Bio
Filipe has a studio @Hatchstreetstudios in New Bedford. His work weaves folkloric narratives, personal connections and current events into total art installations. Filipe's drawings, paintings, sculptures and art installations invite the audience into the story. He earned an MFA from the University of Connecticut with a focus in Studio Art. Filipe has exhibited at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, The Wallace Anderson Gallery at Bridgewater State University and former Gallery and Project Space Location1 in NYC. His work has been selected for National Juried shows throughout New England. Filipe is also one of the founding members of SNAC since 2008, Southern New England Artist Community, an artist group that works collectively seeking projects and exhibition opportunities. Filipe has taught a variety of fine arts courses at Bridgewater State University and other local institutions. He currently resides in Onset Ma. and is a Visual Arts Teacher at Barnstable High School.
Filipe has a studio @Hatchstreetstudios in New Bedford. His work weaves folkloric narratives, personal connections and current events into total art installations. Filipe's drawings, paintings, sculptures and art installations invite the audience into the story. He earned an MFA from the University of Connecticut with a focus in Studio Art. Filipe has exhibited at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, The Wallace Anderson Gallery at Bridgewater State University and former Gallery and Project Space Location1 in NYC. His work has been selected for National Juried shows throughout New England. Filipe is also one of the founding members of SNAC since 2008, Southern New England Artist Community, an artist group that works collectively seeking projects and exhibition opportunities. Filipe has taught a variety of fine arts courses at Bridgewater State University and other local institutions. He currently resides in Onset Ma. and is a Visual Arts Teacher at Barnstable High School.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Show Cape Cod Cultural Center "Social Dissonance" 2021
Hopkinton Center for the Arts “How Artists See Themselves” 2019 Juried
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Foundations Show 2019
Attleboro Art Museum members show 2019-2020
Cape Cod Cultural center Mutual Muses 2019, 2020, 2022 Juried
Narrows Center for the Arts “I believe” 2018
Enso Flatts Gallery “Under careful scrutiny” 2018
Atlantic Warf Gallery”Juried Show” Boston 2018
Cotuit Center for The Arts 2017 “Fire” Juried Show
True Grit Gallery Middleboro 2017
Enso Flatts Gallery Brockton January 2017
Trescott Street Gallery , “Earth” April 2015
Zeitgeist Gallery Beverly Ma. – April 2015
Trescott Street Gallery Taunton, Ma – “Seeing Red” 2015
Marion Art Center Marion Ma.– Three person exhibit 2014
Laura’s Center for the Arts Hanover, MA Group Show 2014
Small Works (group) 2013 New England Artisan Gallery Wrentham, MA
SNAC Summer Exhibition (group) 2013 Warwick Museum of Art Warwick, RI
2nd Annual SNAC Artist Invitational (group) 2013 Hunakai Gallery Foxboro, MA
Four Artists (group) 2012 Zullo Gallery Medfield, MA
Spring Invitational (group)2012 Hancock 309 Gallery and Consignment Dorchester, MA
Small Works (group)2012 Gallery 55 Natick, MA
SNAC 1st Annual Invitational Exhibit (group)2012 Flora T. Little Gallery Bridgewater, MA
SNAC Winter Exhibit (group)2012 Great Ponds Gallery Lakeville, MA
Gallery X New Bedford 2011
Accidental Gallery, Boston 2011
Gallery X New Bedford 2010
Hunakai Art Gallery, Foxboro MA. 2010
Location1 26 Greene St. NY, NY 2000 International Group Show: “Life after the squirrel”
Post Modern Modge Podge Community arts project Created, produced, edited and aired weekly video collage segment
Juried Exhibitions
Abstract Art Contemporary Approaches, Mosesian Center for The Arts Watertown 2022-23
Bromfield Gallery South Boston Winter Exhibition 2015
South Shore Art Center National Juried Show –Earth Wind and Fire 2015
South Shore Art Center National Juried Show – Regarding The Third Dimension 2012
Narrows Center for the Arts “Baggage” National Juried Show July 2011
Bromfield Gallery South Boston 12x12” Juried Show 2009
Phoenix Gallery 210 11th Ave Suite 902 New York , NY National Juried Show 1998
Cambridge Art Association Art of Love National Juried Show 1996
Bridgewater Public Access Cable, Bridgewater, Ma. 2002-2003
Recent Curatorial Projects
Pop Up Show Hatch Street Studios Manuel Contemporary 2022
Seeing Red- Trescott Street Gallery Taunton 2015
Portrait Juried Show – Trescott Street Gallery Taunton 2016
