
Co-curators of Alternating Currents: Contemporary Art After March 2011 presented at PICA with the Japan Foundation. From left Jaime Pacena II, Azusa Hashimoto and Leigh Robb. Photo by: Yamashiro Daisuke from Nadegata Instant Party .
Jaime Pacena II is a graduate of Fine Arts majoring in advertising arts at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines (2001). He has taken Masters courses at the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines-Diliman (2003). He is a multimedia artist and a young independent curator who is currently teaching at Asia Pacific College-School of Multimedia Arts. He is a core member of Tutok Artist Collective who advocates on Human Rights Violation and Education and was a grantee of the Jenesys Programme for Curators of the Japan Foundation in 2010 and recently participated as a Philippine delegate in the Travel Study Tour and Symposiums of Asahi Art Festival Worldwide Network in Japan last August. He is active as a freelance graphic art designer and as a video director. He is currently finishing a solo visual art project in Blanc Compound in Mandaluyong this November and is also developing a community based project called Bliss Market in Manila.
Leigh Robb has been the PICA Curator since September 2009. She completed her BA in Art History and Psychology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane (1999), where she also worked at the Queensland Art Gallery on a number of Asian Pacific Triennials of Contemporary Art. Leigh ran the Education and Internship program at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice (2000-2004) and also worked at the American, Canadian and Australian Pavilions at the Venice Biennial. Leigh completed her Masters in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2005) specialising in postmodern theory and conceptual art from the 1960's. She worked as Associate Director of Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2005-2009). Recent curated exhibitions at PICA include solo shows of Jeppe Hein (Denmark); Bevan Honey (WA); John Gerrard (Ireland) and international group show Love of Diagrams, Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata-Dupont: STADIUM (WA), Alex Spremberg: Wrong Angles (WA).
