ROMSON BUSTILLO
ROMSON REGARDE BUSTILLO
BORN
Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao Island, the Philippines
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS + INTERVENTIONS
2022 Sa Pagsulti/To Tell – Installation/ Intervention, Centro Negra, Blanca, Spain
2020 Spatial II, Intervention, Pier 62, Seattle, WA
Yellow No. 5, Bellevue Art Museum
Spatial, Intervention, Bali Purnati Residency, Bali, Indonesia
“...for things to come”, Intervention, Seattle Design Fair Reflections,
Bill and Melinda Gates Discovery Center, Seattle, WA
2019 More than can be held, Solo Exhibition/Intervention, Hedreen Gallery,
Seattle, WA
Inherent Visions, Neddy Award Finalists Exhibit, Cornish College, Seattle, WA
Face First, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
2018 9th International Printmaking Biennal Douro, Douro, Portugal
Vassal Republic, Solo Exhibition, Edmonds Community College Art Gallery,
Edmonds, WA
2017 You are Loved, Installation/Intervention, Seattle Asian Art Museum 3rd
Global Print International, Douro, Portugal
Kingdom of Prophets, Solo Exhibition, Feast Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Maayo: Migration Stories, Intervention, Seattle Art Museum Dukkha
and Liberation, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016 What You See is What You Sweat, COCA Gallery, Seattle
The Biology of Culture – Installation/Intervention – 9e2 Art and Technology
Festival, Seattle, WA
The Logic of Chance, Gallery One Visual Art Center, Ellensburg, WA
2014 Long Stories, Solo Exhibition, Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA
Dugay na, Solo Exhibition. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art,
Bainbridge Island, WA
2013 Paper Unbound: Horiuchi and Beyond, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle
La Influencia: Oaxacan and Seattle Printmakers, Rosetta Hunter Gallery, SCC
First Light, Bainbridge Island Museum of Arts, Bainbridge Island, WA
2012 Traditions, Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle Central College
Chasing Device and Softening Tools, Solo Exhibition, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA
Guelaguetza Grafica Seattle-Oaxaca, UABJO, Oaxaca, México
2011 New Works, Solo Exhibition, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA
Dinhi sa Paraiso, Installation/Intervention, ID/Chinatown, Seattle, WA
2010 Passages at Inscape – Installation/Intervention, INS Building, Seattle, WA
2009 James Washington Jr. Foundations AIR Artists Exhibition, Pratt Gallery,
Seattle, WA
Facial Recognition System, Solo Exhibition, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery,
Seattle, WA
2008 To Make Hard Soft, Installation/Intervention, James Washington Jr.
Foundation, Seattle, WA
2005 Identity Crisis, Haven Gallery, New York City
2003 Remote -Visual Artists from the Pacific Northwest, Flux Gallery, NYC
SELECTED AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Northwest Film Forum Collective Power Fund Award/Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2022
Artist Trust Artist Innovator Award, 2021
Arts-Individual Projects Grant, 4Culture, 2018, 2020
Artist Trust Fellowship, 2019
Finalist, Neddy Award, 2019
Conductive Garboil Grant, 2017
Artist Trust GAP Recipient, Seattle Art Dealers Association Award, 2017
Seattle Print Arts Larry Sommers Art Fellowship, 2016
Artist Trust, GAP Recipient, Travel/Field Research, Philippines, 1999
SEED Program Grant, 1998
METRO Arts Program Grant, WA State Dept. of Transportation, 1995
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
The Jack Straw New Media Gallery AIR Cohort, 2023-2024
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA 2023
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA 2022, 2023
LaMaldita Estampa, Barcelona Spain, 2021, 2022
AADK Spain, Blanca, Spain 2021
Bali Purnati, Bali, Indonesia 2020
Seattle Public Library, 2019
Amazon Art Program, Seattle, WA. 2019
James Washington Jr. Foundation, 2008
Pratt Fine Arts Center, 1999
Tacoma Art Museum, National Endowment for the Arts Supported Teaching AIR, 1998-1999
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
City of Seattle Portable Work/SPU, Seattle, WA
Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA
City of Tacoma Portable Works, Tacoma, WA
Washington State Art Commission
Regional Arts & Cultural Council, Portland, OR
Asian Counseling & Referral Services, Seattle, WA
Century Link Stadium, Seattle, WA
ArtColl Trust, Seattle, WA
Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA
Amazon, Seattle, WA
Meta Open Arts (Facebook) Bellevue, WA
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
SELECTED MEDIA