biography
Sherry Quiambao is an Australian-Filipina artist based in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. Her multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video, sculpture and installation, often using everyday objects to explore memory, cultural heritage, aspiration and consumerism. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in the Philippines, the United States, Indonesia and Japan.
Recent exhibitions include de-centre re-centre at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery with Perth Centre for Photography as part of Perth Festival (2025), Veiled in Bloom at Michael Reid Northern Beaches (2025), and Veiled in a Golden Hue at Goolugatup Heathcote (2024). In 2025, Quiambao received the First Time Finalist Award in the National Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery and was a finalist in the National Still Life Award and the City of Joondalup Invitation Art Prize. She is a recipient of the Minderoo Artist Fund (2026).
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2026 Minderoo Foundation Artist Fund recipient
2026 PICA Quick Response Studio Residency
2026 Short Notice Activity Grant, CITS WA
2025 National Photographic Portrait Prize, First Time Finalist Award
2025 BREEZE, PICA International Studio Residency - Makassar, Indonesia
2024 Arts Projects for Individuals grant recipient, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, WA
2024 Artist in resident, Fremantle Arts Centre
2022 Wyndham Art Prize in A Box, selected artist
2019-2020 Artist in resident, Fremantle Arts Centre
2018 Art Angels Subsidy recipient
2018 Creative Development Grant U15K recipient, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, WA
2015 Commission, City of Perth
2013 Artist in resident, Light & Space Contemporary, Manila Philippines
2009 Deans Award, ACU -
2026 Between holding and letting go, Kings ARI, Melbourne & Makassar International Writers Festival (screening)
2025 Veiled in bloom, Michael Reid Northern Beaches
2025 A path of fleeting dreams, Koorliny Arts Centre, Perth
2024 Veiled in a golden hue, Goolugatup Heathcote, Applecross
2015 Strange Nebulae, Peekaboo Gallery, Perth
2013 Hubble:Habitat, Light & Space Contemporary, Manila Philippines
2012 Misty Canyon, Incu QV, Melbourne
2011 Cavern, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2009 Big Mountain, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne -
2025 To hold and pour, Room Service, Fremantle Biennale, Walyalup
2025 Joondalup Invitation Art Prize, Joondalup Contemporary Art Gallery, Perth
2025 IRIS Award (finalist), Perth Centre for Photography at Cheap Tongue Gallery, Walyalup
2025 I/LAND, Ephemere Photo Festival (EPF), Gallery Conceal Shibuya, Tokyo Japan
2025 STILL: National Still Life Award (finalist) - Yarrila Arts Museum, Coffs Harbour NSW
2025 National Photographic Portrait Prize (finalist), National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2025 I/LAND, Fotomoto.PH, BenCab Museum, Benguet, Philippines
2025 Sculpture @ Bathers 6, Fremantle / Walyalup
2025 de-centre re-centre, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery x Perth Centre for Photography as part of Perth Festival
2025 I/LAND, Fotomoto.PH x Ayalya Musuem, Makati Philippines
2024 Collective, Perth Centre for Photography, Walyalup
2024 Rockingham Art Prize (finalist), Rockingham
2023 Collective, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2023 Mid West Art Prize (finalist), Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton WA
2023 CCP Summer Salon, CCP, Fitzroy VIC
2023 Bunbury Biennale: A Cultural Ecology, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury WA
2022 Look Closer: Photo Project, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2022 Wyndham Art Prize (finalist), Wyndham Cultural Centre, Werribee VIC
2021 Mid West Art Prize (finalist), Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton WA
2021-22 Collective, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2020 Joondalup Invitation Art Prize (finalist), Hillarys WA
2020 Days of Their Lives, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2019 Collective, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2019 Between the Sheets, Gallery Central, Perth
2019 Now, Old Customs House, Fremantle WA
2018 Galvanise, Old Customs House, Fremantle WA
2018 Sly Village, Sculpure By the Sea, Cottesloe
2015 Tokens & Structures, Light Locker Art Space, Perth
2013 Dirty, Poorly Dressed and Filled with Love, Erewhen Centre for the Arts, Quezon City Philippines
2013 Bigger Than Me, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
2013 Sculpture Party, C3 Art Space, Abbotsford VIC
2013 Land, Wyndham Art Centre, Werribee VIC
2012 Tree, Wyndham Art Centre, Werribee VIC
2012 Brave New World, Toyota, Port Melbourne VIC
2012 Lie of the Land, Embassy of Australia, Washington DC USA
2011 Ground Cover, Gilligan Grant Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Cutting Edge Gadgets of the 1980's, Upstairs @ Napier, Fitzroy VIC
2005 Toyutopia, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford VIC
2001 Contents May Settle, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton WA
2000 Nine Lives, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton WA