EDUCATION
MA in Fashion — Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, CA, 2022.
BA in Women’s Studies, Minor in Fashion Merchandising — University of Georgia, Athens, GA, US, 2019.
BA in Art History, Minor in Anthropology — University of Georgia, Athens, GA, US, 2019.
Colonial and Native Worlds Archaeological Field School, Ossabaw Island, GA, and Santa Elena, NC, 2016.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Unravelling. Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON, 2025.
Patuloy Ang Laban: Legacies of Filipino Activism in Toronto. Myseum Intersections 2023. Kamalayan Konsciousness, Toronto, ON, 2023.
RELATED EXPERIENCE: RESEARCH AND WRITING
English Editor, MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), Toronto, ON, 2024 - present.
Philippine Weaving Researcher and Artist, habi habi po, Toronto, ON, 2023 - 2025.
Contributing Writer, Fashion and Race Database, New York, NY, 2024.
Contributing Fashion Researcher and Writer, Fashion Studies Journal, Toronto, ON, 2022 - 2023.
Contributing Writer and Co-Editor, Sa Pagitan, Toronto, ON, 2021 - 2022.
Philippine Weaving Researcher, bago, Los Angeles, CA, 2021.
Fashion Theory Graduate Teaching Assistant, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, 2020.
RELATED EXPERIENCE: COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAMMING
Textile Mending Workshop Facilitator, From Here to Wear Collective with East End Arts, Toronto ON, 2024.
Event Organizer, maghabi magkatabi Zine Launch, habi habi po. Contemporary Textile Studio Co-op. Toronto, ON, 2024.
Weaving Workshop Coordinator, samahan sa basahan, habi habi po, Toronto, ON, 2023.
Textile Mending Workshop Assistant, From Here to Wear Collective with East End Arts, the Bentway, and Stackt Market, Toronto, ON, 2023.
Event Organizer, Dance Back the Night: A Night of Drag and Dance, Athens, GA, 2019.
Event Organizer, Take Back the Mic: All-Women Stand-Up Comedy, Athens, GA, 2019.
Event Organizer, Take Back the Night: Open Mic and Protest, Athens, GA, 2017 - 2019.
RELATED EXPERIENCE: COLLECTIONS CARE AND MANAGEMENT
Studio Assistant and Digital Marketing Coordinator, Secret Planet Screen Printing Studio, Toronto, ON, 2022 - 2024.
Contemporary Art Curatorial Research Intern, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, 2018.
Fashion Show Collections Manager and Event Organizer, Filipino Cultural Night, Athens, GA, 2016 - 2019.
Collections Management Lab Technician, Laboratory of Archaeology, Athens, GA, 2016 - 2017.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
“Foreword.” habilin. habi habi po, 2025.
“Book Review: Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941.” The Fashion and Race Database, 2024.
“maghabi magkatabi.” habi habi po, 2024.
“Malong.” The Fashion and Race Database, 2024.
“SILA/SIYA/AKO.” C Magazine, 2024.
"BAGYO: TEXT(ILE) PAROL.” The Critical Pulse, Issue 8, pages 28-31, 2024.
“to feel at home in my clothed body.” Hamilton Artists Inc, 2023.
“Made in the Philippines: An Interview About Community Care with Vintage Fashion Shop Glorious Dias.” Border Garments: Fashion, Feminisms, and Disobedience: Fashion Studies Journal Special Issue, 2023.
“Beauty to Be Recognized: Making the Fashion Show Accessible.” with Barry, B., Avasco, A., Chantree, R., Clancy, J., and Pollice, A. in Fashion Education: A Systemic Revolution. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
“Filipino Fashion History: Styling a Vintage Barong Tagalog.” Sa Pagitan, 2021.
“Imagining a Future of Disposability: Paper Fashion.” Fashion Research Collection, 2019.
PRESS
“Fashion & Memory: Bianca Isabel Garcia. A Fashion Journey through Diaspora and Decolonisation.” in Fashion & Market. By Faith Cooper, 2025.
“Mga sining ng Filipino artists itinampok sa isang gallery sa Ottawa | OMNI News Filipino.” OMNI Television. By Keisha Balatbat, 2025.
“PHILIPPINE EMBASSY VISITS UNRAVELLING EXHIBITION BY HABI-HABI PO.” Embassy of the Philippines, Ottawa, Canada. 2025.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Toronto Arts Council Creative Communities Project Grant, 2025.
Philippine Studies Group Community-Engaged Research Grant, York University, 2023.
MA School of Fashion Book Prize for outstanding writing in Fashion and Race course, 2021.
MA School of Fashion Book Prize for strong research methods in Fashion Theory/History Seminar II, 2020
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2019.
Outstanding Commitment to Activism Certificate, Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia, 2019.
Bailey Art Scholarship at Lamar Dodd School of Art, 2018.
CURO Research Assistantship Stipend at the University of Georgia, 2018.
Brian Daniel Gumbert Archaeological Field School and Research Award, 2016.
PRESENTATIONS AND ARTIST TALKS
“Artist talk: habi habi po.” Unravelling exhibit. Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario. Virtual Presentation, 2025.
“Electric Hearts: Reimagining the Futurist Human-Machine Hybrid.” Feminist (Re)imaginings of Art. 26th Annual Women’s Studies Research Symposium. Athens, GA. Oral Session Research Presentation, 2019.
“Ecofeminist Theory in Film: Princess Mononoke.” University of Georgia Sustainable Program Semester in Review. Athens, GA. Research Poster Presentation, 2018.
CONTINUED EDUCATION
Family Archival Research with Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa, Harlem, NY (virtual), 2025.
Recipes for Connection: Food Zine Workshop with Meegan Lim x Living Hyphen, Toronto, ON, 2023
Terno Butterfly Sleeve Sewing and Pattern Drafting Workshop with Jillian Joy, East York, ON, 2023.
Intermediate Relief Printmaking with Phoebe Todd-Parrish, Toronto, ON, 2023.
Carlos Bulosan Theatre HASA Collective Creation with Adriano Sobretodo and Marissa Orjalo, Toronto, ON, 2022.
Woven Together: Philippine Weaving with Maria Patricia Abuel at Workman Arts, Scarborough, ON, 2022.
Manual Script Breakdown for Costumers with the Canadian Alliance of Film and Television Costume Arts and Design, Toronto, ON, 2021.