b. San Francisco, CA. Lives and works in San Francisco. Preferred pronouns: they/them/theirs/siya Email: erinacalejo@gmail.com
EDUCATION  2023 Executive Program in Social Impact Strategy, National Arts Strategies and School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania 2015 University of California, San Diego. BFA Visual Arts Media Honors, BA Human Development Program, African Studies Minor. 2013 University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana. Study Abroad and Field Research.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Socially Engaged Art, Urban Studies, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Grantmaking.
AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS 2023 Visual Arts Artist in Residence (2023-2026), Lucas Artists Residency Program, Montalvo Arts Center 2022 Alternative Exposure Grant Round 16, Southern Exposure Artist in Residence with Related Tactics, Lucas Artists Residency Program, Montalvo Arts Center Artist in Residence, This Will Take Time San Francisco Artist Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission 2021 Virtual Cohort-based Residency, School of Embodied Praxis Featured Visual Artist, APAture: Embrace, Kearny Street Workshop Recipient, Quick Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation Scholarship Recipient, Executive Program in Arts and Culture Strategy, National Arts Strategies Kapwa in Excelsior Grantee, Balay Kreative 2020 Nominated Applicant, The Rainin Fellowship, United States Artists Inaugural Grantee, Balay Kreative Sponsorship Grant, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center 2019 Individual Artist Commission, San Francisco Arts Commission Artists and Communities in Partnership - Creative Youth, San Francisco Arts Commission Fellow, National Asian American Peer Coaching Circle Fellow, Emerging Arts Professionals San Francisco/Bay Area 2018 Fellow, Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice 2017 Recipient, Quick Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation SoMapagmahal, Sponsorship Grant, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center 2016 SoMapagmahal, Alternative Exposure Round 10 Grant Recipient, Southern Exposure Bridges Fellow, Bay Area Video Coalition Emerging Curator Fellow, Asian American Women Artist Association 2015 Community Impact Award, UCSD Human Development Program Outstanding Undergraduate Video, UCSD African and African-American Studies Research Center Imagination Undergraduate Research Grant, Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination 2014 Researcher, UC Scholars Summer Research Program, UCSD Academic Enrichment Program Alumni Leadership Scholarship Recipient, Brutten Family, UCSD 2013 Gilman Scholar, Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program Russell Grant for RERUN, UCSD Department of Visual Arts
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS 2024 “Where is Your Body”, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA 2023 “Naming Our Time”, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA “MUNI Raised Me”, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA 2022 “Photography & Tenderness” Wave Pool, Cincinnati, OH 2021 “A Hxstory of Renting”, Featured Artist, APAture: Embrace, Kearny Street Workshop San Francisco, CA. “My Ancestors Followed Me Here”, kalayaan (till every grass blade is afire from every other), Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA. “My Ancestors Followed Me Here” (film), Koret Education Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “My Ancestors Followed Me Here,” Bay Area Walls, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (curator: Linde B. Lehtinen and Sally Katz). “We Smell Like Sunshine! / Amoy Tayong Araw!” United States of Asian America Festival, API Cultural Center (with Jai Severson & Solidarity Cypher, and K-Pop Up SF) “We Smell Like Sunshine! / Amoy Tayong Araw!” Sowing Agency, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA (with SOMCAN SF) “A Hxstory of Renting”, Kapwa in Excelsior, Make it Mariko and Balay Kreative 2020 “Timing,” Beauty in the Struggle, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2019 “Perez Family’s Terminated Tenancy,” Balay Kreative Launch, Alloy Collective, San Francisco, CA “Frisco Luv,” Whose Streets Our Streets, Evolved SF, San Francisco, CA “Untitled (grief is a weightless thing),” APAture: Declare, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA 2018 “Devotional Love,” Urban X Indigenous IV showcase, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA “Departures,” Dear Mother, Asian American Women Artist Association, San Pablo Gallery, San Pablo, CA 2016 “Salamat / Thank You,” Real Feels and Rollercoasters, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Byen Pre Pa Lakay screening, APAture HERE: Film Showcase, presented by Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco Public Library Koret Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 2015 “Famni,” ROUND but SQUARE, University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA “Wake Up: Black Lives Matter”screening, UC San Diego African and African-American Studies Research Center Banquet, San Diego, CA “Gran Se's House”screening,ROUND but SQUARE, University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA 2014 “Through the Eyes of Yunes”screening, Ethnographic Film Festival, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA 2013 “Brown Complex” and “Kinalooblooban” screening, Tikim: New Works in Filipino/American Video, Calit2 Theater, San Diego, CA “Beauty is Skin Deep” screening, Sixth CollegeDigital Film Festival, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA
CURATORIAL WORK AND PROGRAMMING 2023 Curatorial Council Member, Bay Area Now 9, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Under the Same Sun, (with Candace Huey, PJ Policarpio, and Sara Wessen Chang), Edge on the Square, San Francisco, CA 2017-23 SoMapagmahal Photography Mxntorship Program, South of Market, San Francisco, CA 2019 Brown in the Sunshine, Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, CA Agrarianaa (with Diana Li, Michelle Lee), SOMArts, San Francisco, CA 2018 </3 (with Appendix Collective), SF LGBT Center, San Francisco, CA 2016 Appendix (with Diana Li), Pacific Heritage Museum, San Francisco, CA 2015 Charted Territory (with Alexis Hithe), UC San Diego FIELD, San Diego, CA Ipaalam(with VIS198 cohort), Adam Kamil Gallery, San Diego, CA Hauntings (with Jayne Manuel, Elaine Raif), Adam Kamil Gallery, San Diego, CA New Topics (with VIS164 cohort), Adam Kamil Gallery, San Diego, CA You, Me, Rae and Someone Else (with Dorothy Lee, et al.), Adam Kamil Gallery, San Diego, CA 2014 Umbilical (with Diana Li, Jayne Manuel), Adam Kamil Gallery, UCSD. San Diego, CA 2013 RERUN (with Diana Li, Ren Ebel, Tanner Cook), Adam Kamil Gallery, UCSD. San Diego, CA “I Appreciate You // We Grow Together,” We'd Love Your Company performance, University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
PUBLICATIONS 2024 “Maalalahanin”, CTRL+Pdf Journal of Contemporary Art. 2022 “B-Roll Madyik: After School Hours and SoMapagmahal Youth Organizing”. Pin[a/x]yist Anthology. Solomon Amorao and Custodio Tan, (Eds.). 2020 A Hxstory of Renting. Co-produced by Lian Ladia and Jerlyn Jareunpoon, with David Woo, Janet Delaney, and Jerome Reyes as contributing writers. “Ang Paghihilot Ni Lola Marina.” Babae(x). {m}aganda Magazine, Alvarado, J., & Co, J. (Eds.). 2019 Alejo, E. & SOMCAN (Eds.). Brown Joy IV. SoMapagmahal Photography Mxntorship Program. 2018 “Please Close Gently.” Bomb Cyclone, Issue One. “Notes on Devotional Love”. Reclamation. {m}aganda Magazine, Fagarang & Grimaldo, (Eds.). Villaraza, L., Alejo, E., et al. “Thinking about Philippine Studies in the United States in the 21st Century.” The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader. Nievera-Lozano, M., Santa Ana, A. (Eds.). 2017 Alejo, E. & Macario, D. (Eds.). Brown Joy. SoMapagmahal Photography Mxntorship Program. "I Don't Need Your Gaze." Trial. {m}aganda Magazine, Docuyanan, J. (Eds.). 2016 "I Don't Need Your Gaze." Thank You For Nothing, Renae Moua, (Eds.). 2015 "Tracing the Roots of the Isang Bagsak." Nexus: Complicating Community & Centering the Self, Welch, E., Ruanto-Ramirez, J., Magpusao, N., and Amon, S. (Eds.).
PANELS, CONFERENCE AND SPEAKER ENGAGEMENTS 2022 Filipino American History Month: SOMA Pilipinas Heritage District, (with Angelica Cabande, Jeantelle Laberinto, moderated by Erick Arguello), GLIDE Foundation. Online. Mural Mobilizations: Reflecting on the Origins and Contestations that Spurred a Movement (with Jim Dong, Irene Pérez, Michael Rios, and moderated by Cary Cordova), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. Conversations on Carlos Villa: World-Making and Cross-Cultural Solidarity (with Việt Lê and Kathy Zarur), Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. 2021 A Hxstory of Renting, Litquake. Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco. A Hxstory of Renting, American Studies Association. Online. The Latinx/Filipinx Commons: Artists in Revolt From the Islands to the Heart of Empire (with Dr. Karina Gutiérrez, Jewel Pereyra, PhD Candidate, Cynthia Garcia, PhD Candidate, and Panel Chair Angela Marino). Artist Talk, San Francisco State University (Instructor: Kim Acebo Arteche). A Hxstory of Renting, University of San Francisco (Instructor: Jenifer Wofford). A Hxstory of Renting, San Francisco University High School (Instructor: Bria Goelle). Online. Equity for Victoria Manalo Draves Park, ROSE (Reclaiming our Space), SOMCAN. Online. A Hxstory of Renting, Skyline College (with Jeremy Villaluz; instructor: Dr. Rod Daus-Magbual) A Hxstory of Renting, Kearny Street Workshop Presents. Podcast. 2020 Artists and the Environment (with Lian Ladia), Brooklyn Museum. Online. SoMapagmahal Photography Workshop, Galing Bata Bilingual Program. Online. Southeast Asian Resettlement & Photography (with Maggie Quan), Youth Organizing Long Beach Leadership Program—Khmer Girls in Action. Online. A Hxstory of Renting, Creative Cities Symposium, Stanford Arts Initiative. Online. Baysia: Virtual Preview (with Kazumi Chin and Kearny Street Workshop Archives), Balay Kreative. Online. Slide Slam, Asian American Women Artists Association. Online. 2019 Art is My Occupation: Building Your Arts Community (with Tyler EAGLEBABEL Brooks and Rosewater Vigilante (Miranda Shepherd). Stanford University, Stanford, CA. SoMapagmahal Workshop for ROSE (Reclaiming Our Space) Art, Design and Social Equity in the SOMA. San Francisco, CA. 2018 Youth Community Photography as Pedagogy: SoMapagmahal. 17th Biennial Filipino American National Historical Society Conference, Chicago, Illinois. Counternarratives In Youth Photography: SoMapagmahal. Emerging Scholars in Social Justice Conference, CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. Forging Fierce Alliances & Radical Compassion through Creative Community-Based Pedagogy (with Dr. Amanda Solomon-Amorao, DJ Kuttin Kandi, and Dr. Lily Ann Villaraza), Association for Asian American Studies Conference, San Francisco State University. Usap Tayo / Let’s Talk: Stress and Self Care in Destigmatizing Mental Health. Filipino Mental Health Initiative-San Francisco, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. 2017 Capturing Narratives: Engaging Youth Through Photography, (with Dara Del Rosario, Diana Li, Derek Macario) Free Minds Free People Conference 2017, Baltimore, MD. Pin@y Educational Partnerships: Teacher Participatory Action Research (with Deodor Tronco), Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Portland, OR. 2014 Perceived Barriers to Education: A Case Study Among Adult Resettlers. Paper presented for the Department of Human Development, UCSD, La Jolla, CA. Health Seeking Behaviors of Filipina-Americans. Paper presented for the UC Scholars Summer Research Program, UCSD, La Jolla, CA. Media Representations of Mental Health. Paper Presented for the Faculty Mentor Program Symposium, UCSD, La Jolla, CA.
2013 Sociocultural Construction of HIV and AIDS in Ghana: A Case Study. Paper presented at West Africa AIDS Foundation, Accra, Ghana.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2019 – Program Associate (Grants/Professional Development), Office of the Vice President for the Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. 2016 – Project Director and Co-Founder, SoMapagmahal Photography Mxntorship Program, San Francisco, CA. 2016 – 19 Middle School Site Coordinator and Program Leader, Filipino Education Center Galing Bata Bilingual Program, San Francisco, CA. 2016 - 17 8th Grade Ethnic Studies Teacher, Pin@y Educational Partnerships at James Denman Middle School, San Francisco, CA. 2016 Assistant Coordinator and Teaching Artist, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. 2015 Art and Ecology Co-teacher, Sama Sama Cooperative Summer Camp, Berkeley, CA Community Development Intern, Excelsior Action Group, San Francisco, CA.
ORGANIZATIONAL WORK 2020 - Working Group Member, Racial Equity Accountability Group, Stanford Arts, Stanford University Volunteer Surf Instructor, Brown Girl Surf, Bay Area, CA Member, Arts Administrators of Color Network, USA Committee Member, Arts Administrators in Higher Education, USA Member, Women of Color in the Arts, USA 2019 -20 Working Group Member, Creative Cities, Stanford Arts Initiative, Stanford, CA Bay Area Chapter Member, Survival Arts Academy (Pekiti Tirsia Kali—Filipino Fighting Arts), global 2018 - SF Chapter Member, Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), USA 2017 - Arts and Culture Committee, SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Cultural Heritage District, San Francisco, CA 2016 - Artist Member, Asian American Women Artists Association, USA Co-founder, Appendix Collective (Asian American Womxn Queer Artists), USA 2016 - 18 Co-organizer, Filipino Mental Health Initiative San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Committee Member, Filipino Arts and Cinema International Festival (FACINE), San Francisco, CA