About

Born in the Philippines in 1989, Miguel Libarnes migrated to California at the age of 18. He graduated from UC Santa Cruz where he received the William Hyde & Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship and numerous artist grants. He has exhibited in the U.S., Switzerland, and the Philippines. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York where he continues his practice as a mixed media artist focusing on what it means to be a queer Filipino immigrant in the U.S.