Augustine Paredes
b. 1994, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines

Lives and works between Frankfurt and Dubai


Education

Fine Arts (Prof. Haegue Yang)
Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule
2023—Present

Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication
Ateneo de Davao University
2010 — 2014

Grants & Awards

Vordemberge-Gildewart Stipendium
AIR Offenbach
SEAF Scholarship
Art Jameel Research and Practice Platform

Residencies & Fellowships

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea,  Goyang Residency (2024)
Royal Commission of AlUla: AlUla Artist Residency (2022)
Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship Cohort 8 (2021)
Warehouse 421 x Gulf Photo Plus (2020)
Campus Art Dubai 7.0 (2019)
International Summer School of Photography (2018)

Professional Experience

Staedelschule Archive
Photographer
2023 - Present

Seeing Things Photographic Studio (UAE)
Art Director & Photographer
2019 - Present 

Friendly Fires Small Press
Independent Publisher
2021 - Present

Sa Tahanan Co. (UAE)
Co-founder
2020 - Present

Coffee Communications (UAE)
Art Director
2017 - 2019


Solo Exhibitions

2025
Grace
Paulina Caspari, Munich, Germany

Amalgamation of Tenderness
Liste Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

2024
Artist's Room: Augustine Paredes
Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE

2023
Yearning The Sun to Fall
Fffriedrich, Frankfurt, Germany

Light, Leaks
Foundry, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2022
Paradise4Ever
Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2016
How Strangers Meet
Today X Future, Quezon City, Philippines

2015
We Are Water
Abreeza, Davao City, Philippines

2012
Edge of Seventeen
Lion’s, Davao City, Philippines

Commissioned Projects

2025
Sa Ating Pag-tahan / In Our Stillness (Sharjah Biennale)

2024
Lamentations (Jameel Arts Centre)
Ang Pagluto sa Linamnam ng Alaala (Diriyah Biennale)
Lecture Performance: When The Typhoon Ends (Diriyah Biennale)
Feast from The Migrant Body (Art Dubai)

2023
The Bitter Taste of Sweetness (Royal Commission of AlUla)

2022
Hold Me Through This Hold Me (Sole DXB)
Between Many Bodies (Art Dubai)
Verses in Reverse (Alserkal Arts Foundation)

2021
A Poem, A Garden (Alserkal Arts Foundation)
Goodnight, Sweet Dreams (Warehouse 421)

2020
Slouching Through Bedspaces (Goethe Institut)

Select Group Exhibitions

2025

Vordemberge-Gildewart Scholarship 4.0, Museum Weisbaden, DE
New Beginnings, Philippine Photography, Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt, DE
Traces, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery Kyobashi, Tokyo, JP
House Tension, Alte Schmelze, Frankfurt, DE
Paperscapes, HKBU, HK

2024
Open Studios, MMCA Goyang Residency, Seoul, KR
Soft Proof, RAY Triennale of Photography, Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt, DE

2023
Tea Room Relay: Pit Stop, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
Editions, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE
Hemispheres, Tarzeer Pictures, Manila, PH
Object Orientations, Gravity Art Space, Manila, PH
Palimpsest of Time, Royal Commission of AlUla, SA

2022
The Bitter Taste of Sweetness, Royal Commission of AlUla, SA

2021
Goethe Institut: Love Labor, Leisure, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
Between the Sky and the Earth, Middle East Institute, Washington DC, USA
As We Gaze Upon Her, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Made In The Emirates?, Sotheby‘s DIFC, Dubai, UAE
Slouching Through Bedspaces, Goethe Institut, Dubai, UAE

2020
Mina Zayed: Reflections on Past Futures, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Sa Tahanan Co. Exhibit No. 1, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE

2019
Record Record: Long Night Stands With Lonely, Lonely Boys, Tarzeer Pictures, Manila, PH
Cooking Adobo in the Heart of Dubai, Art Dubai, UAE
No Place Like Home, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE

2017
Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine, AU

2016
On Growing, Abreeza Ayala Mall, Davao City, PH
Open Studio, Open Wall Thousandfold, Taguig, PH

Using Format