Born
1983 New Jersey, USA
Lives & Works
Allendale, Michigan, USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 (forthcoming) Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, Society of 23’s Conservatory
2024 Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI, Mr. Society of 23
2021 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, Society of 23’s Trophy Game Room
2020 FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL, Commercial Break
2018 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY, Selections from Society of 23's Locker Dressing Room. Curated by Marly Hammer and John Richey
2012 Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, Public Displays of Affection
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Project for Empty Space, BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY), Cross-Country Mobile Exhibition
2023 South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, Biennial 32. Juried by Michele Bosak
2020 Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA, Guilty Party. Curated by Justin Charles Hoover
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA. STILL HERE // Screen Art Series. Curated by Nathan Lewis
2019 FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL, All We Want to See is Ourselves. Curated by Jan Christian Bernabe
2018 Harrison @ Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY, Twenty-first Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations; Episode 2: One Liners. Curated by Kendra Jayne Patrick
2017 Center for Art and Thought, web-based, Queer Horizons. Curated by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina
2016 Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, FUTURE TALK. Curated by Heather Duffy
2014 University of California, Riverside, Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Queer Sites and Sounds. Curated by Jan Christian Bernabe
2013 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, Proximities 3: Import/Export. Curated by Glen Helfand
2012 Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI, Role/Play. Curated by Michele Bosak
Permanent Commissions
2024 Corewell Health, Dancing Through
Corewell Health, Facets #4
2023 Gerald R. Ford International Airport, Facets
2020 Downtown Grand Rapids, Inc., Pride Pad
Awards & Residencies
2021 Artist in Residence, Mattress Factory
2017 Installation Category Juried Award, ArtPrize
Artist Seed Grant presented by the Frey Foundation, ArtPrize
2012 Nominee, SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2011 Finalist, Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium Writing Fellowship, Art Practical
Teaching Positions
2023 Adjunct, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Contributing Writer
Art21 Blog
Bad At Sports
HuffPost
Hyperallergic
Education
2011 MFA San Francisco Art Institute
2005 BFA Carnegie Mellon University
2000 Summer Cooper Union
Bibliography
2018 Jeffrey Augustine Songco Interview, Asian American Art Oral History Project of DePaul University. Interview by Yara Cruz
2017 Queering Contemporary Asian American Art, University of Washington Press. Edited by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina
Selected Press
2024 Stateside Podcast on Michigan Public NPR, The Creative World of Jeffrey Augustine Songco
Grand Rapids Magazine, Artist explores pageant culture through self-portraiture
2023 Gerald R. Ford International Airport, Ford International Airport Selects Local Artist for Aerial Art Installation in Newly Expanded Concourse A
2021 BOMB, ‘I Have Had Enough Conversations To Know That Flowers Sell: Jeffrey Augustine Songco Interviewed by Jessica Lanay’
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ‘Society of 23’ art exhibit explores greatness, identity at the Mattress Factory
Forbes, In Jeffrey Augustine Songco’s America, You Can Be Both A Bro And A Queen
Pittsburgh City Paper, Fictional frat life plays out in Mattress Factory’s “Society of 23's Trophy Game Room”
2020 Newcity Art, Art Top 5: April 2020
2019 Sixty Inches from Center, 7 Reflections & Suggested Sounds: ALL WE WANT IS TO SEE OURSELVES at FLXST Contemporary
Hyperallergic, The Curdling of American Masculinity in University Frats
2018 W Magazine, The Most-Instagrammed Art of Armory Week 2018, from Evaporating Clouds to $1.5 Million TV Sets
HuffPost, New York’s Scrappiest Art Fair Lives Inside A Corporate High-Rise
Hyperallergic, Spring Break Is an Oasis for Art Fair Haters
ARTnews, A Tour of the 2018 Spring/Break Art Show
The Art Newspaper, New York's March fairs aim to seize market moment
2017 The Daily Beast, How Betsy DeVos Became an Unexpected Champion of LGBTQ Art
artnet, How the New Queer Asian American Criticism Is Shifting the Way We See Art
2016 Detroit Free Press, Discovering the sublime, avoiding the ridiculous at ArtPrize
2014 San Francisco Arts Quarterly, SFAQ Review: "Proximities 3: Import/Export,"
Selected Lectures & Panels
2024 Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, MI
2023 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ECPOSI, Chicago, IL
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2021 Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2018 Open Society Foundations, New York, NY
Asian Art Museum and Pilipinx American Library, San Francisco, CA
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Failure Lab, Grand Rapids, MI
Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI
2017 Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Portland, OR
2014 University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, Queer Sites and Sounds Symposium
2013 Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference
2012 University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Awesome Childhood Memories That I’ll Never Forget
New Jersey Ballet, Trained in ballet, tap, and jazz, 1988 - 1998
Gypsy, Newsboy, Victor & Violin, Paper Mill Playhouse, 1998
The Nutcracker, Various roles, New Jersey Ballet, 1991 - 1997
North New Jersey Junior Regional Chorus, 1997
Children of Eden, Ensemble, Paper Mill Playhouse, 1997
ACDA National Children's Honor Choir, San Diego Convention Center, 1996
South Pacific, Jerome, Paper Mill Playhouse, 1994