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Gericault De La Rose MFA ‘23
Email: gdelarose1@berkeley.edu
Gericault De La Rose is a queer Filipinx, multidisciplinary artist, and educator. Through her work, she uses her brown body as an amulet against the plague of forgetting within a postcolonial world that reinforces collective amnesia.Through performance, video, sculpture, and fibers work, she attempts to challenge the objective truth proposed by ethnographic anthropology, process the cultural exchange between the Philippines and its colonizers, and demystify the heritages claimed by nationalism. By exploring how her culture is consumed, digested, and regurgitated, she begins to unpack the oppressive constructs implanted within her country and people.
During her time in college, she had the opportunity to work as a Co-curator of Philippine Objects at the Field Museum of Natural History where she organized a series of monthly events called Pamanang Pinoy using the objects within the collection as conduits for community discussion. After graduating with a BFA with an emphasis in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she formed an artist collective, Export Quality, together with other Queer Filipinx alumni. As an emerging artist, De La Rose has had the opportunity to showcase her work in group shows in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Johnson City, New York, and Toronto. In collaboration with AFIRE Chicago, Export Quality was awarded the Crossroads Youth Fund for Cultural Change to support their documentary series Nakikita. De La Rose attended the ACRE residency in Steuben, Wisconsin having received the Brenda Green Gender Inclusivity Scholarship in 2018 and the HATCH artist resident for the Chicago Artist Coalition in 2020. De La Rose is currently an MFA candidate at UC Berkeley.