DIGITAL RESIDENT
Maria Dumlao

august 2025

Working with combined media, including film, video, animation, sound, photography, fiber and installation, Maria Dumlao explores individual and collective history as mediated experience. She combines images drawn from history, folklore, landscapes, and mythologyto propose alternatives to the systemic representations ordered by colonial narratives. Born in the Philippines, Dumlao currently lives and works in Philadelphia. She earned a BA in Studio Art & Art History from Rutgers College and MFA in Studio Art at Hunter College-CUNY; has exhibited, screened and performed both nationally and internationally. Since 2019, Dumlao completed a commissioned art installation for Auckland Museum and Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center project in Aotearoa NZ, exhibited at Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Past Present Projects, TCNJ Art Gallery, Pearlstein Gallery (Drexel), Palmer Gallery (Vassar), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and Michener Art Museum. Dumlao is a recipient of 2022 Interlude Artist Residency, 2021 Velocity Fund, 2021 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Artist Residency, 2020 Leeway Transformation Award, and 2019 Independence Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship. Recent projects include an installation at the Philadelphia International Airport (2024).

Learn more about Maria’s work here.