(he/they)
is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York.
They cut their teeth in the streets, documenting and organizing with the Filipino National Democratic movement and the W.O.W. Project, a women, queer, and trans-led community initiative that uses art and activism to protect NYC Chinatown’s culture. In 2017, they started a portrait project of queer Asian-Americans, which inevitably led them into the QTBIPOC nightlife and drag scenes in New York. Informed by their own experience as a trans person of color, Marion uses their camera to immortalize queer joy as a form of liberation.
They have shown work at The Wing Luke Museum, Red Hook Labs, The San Diego Filipino Film Festival, and MoodRing.
Their work is currently being shown in “WE ARE ONE,” an exhibition celebrating the 1982 International Ladies’s Garment Workers’ Union Strike in Chinatown.
Catch them at the club.
They’ll dance with you and take your picture too. 💋
MARION AGUAS aka
MARION PRINSESA
hitmeup@marionaguas.com
Marion Aguas
hitmeup@marionaguas.com
EDUCATION:
M.P.S. in Fashion Photography, June 2017 –
School of Visual Arts, New York
B.S. in Physiological Sciences,
Minor in Music History, June 2012 –
University of California, Los Angeles
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS:
2023 Chrysalis: Curated by Kiera Johnson + Mischelle Moy @ Persona NYC, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Archive as Memorial: Documenting A/P/A Voices During COVID-19 @ Storefront for Ideas, Chinatown, NY
2022 WE ARE ONE, Celebrating the 1982 International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Strike @ Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, NY
2022 Filipinx Excellence @ TROPA TROPA TROPA!, MoodRing, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Female Gaze @ Praxis Gallery Minnesota, MN
2021 Queens Solidarity Festival @ Rainey Park, Queens, NY
2021 Margarita Island @ Queering Film Film Festival Brooklyn, NY
2021 Margarita Island @ San Diego Filipino Film Festival San Diego, CA
2020 Photography & Mental Health Panel @ Photo Café / Seeing Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Asian Pacific American Feminisms, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA
2018 Authority Collective Showcase, Brooklyn, NY
2018 SVA MPS Photography Graduate Show, Red Hook Labs, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Exploration of the Elements: Water, Theory Flagship Store, New York, NY
2017 Water Portraits, Fast Retailing Gallery, New York NY
AWARDS:
2022 Honorable Mention for “In My Good Light” @ Praxis Gallery: Female Gaze
2017 Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Distinguished Alumni SVA
PUBLICATIONS:
2023 Asian American Arts Alliance
2022 Vogue
2022 TIME
2022 Vanity Fair
2022 Womanly Magazine
2022 Philippine Daily Mirror
2020 PAPER
2019 galdem
2019 Slant’d
2018 Broadly
2018 VICE
2017 WWD: Women’s Wear Daily
SELECT CLIENT LIST:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Lincoln Center, Eventbrite, Planned Parenthood Greater New York, Bubble_T, Whorechata, Wing on Wo and Co., W.O.W. Project, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, Asian American Feminist Collective, Luna Park Coney Island, Brooklyn Navy Yards, Our Place
AFFILIATIONS:
Authority Photography Collective; DurianDays Art Collective;
The Filipino National Democratic Movement through organizations: GABRIELA New York, BAYAN NorthEast