Maria Taniguchi’s paintings and videos draw attention to acts of composing, constructing, and framing. Her ongoing series Untitled, which the artist paints brick by brick, emphasize the physical accumulation of individual time while eschewing the immediate cultural references often ascribed to artists from Asia.
Maria Taniguchi lives and works in Manila. She is the winner of the 2015 Hugo Boss Asian Art Award. Her mid career survey body of work, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Philippines (2025) travels to Singapore Art Museum in April 2026. Taniguchi will exhibit at the Art Sonje Center in July next year. Selected recent projects include Kohta, Helsinki, Finland; Biennale Arte 2024 60th International Art Exhibition; Gwangju Biennale and the Biennale of Sydney, Australia, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris; 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane; New Sensorium, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologien, Karlsruhe; HIWAR: Conversations in Amman, Amman; and Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art (MHKA), Antwerp.
Selected Works
Maria Taniguchi
Untitled, 2023
acrylic on canvas
229 × 114 cm
Maria Taniguchi
Untitled, 2023
acrylic on canvas
274 × 488 cm
Maria Taniguchi
Untitled, 2023
acrylic on canvas
274 × 122 cm
Maria Taniguchi
Untitled, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
152,5 × 122 × 2,5 cm
Maria Taniguchi
Untitled (room of phases), 2021
Acrylic on canvas
45,7 × 45,7 cm
Maria Taniguchi
Untitled, 2025
acrylic and pencil on canvas
228 × 114 cm
Maria Taniguchi
Untitled, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
45,5 × 51 × 2,5 cm
Maria Taniguchi
Untitled, 2014
Acrylic, canvas
228,6 × 114,3 cm
Maria Taniguchi
Untitled, 2014
Acrylic, canvas, wood support, unframed
305 × 137 × 2,5 cm
External Exhibitions
Solo Presentation
Body of Work | Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila
14.12.2024–30.03.2025
Duo Exhibition
Figure | Kohta, Helsinki
11.04.–16.06.2024
Group Exhibition
Art Histories of a Forever War | Taipei Fine Arts Museum
16.10.2021–20.02.2022
Solo Exhibition
SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement | Biennale of Sydney
16.03.–11.06.2018
Group Exhibition
Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2015 | Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
30.10.2015–03.01.2016
