Avie Felix is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, curator and writer. A graduate of BA Art Studies and MA Art History, she is an assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) teaching cinema studies and film theory. An alumna of ICI's Curatorial Intensive Manila in 2009, she is the curator of the Philippine Pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale. Avie is the founding program director of Young Artists' Studio (YAS), an art school for all ages in key cities in Manila since 2009 and founding director of the curator-run space vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery since 2012. She also currently serves as Vice Chairperson, on her second term as executive council, of the National Committee on Art Galleries (NCAG) of the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA).

 

Avie's art and writing explore materials, forms and expressions of feminist identity, while her research focuses on feminist archival history. Her essays, researches, articles and poetry are published in local magazines, journals, academic platforms and anthologies. She has exhibited her art and led curatorial projects in Manila, Canada, Korea and the US. She is mom and collaborator to emerging artist Malaya with whom she paints, creates, performs, sings, dances, embroiders and exhibits in the Philippines and the US. Avie also co-hosts the film podcast called Screen Cap, a sequel to the radio show Cine Chichirya.