Pam Quinto (b. 1991, Quezon City) graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts, major in Studio Arts (Painting) in 2014 from the University of the Philippines, from which she received the Outstanding Thesis and the Gawad Tanglaw awards for her undergraduate thesis. In the same year, she became part of the inaugural batch of the Artery Mentorship Program organized by Artery Art Space in Manila. She apprenticed in ceramics under artists Katti Sta. Ana and Roberto Acosta. She is also the founder of Parcel Exhibitions, an alternative exhibition modality that seeks to sustain the intimacy of physically experiencing art in the time of Covid-19.

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Quinto’s works explore the potentialities of ceramics as medium and how it is used alongside other forms and materials. In her practice, an astute sensitivity to how ceramics becomes a remnant of memory or sympathy to the human psyche is seen and felt. In her hands, the affective materiality of ceramics is foregrounded and articulated as a certain sense of intimacy and vulnerability in terms of the thematics of the feminine and in relation to an embracing attentiveness to intricate detail and soft forms that foil ceramics’ logic of hardening or objectifying material. This is seen in how the artist uses resin and textile as ceramic objects, the effect of which renders a solid object that visually retains the litheness of fabric. Quinto’s trajectory is prolific: she works with stoneware, cement, and porcelain and deploys these with interdisciplinary forms such as photography, installation, and text. In Quinto’s works, ceramics is both craft and experiment, vessel and venture.

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Quinto has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Manila and elsewhere, including Figure-proof (2020) at A+ Works of Art, Malaysia and A will for prolific disclosures (2020) at The Drawing Room, both curated by Carlos Quijon; Double Double, Moore in Trouble (2019) at Tin-Aw Gallery curated by Leo Abaya; For Every Atom Belonging to Me (2019) at the Sampaguita Art Projects; Kabit at Sabit (2019), a one-day simultaneous presentation of multi-site site-specific projects all-over the archipelago organized by Load na Dito Projects (Mark Salvatus and Mayumi Hirano); Odds (2019) at District Gallery, curated by JC Jacinto; And So On, And So Forth (2017) at Vetro Gallery, curated by Indy Paredes; At that Moment (2017) at big sky mind; Lilok (2017) at Eskinita Art Gallery; Nuances of Form: 2017 Sculpture Review (2017) at Galerie Stephanie, curated by Ricky Francisco; and, Tirhan (2017), a two-woman exhibition with artist Lui Gonzales at Kaida Contemporary, to name the most recent.