Date of Birth: 
About Jean Marie Syjuco
- Jean Marie Syjuco (born June 26, 1952) is a painter, installation artist, and performance artist from Manila, Philippines. Through the 1980s and the 1990s, Jean Marie brought attention and institutional support to the maverick art-form of Performance Art in the Philippines.
- Beginning in the 1970s as an extension of her work as a visual artist, her performance works developed from conceptual pieces of marked brevity rooted in anti-narrative devices, to the thematic spectacles and large-scale collaborations and video documentations for which she is now better known.For over 3 decades, she has balanced her roles as a painter of Abstract and Fantasy genres, sculptor, installation and performance artist.
- Since she was awarded the Gold Medal for Sculpture in the 1980 AAP (Art Institution of the Philippines) Annual Art Competition, her transmedia objects and installations have occupied a unique place in contemporary art for their avant-garde melding of folk and technological elements.Jean Marie Syjuco was a recipient of the 1990 Cultural Center of the Philippines Gawad CCP Para Sa Sining Biswal Award.Currently, she is building the New “Art Lab”, a non-profit developmental art facility (founded with her husband, Cesare Syjuco), which served as the haven of experimental art in the 1990s.
Read more at Wikipedia