Neill Catangay
DVAA 2023 Michelle Angela Ortiz Fellow
About Neill:
Neill Catangay (b. 1993) is a Filipino interdisciplinary artist born and raised on Guam. Catangay received his BA at the University of Guam and his MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Catangay embraces his cultural identity and upbringing to create work that examines decolonialization as a form of care. With his multimedia practice, Catangay’s work investigates his own awareness of care, it’s meaning, and how reclaiming oneself can be crucial to understanding systems of control, productivity, and place. Through visual interpretation of research and awareness his work speculates progressive solutions for individual and collective futures.
About Michelle Angela Ortiz Fellowship:
This fellowship provides an opportunity for an artist/curator exploring international identities and personal narratives to curate a show in the Da Vinci Art Alliance gallery space. Artists in this fellowship track are challenged to push their exhibitions beyond white box gallery spaces, engaging with local communities to examine, explore and challenge Euro-centric narratives to bring us closer together while uplifting artists of color. The Michelle Angela Ortiz Fellow will work alongside DVAA's Exhibitions and Programming Director to oversee, advise, and install the exhibition.
Named for Michelle Angela Ortiz and her 20 years of work using her art to represent people and communities whose histories are often lost or co-opted. This fellowship track is for a Philadelphia based, emerging artist/curator to develop an exhibition that explores and challenges who is in charge of the narrative and why?