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Nona Garcia
Nona Garcia is an artist whose works express empty apartments, abandoned homes, broken objects,crashed cars, crumpled paers, flooded places, boot homes, portraits without faces, and industrial equipment.Her works also recalls absent people in her works like a breath, an unseen ghost, a permeating smell, a presence that refuses to leave, an unforgettable memory.She was a recipient of the 13 Artists Award and 2000, She was also the grand prize winner of the Philip Morris Group of Companies ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Art Award in Singapore.

Biography
NONA GARCIA was born on 1978 in Manila, Philippines and later received a degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of the Philippines.

Filipino artist, Nona Garcia ,whose works express empty apartments, abandoned homes ,broken objects, crashed cars, crumpled papers, flooded places, boot homes, portraits without faces, decayed pavilions, saints with averted faces, wrapped surgical and industrial equipment, ready to be sanitized in the auto clave. Some of her images are done with microscopic probing they are first x-rayed and photographed, their negatives displayed in lighted boxes.

EXHIBITION
NONA GARCIA participated in these exhibit

March 2010	THE UNNAMABLE Manila Contemporary March 2010	POSTLOCAL Silverlens Manila

November 2011	A Photography Collection Silverlens Manila May 2011	FLOWERSHOW: CONTEMPORARY TAKES ON THE FLORAL Krem Contemporary Art April 2011	STRIP 2011 Silverlens Manila March 2011	Complete & Unabridged, Part II	Osage Kwun Tong

Reference
http://www.myarttracker.com/node/379108/artist-summary/Nona-Garcia

http://www.manilaartblogger.com/2012/07/13/nona-garcia-goes-somewhere-else-pow-martinez-sploshes-and-pipo-alido-says-o-at-finale/

http://oneartworld.com/artists/N/Nona+Garcia.html

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/nona-garcia-art-angst-microscopically-probed-x-rayed-053201888.html