisitions: A Decade of the National Collection (2015-2025), featuring pivotal works by Yee I-Lann ().

This comprehensive exhibition celebrates the evolution of Malaysia’s visual heritage, highlighting I-Lann’s Tanahairku #02 and pieces from her seminal Like the Banana Tree at the Gate series. Through her signature use of digital collage and historical motifs, I-Lann interrogates the intersections of power, folklore, and the post-colonial landscape, cementing her role as a vital voice in the nation’s contemporary narrative.

RECENT ACQUISITIONS: A DECADE OF THE NATIONAL COLLECTION (2015-2025)
📍 National Art Gallery of Malaysia (Balai Seni Negara)
1 February 2026 – 31 December 2027

Jordan Clarkson hits the streets for , moving from Midtown to Little Manila, tapping into his go-to spots and personal f...
17/04/2026

Jordan Clarkson hits the streets for , moving from Midtown to Little Manila, tapping into his go-to spots and personal favorites, with a stop at Silverlens New York along the way.

The energy folds back into Silverlens Manila, where Jenifer K Wofford, Jake Verzosa, and Aze Ong turn the basketball court into a site for unpacking postcolonial identity and redefining what home can hold.

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16/04/2026

Watch Jake Verzosa as he reflects on Basketball Landscapes, presented in a group exhibition at Silverlens, Manila.

Framing the basketball court as both document and subject, he constructs place as a site gathered from the collective sentiments, sensibilities, and the everyday life of a people. Verzosa’s series alludes to basketball as an enduring American colonial influence which, today, has become deeply and ubiquitously threaded into the fabric of our material and social realities. The site of play thus becomes evocative of both spectacle and material conditions. Archives tend to have a monumentalizing capacity for the things they capture, but Verzosa’s photographs seem to defy their own stillness and symmetry.

Words by Pie Tiausas

🔗 Learn more about the exhibition via the link in bio.

PLAY is on view through 16 May.

MANILA: Is Jumalon’s Topography of Seeing opens today.In this new series of works, Jumalon paints an interface and an in...
11/04/2026

MANILA: Is Jumalon’s Topography of Seeing opens today.

In this new series of works, Jumalon paints an interface and an inheritance—a way of looking at the world that prioritizes curiosity and welcomes disruption. A world that inhales and exhales as you do. A form is never just one thing, these paintings suggest, but a series of possibilities which both structure and accident conspire to make real. Linger with these pieces and stay with the feelings that they evoke, and soon enough they begin to behave like an entity of sorts. Within these resonances, Jumalon’s paintings exist as their own topography of perceptions and projections, drawing us deeper into the mysteries that reside within and beyond them.

Words by Sean Carballo

🔗 Learn more about the exhibition via the link in bio.

 

MANILA: PLAY opens today.A group exhibition featuring works by Jenifer K Wofford, Jake Verzosa, and Aze Ong, with a rece...
11/04/2026

MANILA: PLAY opens today.

A group exhibition featuring works by Jenifer K Wofford, Jake Verzosa, and Aze Ong, with a reception from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

If a place gathers, what or who is it that gathers to culminate it? And is a place simply what people make of it?

In this exhibition, three artists probe collective notions of place and place-making as a postcolonial spatial reality. Doubly evoked through the ubiquitous spatiality of the basketball court, play becomes salient to the postcolonial imagination. 

Words by Pie Tiausas

🔗 Learn more about the exhibition via the link in bio.

     

MANILA: Is Jumalon’s Topography of Seeing opens at Silverlens Manila on 11 April and runs through 16 May 2026. An openin...
10/04/2026

MANILA: Is Jumalon’s Topography of Seeing opens at Silverlens Manila on 11 April and runs through 16 May 2026. An opening reception will be held this Saturday, from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.

What hides in plain sight, submerged beneath these ambiguous forms, are the narratives that make up a place, and in Jumalon’s case, these are the rock formations from the Mount Pulong Bato monoliths in Zamboanga where she grew up. Hearing narratives from her parents about the rice fields, mounds of soil, and blades of grass imbued the place with a sense of mystery, danger even, that persists in the visceral hues and collagistic meldings of these paintings. 

In this new series of works, Jumalon paints an inheritance—a way of looking at the world that prioritizes curiosity and welcomes disruption. A form is never just one thing, these paintings suggest, but a series of possibilities which structure and accident conspire to make real. Linger with these pieces and stay with the feelings that they evoke, and soon enough they begin to behave like an entity of sorts. Within these resonances, Jumalon’s paintings exist as their own topography of perceptions and projections, drawing us deeper into the mysteries that reside within and beyond them.  

Words by Sean Carballo

🔗 Learn more about the exhibition via the link in bio.

 

10/04/2026

MANILA: Opening tomorrow at Silverlens, PLAY presents a dialogue between the works of Jenifer K Wofford, Jake Verzosa, and Aze Ong.

A reception for the artists will be held from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.

The works of Aze Ong bring a tangible materiality to the postcolonial notions of place and place-making that Verzosa’s and Wofford’s works lay out. As Verzosa’s photographs capture the all-too-familiar spatiality of the basketball court, Ong’s meticulously crafted fiber sculptures become both testament to and metaphor of how the site has become deeply threaded into the ways we dwell and the ways we gather. So deeply embedded are these threads into the fabric of everyday life that play, as gleaned in this site, becomes no longer merely about how we resourcefully make do for the sake of survival, nor is it merely a collective space for recreation and gathering.

Words by Pie Tiausas

🔗 Learn more about the exhibition via the link in bio.

Please be advised: Silverlens Manila is closed today, Thursday, 9 April, in honor of Day of Valor and the heroes who pav...
08/04/2026

Please be advised: Silverlens Manila is closed today, Thursday, 9 April, in honor of Day of Valor and the heroes who paved the way for our contemporary voices.

We look forward to welcoming you back for our new exhibitions on Saturday, 11 April.

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