Jason Dy, SJ (b. 1977, Philippines) is a Jesuit priest and artist who lectures at the Fine Arts Department, ADMU, Quezon City. In 2009, he founded the Alternative Contemporary Art Studio (ACAS) at the garage of Sacred Heart Parish, Cebu City in order to promote contemporary art. In 2013, after being a parochial vicar at Sacred Heart Parish, Cebu City and holding his solo exhibition Testimony of What Remains at the Fernando Amorsolo Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, he pursued his graduate studies in the arts, namely, MA by Creative Practice and MA in Art History and Curating at Liverpool Hope University, UK. His creative practice investigates “the community and studio-based responses to changing religious and cultural circumstances, locations and events” (LHU). One notable project was Procesion de los Camareros, commissioned for the first Manila Biennale Open City with the participation of the fifteen pedicab drivers from Barangay 655, Intramuros, Manila (2018). Another one was Not One Less project in Kecamatan Imogiri (2017, Bantul, Yogyakarta) and Project Space Pilipinas (2017, Lucban, Quezon) that responded to EJK violence through happenings and rituals. Currently, since the lockdown in March 2020 because of the pandemic, Dy has been arranging flowers as part of the ongoing art project Arrange/Enliven. This floral arrangement had been part of his recent show Nature is Never Spent at the UP Diliman Vargas in August 2021.
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