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Stanford University acquires Filipina American artist Pacita Abad’s archive

In Pacita Abad’s lifetime, the Filipina American artist made over 5,000 works—influenced by her travels in more than 60 countries—and exhibited in more than 250 shows, largely in Asia and Africa. But it was her posthumous travelling retrospective—which opened in 2023 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, almost two decades after her death in 2004 at age 58—that brought Abad’s exuberant, multifaceted, 32-year art practice to the attention of US institutions.

Now Stanford University has acquired the artist’s archives, a gift of the Pacita Abad Art Estate, which has also provided funding to...

Stanford University acquires the Pacita Abad Archives

Spanning Pacita Abad’s visionary 32-year career, during which she created over 5,000 artworks and lived in and traveled to more than 60 countries, the Pacita Abad Archives will expand the study and legacy of an extraordinary international artist

Pacita Abad’s Archive Arrives at the Place Where Her Career Started

Before her death in 2004, the artist Pacita Abad traveled to over 60 countries and made more than 5,000 artworks. Only lung cancer stopped her; she died at age 58 in Singapore after completing a large-scale painting installation across the Alkaff Bridge.