Artist

Rhine Bernardino

Born

  • Filipino, b. 1988

Education

  • 2015–2017Royal College of Art, MA Fine Art, Sculpture, School of Fine Art (Abraaj-RCA Innovation Scholarship Awardee, 2015; Distinction on Dissertation)
  • BA Film and Audio-Visual Communication, University of the Philippines Film Institute

Affiliations

  • 2012–Present Founder, Co-director and Curator, _inventory Platform
  • 2020–Present Co-director, Tinig UK
  • 2025National Executive Committee, Artists' Union England

Teaching

  • 2017Visiting tutor, BA Fine Art – Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, London
  • 2023Visiting tutor, University of the Philippines Film Institute

Commissions, Residencies and Programs

  • 2025/2026 Floating Art Lab Project, Connections through Culture, British Council
  • 2025/2026 Sarjapura Art House Research Residency, Bangalore, India
  • 2024Arts Council Wales Perspective Fellowship exploratory, with Sadia Hameed
  • 2023Research Residency, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), Tokyo, Japan
  • Davao Art Portal Performance Talk Workshop, Davao, Philippines
  • Unlimited Alumni Bursary Community-based artist residency, South Korea
  • 2022British Council and Unlimited Micro Grant
  • International Research Program, Danish Arts Foundation
  • Khonkaen Manifesto Art Festival, Khonkaen, Thailand
  • Pitch and Mix / Unlimited Festival / Southbank Centre, London, UK
  • Disability, Gender and the Environment, National Council of Women of Great Britain
  • 2021Have You Eaten? Artist Cookbook, Unlimited R&D Grant, supported by Bagri Foundation
  • Exploring Digital Possibilities, Develop Your Creative Practice Grant (DYCP), Arts Council England
  • Food, Futures and Biodiversity Artist Residency, Art Gene, Cumbria, UK
  • Euro-Pinoy Talk 7: Filipino Painters and Curators in Europe, Online
  • 2020On Transversality in Practice and Research, Online Conference, Roehampton University supported by TECHNE
  • OPEN UP: Artists in the Studio, Bagri Foundation
  • Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation Conference, TBA-21 Academy and Ocean Space
  • 2019Room Service, Art Public with LOKALE and Human Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 5th Indonesia Contemporary Ceramics Biennale, Jatiwangi Art Factory, Indonesia
  • Dissecting the Female Body through Art Practice, Pineapple Lab, Makati, Philippines
  • Fail Daily as the Songs of Tidal Waves, TECLand Arts Festival & TASA Annual, Taiwan
  • Critical Playground, Australia Council for the Art's Future Leaders Program, Australia
  • The Rural: Contemporary Art Spaces of Connection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
  • Why Binary Should Have All the Pun? Research Methodology and Curatorial Exchange, Mumbai and Pune, India
  • Associate Producer / Research Placement / Next Wave, Melbourne, Australia
  • Associate Producer, Research Placement, Project O by Big hART, Tasmania, Australia
  • 2018The Body Productive – Conference on Capitalism, Work and Body, Birkbeck University of London, UK
  • The Rising Residency, ]performance space[ + Live Art UK Diverse Actions, Folkestone, UK
  • Always On: Time, Durational Performance Talk and Workshop, Art Portal Gallery, Davao, PH
  • Art and Conflict: Investigating Cross-disciplinary Methodologies, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • SPARK NT Symposium: Aboriginal Curatorial Practice Unpacked, Katherine, Northern Territories, Australia
  • Exploration of the Role of the Arts in Society, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia
  • _inventory Platform's Brgy. South Kensington Publication Launch, LADA, London, UK
  • East and Southeast Asia Art Residencies Meeting, Philippines
  • Whitechapel Gallery's Rural Symposium, Advisory Board, Wysing Arts Centre
  • 2017Open Exchanges, RCA Curating Contemporary Art Graduate Project, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
  • 2016Institut Supérieur Des Beaux Arts, Besançon, France
  • 2015Sammaki Gallery, Battambang, Cambodia
  • 2014Vasudhaivakutumbakam International Site-Specific Residency, Rishikesh, India
  • _inventory International Residency, Romblon, Philippines
  • 2013CRACK International Art Camp, Kushtia, Bangladesh
  • Cactus Contemporary Art Artist Residency, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2022Di/visible Re/Public / Lost Frames Ph & M+, Hong Kong
  • The Great Outdoors with Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Skovhuset Kunst & Natur, Værløse, Denmark
  • One on One Exhibition, Fiumano Clase, Pall Mall, London
  • Art Fair Philippines
  • Library Under the Sea, Care Collective for Curatorial, Online
  • 2021Kalibutan: The World in Mind, Viva ExCon Biennale, Bacolod, Philippines
  • 2020#WIP: Work in Process, Work in Progress, Queer Art Projects, Online
  • Duo Exhibition with Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
  • Celsius Program for Lincoln Live, Mansions of the Future with UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, Lincoln, UK
  • 2019Cutting Corners, 504 Gallery, London, UK
  • Volta Art Fair, Fiumano Clase Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2018Tira Tira, Pineapple Lab, Poblacion, Makati, Philippines
  • The Rising, ]performance space[ with Live Art UK Diverse Actions, Folkestone, UK
  • Discoveries Exhibition, Fiumano Clase, London, UK
  • 2017Meet me by the Balloons, Winter Trails: Remapping Nine Elms Public Art Commission, London, UK
  • Live Senses, Guest Projects, Yinka Shonibare's Studio, London, UK
  • Network by RAGE Collective, Movement Gallery, Worcester, UK
  • Odious Smell of Truth by RAGE Collective with Peter Kennard, Hockney Gallery, RCA, London
  • Brgy. South Kensington, _inventory Platform, London, UK
  • Rhythmic Osmosis, Limehouse Townhall and Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • In Search of our Mothers' Gardens, Copeland Park's Side Room, London, UK
  • 2016Corpografias, A-Side B-Side Gallery, London, UK
  • Lime-in-aid, Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK
  • [R]EVOLVE Performance Art Days, Uppsala, Sweden
  • EXCENTRICITÉS VII Performance Art Festival, Besançon, France
  • Domestic Violins, Courtyard Gallery 1, Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • PerfoArtNet Performance Art Festival, Bogota, Colombia
  • Being – Doing, Asylum, London, UK
  • RCA Secret, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • POW! POW! Action & Performance Art Festival, San Francisco, USA
  • 2015I See You See Me, Delhi Photo Festival, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi, India
  • Bideodromo Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
  • Exhibition + Artist talk, Sao La, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • Open Day Exhibition, Institut Supérieur Des Beaux Arts, Besançon, France
  • Modern Panic V, Apiary Studios, London, UK
  • Infecting the City Public Arts Festival, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 2014Todoroki, Tokyo, Japan
  • AVIFF Art Film Festival, Cannes, France
  • India Art Fair [Intervention Performance], New Delhi, India
  • Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, Kolkata, India
  • 201310th Busan International Video Festival, Busan, Korea
  • Modern Panic IV, Apiary Studios, London, UK
  • International Artists Group Show, Vargas Gallery, Florida, USA
  • 2012Table Setting_inventory, The Warehouse, Quezon City, Philippines
  • Lutang Fixations_inventory, The Warehouse, Quezon City, Philippines
  • 42nd Hailo Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
  • Expectation, Ishmael Bernal Gallery, University of the Philippines
  • 20118th Busan International Video Festival, Busan, Korea
  • 2010SEE-SEA-SAW, UPFI – Tama Art University collaboration exhibit, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Recent Curatorial Projects

  • 2022Greenwich Disabled People's Innovation Project, Culture Access, London
  • 2021Where I'm Coming From II, Co-curator, _inventory Platform, Online
  • 2020Where I'm Coming From, Co-curator, _inventory Platform for Guest Projects, Yinka Shonibare's Studio, Online
  • 2019ArtEx, Project co-director and Program co-curator, Southern Mindanao, Philippines
  • 2018Tira-tira, Co-curator, Arrteh Curatura for Festival of Human Rights, Pineapple Lab, Manila, Philippines
  • 2017DIY Music with Local Communities, _inventory Platform for Winter Trails: Remapping Nine Elms, London, UK
  • On and Off, _inventory Platform for Winter Trails: Remapping Nine Elms, London, UK
  • Bapor Tabo(o), _inventory Platform for Art Licks Weekend, London, UK
  • Brgy. South Kensington, _inventory Platform, London, UK
  • 2016Rhythmic Osmosis, Limehouse Townhall and Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • Lime-in-aid, Limehouse Town Hall, London
  • Domestic Violins, Courtyard Gallery 1, Royal College of Art, London, UK