Artist

SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2022 Our Way (in collaboration with Paolo Asuncion), Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA 2020 Wildflowers, Bloom!, Permanent public art-City of Berkeley, San Pablo Park, Berkeley, CA 2019 A Few Hours into the Future, Unicorn Centre for Art, Beijing, China 2018 Auspicious Clouds | Heavy Fog, Permanent public art-SFAC, Chinatown, San Francisco, CA 2018 Anting Anting | Magic Objects, Thacher Gallery at USF, San Francisco, CA 2017 False Falls: A Meditation on Truth, CCSF Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2016 A Scene from the Anthropocene, Linfield Gallery, McMinnville, OR 2015 ESPYLACOPA: a place, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA 2015 Recologica: A Nacireman Excavation, Recology Artist in Residency Program, San Francisco, CA 2015 Baby, Corps of Rediscovery, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA 2014 Baby (Medium for Intercultural Navigation), SFAC gallery window, San Francisco, CA 2014 Rerereading Arrangements, (in collaboration with Chris Brown) Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA 2013 Code-switching: Ya3ni, a conversation about things, Al Riwaq Art Space, Adliya, Bahrain 2012 Baby and the Nacirema, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA Montalvo Historical Fabrications and Souvenirs, (In collaboration with Stephanie Syjuco) Montalvo Art Center Project Space, Saratoga, CA 2010 Valencia Street Posts, Permanent public art commissionSFAC, San Francisco, CA 2010 omg, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA 2009 The Collaspe {sic}, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA 2009 Overlook, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI 2008 Misusefulness, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY 2008 FUTILITARIANISM, Nu’unanu Gallery at Marks Garage, Honolulu, HI 2008 Built for Life: Secret Deaths, B-So Space Gallery, CSU Chico, CA 2007 Homing Pidgin, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Daniell Cornell. 2006 Getting Mid-Evil, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 Cerca Series: Michael Arcega, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 2004 Divide and Concur, Lucky Tackle Gallery, Oakland, CA 2002 Plein Hair, Leefahsalung at The New Chinatown Barbershop, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Michael Arcega: Artist in Residence, de Young Art Center, San Francisco, CA 2000 Objects and Installations, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA (with Robert Gutierrez)