NEWS
(PRESS) Vogue Philippines: Artist Spotlight Wawi Navarroza "Wild At Heart", March 2023
(PRESS) CNN Life Philippines: Wawi Navarroza's uses her body as her artistic medium by Yvette Fernandez, March 16, 2023
(PRESS) The Philippine Star Life: Wawi Navarroza and the unbearable strength of the female artist by Nicole Soriano, February 20, 2023
(PRESS) NOLISOLI: Wawi Navarroza on becoming a mother and artist: ‘As women, we can always come back to our power’ by Toni Potenciano, February 17, 2023
(BOOK) “Tropical Reading: Photobook & Self-Publishing” ed. Fotobook Dummies Day, Taiwan, released April 2022
(PRESS) “Things We Lost in a Shipwreck” by Kong Yen Lin featuring the photography of Chow and Lin, Robert Zhao Renhui, Song Nian Ang, Miti Ruangkritya, Angki Purbandono, Wawi Navarroza and Shwe, Wuft Hmon, IMA Art Magazine, Tokyo, April 2022
Now on ARTSY: "Wawi Navarroza: Self Portraits & The Tropical Gothic". April 13 — May 6, 2022
(COLLAB) "Rare Earth" zine released at D21 in Leipzig, Germany in conjunction with the exhibition "Polar Opposites" by Keturah Cummings, Lucinda Dayhew, and Carol Anne McChrystal. February 3 — March 13, 2022.
(PRESS) "Fine art photographer Wawi Navarroza picks her favorites from the upcoming Leon auction" for the Asian Cultural Council Anniversary Benefit Auction. ANCX, March 3, 2022
(BOOK) "Sari-Sari Style: Tropical Excess and an Asian Sense of Brown in Wawi Navarroza’s Photographs" academic article by Emmanuel David, VERGE Journal: Studies in Global Asias, published by University of Minnesota Press, release Fall 2021
(PRESS) Aesthetica Magazine: Constructed Portraiture: Wawi Navarroza, March 2021
(PRESS) Tatler Philippines: 9 Must-Know Filipino Talents In The Arts And Culture Scene This 2021, Tatler Philippines, March 2021
(JURY) Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards 2021 "Sense of Self" . Open Call HERE . Deadline: April 30, 2021
ONGOING
(PH) SOLO: Wawi Navarroza "As Wild As We Come", Silverlens Gallery, Manila, March 2—April 5, 2023. Download Catalogue HERE
(SG) “Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia” National Gallery of Singapore. December 2, 2022—August, 2023
UPCOMING
TALK: The Courtauld Research Forum “Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia”, May 5-6, 2023
(UK): Verse London
TALK (SG): National Gallery of Singapore, May 2023
BOOK: "Eye Mama" published by TeNeues, release May 2023
(US) Silverlens New York, June 22, 2023
(DE) “Where The Wild Roses Grow”, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery at Schlöss Görne, Germany, July 8, 2023
(NL) Noorderlicht “Regenerate”, Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Netherlands, August 26 — November 2023
AWARDS
(Ongoing) Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023, Nominee
ONLINE
(PH) The Philippine Star: Women's Month conference, March 2022
(INTL) Pandemic Popup Guest: Wawi Navarroza, IG Live, March 2021
(IN) Guftgu Talk Series: Wawi Navarroza: Book as Performance, June 11, 2020, hosted by Anshika Varma, Offset Projects, New Delhi
(UE) Guest: Wawi Navarroza hosted by Tasneem Alsultan, Saudi Arabia, IG Live, 2020
RECENT
(PH) "Special Exhibitions: Wawi Navarroza" at Art Fair Philippines 2023, The Link, Makati. February 17—19, 2023
(SG) S.E.A Focus "a world, anew", January 10-15, 2023. Presented by Silverlens
(PH) "The Hat of the Matter" at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (The M), BGC, Taguig, Manila. October 26 — November 30, 2022
(PH) "Hithertho VI: Notes on Impermanence" at Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Quezon. October 15–November 15, 2022
(PH) "Collector's Plus" at Silverlens Gallery, Manila. October 6—22, 2022
(AU) “Our Grandfather Road: The (Gendered) Body and Place in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art” at 16 Albermarle Projects, Sydney, 20 August—22 October
(UK) SOLO: Wawi Navarroza "As Wild As We Come", Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London. August 19—September 17, 2022
(ES) “La risa de las flores”, Real Jardín Botánico, Invernadero de los Bonsáis, Madrid, June 11 — Sept 25, presented by Casa Asia
(SG) "a bird flies into the mirror" at Appetite, Singapore featuring Raena Abella, Poklong Anading, Annie Cabigting, Roberto Chabet, Nona Garcia, Wawi Navarroza. Presented by Appetite in collaboration with the Michelangelo and Lourdes Samson Collection. April 12 — August 27
(TR) Wawi Navarroza Talk at Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Library, İstanbul. May 17, 2022, 17:00h-19:00h
(PH) Art Fair Philippines 2022, presented by Silverlens Gallery
(AE) "Run With The Wolves" — an exhibition featuring five contemporary women artists — explores mythology, identity, gender and sexuality through figuration as the central motif. Ongoing at Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. November 30, 2021 — March 1, 2022
(UK) "Tonight the Air is Warm" feat. Southeast Asian Contemporary Photography, curated by Tolla Duke Sloane at Kristine Hjellegjerde Gallery (London Bridge). February 26—March 27, 2021.
(PH) "Searching Sanctuary" Silverlens Galleries. February 22—March 21, 2020.
(PH): "Not Visual Noise" Philippine contemporary photography curated by Angel Velasco Shaw at Ateneo Art Gallery. November 4, 2019 — March 29, 2020
(PH): "Self Portraits & The Tropical Gothic" solo exhibition at Silverlens Galleries, Manila. August 17—September 14, 2019 . Artist Talk on September 7
(SK): “Far Away But Strangely Familiar” contemporary art from the Philippines curated by Tony Godfrey at Danubiana Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia. July 6—September 8, 2019
(PH) "Everywhere There You Are", installation art by Ling Quisumbing Ramilo & Wawi Navarroza, Areté amphitheatre, Ateneo Art Gallery