about

I work primarily in textile and socially engaged art, and my background in fashion, economics, and population studies informs my art practice. With my work often intertwining with Southeast Asian communities, I've started the mobile, artist-led space Malikhain Community and Art Space. My current projects also include the Do-it-Yourself Fashion Workshop (since 2017), participatory storybook and story-making sessions (since 2019), and an artistic action research on kindness. 

Malikhain Community and Art Space is a mobile, artist-led space that I have founded. It had its first gathering through the Threatened Species Exhibition in February 2023. In 2024, we participated in the 25th anniversary celebration of UNIDEE Residency Programs in Italy, which included talks and activities centered on socially engaged art.

This site chronicles my artistic practice.  

Mae Aguinaldo

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

E-flux: Ways of Becoming: 25 years with UNIDEE - Kindnesses project

UNIDEE 2021: Groundwork for Embedded Arts Practice

98b collaboratory - Taghiyawat na Naging Nunal, an ESC project by Mae Aguinaldo-Mapa

ArtsRepublic.sg - A Pimple that became a Mole: a pop-up art installation

Allevents Bangkok - Threading Narratives. A solo exhibition by Mae Aguinaldo-Mapa

Pardicolor Creative Arts Fund of Wildlife Asia - Threatened Species

Threatened Species Exhibition c/o Malikhain Community and Art Space

Singapore International Foundation Arts for Good Fellowship 2022-2023

LASA-Cuba - Conference and Workshops on People-Centered Processes during the BangMod Creative Community Festival, Bangkok

Filipinas Heritage Library - Philippine COVID Archive: Pandemic Puzzle

Social Art Library - Patch (2020/2021)

Social Art Library - MultiPaws, Bangkok

Entrada (Vol. 2, Issue 2), PUP Center for Creative Writing - Pag-Inda't Pananalig with Dennis Aguinaldo

Center for Art and Thought - Cloth of Air: A Guide to the Filipino Overseas (seasons change)