United States, 1974
Lexygius Sanchez Calip is a Filipino-American artist who queries the weight of Gesture, through intuitive, interdisciplinary, and conceptually driven works in the field(s) of: site-specific installations and interventions, video, sound, text, performance, and new media applications, among others. The narrative and poetic aesthetic of his works highlight dialogical perspectives on the natural, the temporal, and the existential circumstances humans endure as temperamental creatures.
His works has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including: the Nakanojo Biennale at the Gunma Prefecture in Nakanojo, Japan; the DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA; the Museum of Northern California Art in Chico, CA; SOMArts in San Francisco, CA; the Tempio di Pomona in Salerno, Italy; the Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca (ACIT) in Venice, Italy; The Line Contemporary Art Space in London, UK; UAMO Festival in Munich, Germany; the EWNS Art Projects in Paris, France; the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, the Jorge P. Vargas Museum, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila, PH, among others.
Calip is a recipient of the Anne Bremer Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts endowed by the San Francisco Art Institute (2020); an Artist In Residence and Graduate Fellow Award endowed by the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA (2022-23); a Murphy Cadogan Awardee at SOMArts endowed by the Murphy Cadogan Foundation in San Francisco, CA (2019); and an Artist In Residence and Freeman Foundation Fellow endowed by the Freeman Foundation for the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT (2005); among other merits.
He received his MFA in Studio Art, and MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art, from the San Francisco Art Institute; and currently pursues a Doctorate degree in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) in Portland, Maine. He lives and works in San Francisco, California.