Avie Felix is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, curator, writer, and assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute, teaching cinema studies and film theory. A graduate of BA Art Studies and MA Art History from the University of the Philippines where she taught critical perspectives in the arts, Avie is a collaborator and alumna of Independent Curators International (ICI), headquartered in New York. She is founding program director of Young Artists’ Studio, an art school based in key cities in Manila, and founding curator of the curator-run space called vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery. Avie currently serves as Vice Chairperson of the National Committee on Art Galleries (NCAG) of National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA). Her art and writing explore materials, forms and expressions of feminist identity, while her research focuses on feminist archival history. Her essays, researches, articles and poetry are published in local magazines, journals, academic platforms and anthologies. 

 

She is a mom and collaborator to emerging artist Malaya with whom she paints, creates, performs, sings, dances, embroiders and exhibits in the Philippines and the United States. Avie also co-hosts the film podcast called Screen Cap, a sequel to the radio show Cine Chichirya.