Statement
My work is indebted to meditation practice, the shimmering radiance of nature, and the innumerable pleasures of a body in motion. Essentially it is an abstraction of connections and relations, from the social to the spiritual, alluding to dance floor liberation, democratic society, and the interconnection of all living things. To access this vision and to express it, I focus on perception in an embodied experience of the world, ever in the flux of becoming, and of finding oneself always in the midst of that movement and transformation. I invite viewers to observe themselves seeing, feeling and thinking as the perceptual dynamics of the compositions slowly unfold.
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Solo Exhibitions
2026 Free Association | Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law SF, San Francisco, CA
2021 Held Together | Farm Projects, Wellfleet, MA
2020 A Thing or Two | Farm Projects, Wellfleet, MA
2018 Chromatopia | Hang Art, San Francisco, CA
2013 Bold As Love | CIC, Cambridge, MA
2012 Bold As Love | Farm Project Space + Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2010 Linescapes | Farm Project Space + Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Selected Group & Two-Person Exhibitions
2026 Progress Report | Confloptus, Oakland, CA
2025 ART FWD: 5 × 5 × 5 | Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, San Rafael, CA
2024 Gather | Seed Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Think Slow, Think Deep | AGI House, Hillsborough, CA
2023 Art Market SF | San Francisco, CA
2022 Art Miami | Miami, FL
2021 Who Happened? | Your Mood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Miami | Miami, FL
2020 de Young Open | de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
MFA Never | Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Left Coast | Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2019 Shiny Happy | Hang Art, San Francisco, CA
SCOPE Miami Beach | Miami, FL
45 Revolutions Per Minute| Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2017 Visual Planes | Hang Art, San Francisco, CA
2016 Summer National Juried Exhibition | Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
New Quarters | Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco, CA
2015 Aqua Art Miami | Miami, FL
Ordering| Hang Art, San Francisco, CA
2014 Farmers All In | Farm Project Space + Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2013 Winter Reading: Lines of Poetry | Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
2012 Farmers Here | Farm Project Space + Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Same, Same, But Different | Hang Art, San Francisco, CA
2011 Gifting Abstraction | Soho20 Gallery, New York, NY
Farmers | Farm Project Space + Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2010 Everyday is Not the Same | Branch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Boom | Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2008 New Visions 2008 | Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 New Directions '07 | Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Faber Birren Color Award Show | Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT
2005 Nichos y Recuerdos – El Círculo de la Luz | Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2002 Substance of Choice: Emerging Latino/a Artists | Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Residencies
2025 Winslow House Project, Vallejo, CA
2020 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Other Projects
2020 Presidio Field Hospital Mural Project | San Francisco, CA
2019-2020 Deleuze & Guattari Reading Group | Pro Arts Gallery & Commons, Oakland, CA
Collections
CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center), Cambridge, MA
Google, Mountainview, CA
California Tennis Club, San Francisco, CA
Press
Corbin, Mary, “Sticking to it: The packing tape art of Pablo Manga,” 48hills.org, April 2, 2024
Associated Press, "Artists bring life to field hospitals set up to help with surging coronavirus pandemic," Honolulu Star Advertiser, December 9, 2020
Piazza, Kurt, “Original Artwork Favorites at Basel Miami 2019,” Lonelyocean.art, December 8, 2019
Beaulieu, Kristen, “Colorful Art at Art Basel Miami 2019,” Lonelyocean.art, December 3, 2019
Barry, Amy J., “Artists on the Same Page,” The Day, February 2, 2013
Katz, Marni Elyse, “Art Monday: Pablo Manga,” Stylecarrot.com, July 30, 2012
Katz, Marni Elyse, “Art Monday: Pablo Manga at Farm Project Space + Gallery,” Stylecarrot.com, Aug. 23, 2010
Cheng, DeWitt, “Picks: Every Day is Not the Same,” East Bay Express, August 4-10, 2010: 21
Storck, Jeanne, “Extra-ordinary Perspective,” The Monthly, Vol. 40, No. 10, July 2010: 12
Gelbach, Amy, “I am a Tape Junkie: Substance of Choice at Galería de la Raza,” SF Station.com, Aug. 2, 2002
Education
2003 Juris Doctor | U.C. Berkeley School of Law
1996 Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy | U.C. Berkeley