John Kenneth Paranada

John Kenneth Paranada is a London and Manila based independent curator and writer working to develop critical cultural forms and open, experimental projects. Kenneth holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London (2016) an MAS in Contemporary Art Theory and Curatorial Practice at the Zurich University of the Arts (2015). His interdisciplinary practice is focused on experimental South East Asian Queer Futures, Indigenous Artefacts, the Anthropocene, and Accelerationist Technologies. Kenneth has worked with art galleries and off spaces including the kamel mennour gallery London, Pi Artworks London, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Chalton Gallery, London, Bärengasse Museum Zürich, knoerle & baëtting contemporary, Ladron Galleria Mexico, Leroy Neiman Art Centre, New York, and Node Centre for Curatorial Studies Berlin among others. He was awarded the exceptional talent visa in the UK in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Purita Kalaw Ledesma Award for Art Criticism in Manila in 2017. He was selected curator for the Asia-Europe Foundation in 2015 and was recently part of the curators laboratory in collaboration with 12th Shanghai Biennale directed by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Yong-Woo Lee (2018). He runs a collective called Never Ripe / Never Rotten with Francesca Altamura and Helena Lugo. Currently he is working on The Centre for Ecologies, Sustainable Transitions, & Environmental Consciousness - an experimental research and contemporary art space that will open in the Philippines in 2020. He is also the assistant curator to Lian Ladia for one of the public programs of the Singapore Biennale 2019 directed by Dr. Patrick D. Flores.