Florentina P. Colayco
Associate Professor
Dean (2006 to present)
EDUCATION
MA. Graphic Communications Management & Technology
New York University, New York.
BA, Art History/Studio Arts
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York.
AB Humanities (Art History)
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
Non-degree
Parsons School of Design, New York.
UP CFA EXPERIENCE
Colayco has been with UP CFA since 1997. For the last eleven years, she has shared years of educational training and professional experience in art history and the converging fields of graphic design, publishing, media and graphic communications management and technologies. She has taught foundation courses in Asian Art and currently handles advance courses in Art and Design Theory. She is a faculty of the MFA program of CFA.
As the chairperson for the Theory Department from 2004-2006, she initiated exchange artist residency programs with Singapore Sculpture Square and organized workshops with visiting artists like Pacita Abad and master papermaker of the the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Richard Hungerford.
She is a 2005 grantee of the Pura Kalaw professorial chair.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Prior to joining UP CFA, Colayco worked for many years as a graphic designer and design and technology consultant for companies in New York and the Philippines. In 2000, she founded ArtPostAsia Pte Ltd,, a specialty publishing group focusing on internally distributed publications on Asian art, cultural traditions, heritage, environment, and lifestyle.
She has been Dean of the UP College of Fine Arts since October 2006.
INSTITUTIONAL PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS
December 2007. Asean Publication: Inside the Southeast Asian Kitchen. Best Country World Gourmand Cookbook Award. (Dec 2007). Finalist, Best Asian Culinary Publication. World Gourmand Cookbook Award. January- May 2008.
October 2007. Zhangzhou Ware in the Philippines.
June 2007. World Heritage Sites of the Philippines. Paris.
Launched and Presented at the Unesco Headquarters. June 2007
June 2007. Museum Treasures of Southeast Asia. Musee Quai du Branly Presentation and Launch. Paris
May 2007. Speaker. Southeast Asian Design Symposium. Kookmin University. Seoul. Korea.
October 2006. Asean Publication. Southeast Asian Art & Culture: Ideas, Forms and Societies.
2002. Venice Open 2002 (Curator for the Philippines). Italy. (International art exhibition curated by the late Pierre Cavestany and organizers of the Venice Biennale)
2002. Speaker. Global Knowledge Renaissance. World Library Summit. April 2002. Singapore. Suntec Convention Center.
