Geronimo Cristobal

Bibliography

Journals

“Desde el Cielo: Real Photo Postcards and the Counter-Archive of Alfonso Ongpin”. Art History. (accepted, issue TBA) https://doi.org/10.1093/arthis/ulaf050

“Intellectual and Social Currents in the Establishment of the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura (1821-1834)”. Sojourn. (accepted, issue TBA)

“Irineo Miranda’s Ethnographic Portrait of Nina Rasul and the Philippine Bangsamoro”. Philippine Studies 73, no. 1, 3-43. muse.jhu.edu/article/960260

 “The Intramuros of Anak Dalita, the Looban of Manila Noir”. Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 36, no. 3 (2021): 387-416.  muse.jhu.edu/article/845157.

“The Sentimental Masks of Marcos and Robredo”. Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 44(3), 411-420.  www.muse.jhu.edu/article/879196.

“Pushing against the roof of the world: ruangrupa’s prospects for Documenta 15,” Third Text Online. October 26, 2020. thirdtext.org/cristobal-ruangrupa

Books

Paintings After Compositions

The book catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition Paintings after Compositions/ Compositions after Paintings at the University of Santo Tomas Museum, Manila, 18 May 2017. Authored by Geronimo Cristobal designed by Yani Tiangco and Monique Ampil

Paperback, Large Print , 20 pages
Published August 2017 by CSCVA Publications
Original Title Gemälde nach Kompositionen
ISBN13 9789719528517

Collected Encounters

The essays revolve around a collection of works made by artists Chema Alvargonzales, Gino Bueza, Frankie Callaghan, Francis Commeyne, Jerwin Collado, Maria Cruz, Marina Cruz Garcia, Lizza May David, Phillip Hohenwarter, Oswaldo Ruiz, Gerardo Tan, Rodel Tapaya and Kim Westerström. Translated into German by Indira Aguilera Kohl. Book design by David Cano Leal

Paperback, Large print, 175 pages
Published by CSCVA Publications (Berlin) (first published November 1st 2011)
Original Title Begegnungen Gesammelte Aufsätze in der Kunst
ISBN13 9789719528500

Bauhaus in the Boondocks
(MFA Thesis print-out)

Constancio Bernardo is an enigmatic figure in Philippine art. Educated partly in the US, where he was mentored by Josef Albers in the 1950s, he painted in an abstract mode when his contemporaries in post-war Manila painted in the idyllic representational style favored by exiting U.S. colonial personnel in the Philippines. In 1978, however, he shunned abstraction when it became the institutional aesthetic of the Marcos regime, and self-isolated from the Manila art scene. But his aesthetic choices continued to bear Albers’s utopianist influence. This paper examines Bernardo’s life and art, and the Albers-Bernardo encounter, as a story of modernism in the boondocks. The post-war colloquialism “boondocks” speaks to the transnational connections that both support and refract the international spread of modernism. It is the discursive milieu in which Albers and Bernardo’s encounter took place.

MFA Thesis print-out hard-bound, 125 pages
(first printed May 2020)
ISBN13 9781667159119

Catalogs

Deities by Rodel Tapaya (Paperback)

Catalogs

  1. Tuklaw ng Makamandag (The Viper Sting) in Rodel Tapaya’s Mapapel. Drawing Room Gallery, Manila, Philippines. 2007. Catalog.
  2. Between Gods and Men: Rodel Tapaya’s Visions of Lore. Berlin-Germany: Galerie Caprice-Horn. 2011. Catalog.
  3. Kalipunan, White Cube Gallery, Metropolitan Museum Manila, 2010.
  4. A Stitch in time in Inside-Out by Marina Cruz. BenCab Museum, May 2012.
  5. Zones of Displacement, Jason Tecson and Thaer Maarouf, Sana Gallery Singapore, 2015.
  6. Jason Tecson, Densities of Time, Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2015.

Book Reviews

1. “Book Review of Enigmatic Objects: Notes towards a History of the Museum in the Philippines by Resil Mojares,” Southeast Asian Studies 14, no. 1 (April 25, 2025).
2. “Book Review of Unmaking Botany Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines by Kathleen Cruz Guttierez” Southeast Asian Studies 15, no. 2 (August 25, 2026).

Other writings

  1. “These fragments I have shored against my ruin: The counter-archive of Teodulo Protomartir” Broadcast: Pioneer Works. August 24, 2021.
  2. “Perpetual Motion,” Broadcast: Pioneer Works. June 25, 2021.
  3. “Hospital Ministry under coronavirus lockdown,” Coronasur, Asia Research Institute, NUS, June 2020.
  4. “Dog cage quarantine,” Degree Critical. May 2020.
  5. “Joseph Tecson at Art Underground.” The Philippine Star, June 12, 2017.
  6. “Rodel Tapaya: The Ladder to Somewhere.” Wall Street Journal International. April 2013.
  7. “Borlonganesque: Elmer Borlongan’s Extraordinary Eye for the Ordinary,” (2018). Review
  8. “UNICEF-Art for Life,” Manila Bulletin- Arts and Culture, 28 July 2008 p F-6.
  9. “Beautiful Sins Reveal Art Asia Gallery’s New Face,” Manila Bulletin- Arts and Culture, 27 March 2008 p. F-7.
  10. “A Shin for Sculpture,” Manila Bulletin- Arts and Culture, 7 January 2008, p. F-7
  11. “Correspondence with the Unconscious,” Manila Bulletin- Arts and Culture, 15 December 2007 p. F-7.

Interviews

  1. Gatty Rewind. “Episode 114: Thongchai Winichakul, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.“ Gatty Rewind: Southeast Asian Studies at Cornell (podcast), February 29, 2024.
  2. Gatty Rewind. “Episode 96: Vicente Rafael, Department of History, University of Washington.“ Gatty Rewind: Southeast Asian Studies at Cornell (podcast), April 27, 2023.
  3. “Rodel Tapaya: A Painter’s Life [interview].” Planting Rice. June 2010

Translations

  1. Tapaya, Rodel. Bayan ng Ginhaw: Factory of Masks. Bulacan: IsTorya Studios. 2022

Digital Humanities

  1. Philippine items at the Cornell Anthropology Collections. Mapping Philippine Material Culture, 2024. https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/collections/show/466.
  2. Counter-Archive. Omeka + Curatescape, 2023. https://counterarchive.net.
  3. Gleaning from the Archives of the Pensionado Story. Scalar Book, 2022. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/gleaning-from-the-archives-of-the-pensionado-story/index.
  4. Counter Archives: The photographic album of Alfonso T. Ongpin. Scalar Book, 2021. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/desdecielo/index.

Selected press clippings (about Geronimo Cristobal)

Philippine Daily Inquirer—Lifestyle: Arts and Books, July 13, 2010.
Un periódico que presenta una exhibición de arte en 371 Art Space, destacando a jóvenes artistas como Francis Bejar, Geronimo Cristobal y Chalk Zaldivar.
Preview of the inaugural show at 371 Art Space, featuring artworks by young Filipino artists.
  1. Campomanes, Oscar. Lost Dragonfly: Tradition and Translation Between Cultures and Art Forms. Philippine Daily Inquirer—Lifestyle: Arts and Books, July 13, 2010.
  2. _____. “Silently Screaming.” Manila Times—Life and Times, November 21, 2009.
  3. _____. “The College Guys.” Contemporary Art Philippines, November 2012.
  4. _____. “Four Artists Open 371 Art Space.” Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 3, 2011.
  5. _____. Malaya Business Insight—Arts, November 11, 2011.
  6. Arcilla, Camille. “Young Contemporary Artists as Dirty, Poorly, Dressed.” Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 30, 2013.
  7. Babiera, Lester. “Filipino Artists, Galleries Showcased in Singapore.” Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 26, 2015.
  8. _____. “Geronimo Cristobal: Demolition Man.” Culture Top Ten: Town & Country, May 2015.
  9. Recital Pits Music Versus Visual Arts.” Philippine Daily Inquirer—Arts and Books, May 16, 2017.
  10. “Kim Nimrod Cruz and Geronimo Cristobal at University of Santo Tomas Museum.” Rappler, May 16, 2017.
  11. Geronimo Cristobal’s ‘Vestigium Scriptorium’ at Gateway Gallery.” Tempo, January 24, 2018.
  12. Massabuau, Dini Kusmana. “Eternal, Seni Tiga Pelukis Bandung.” Surat Dunia, December 21, 2020.