Augustine Paredes (b. 1994, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines) is a multi-disciplinary artist questioning what it means to desire in the light of migration, identity, and longing. His expanded photographic practice revolves and evolves in questioning the postcolonial identity of a Filipino in diaspora through different appropriation of artistic mediums, traditional materials, queer gaze, and historical narratives. Augustine works with image-making via photography, painting, poetry, performance, and installation. He lives and works between Frankfurt and Dubai.
His work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries such as Paulina Caspari, (Munich, DE, 2025); Jameel Arts Centre, (Dubai, UAE, 2024); Leaks at Foundry, (Dubai, UAE, 2023); Fffriedrich, (Frankfurt am Main, DE, 2023); Gulf Photo Plus, (Dubai, UAE, 2022); and Today x Future, (Quezon City, PH, 2016). He participated in group exhibitions internationally, most notably at Museum Angewandte Kunst, (Frankfurt, DE, 2024), (Delfina Foundation, UK, 2023), Tarzeer Pictures, (Manila, PH, 2023), Gravity Art Space, (Manila, PH, 2023), (Gulf Photo Plus, UAE, 2023), (Goethe Institut, Dubai, UAE, 2021), Middle East Institute (Washington, US, 2021), among others. 
Augustine authored art and poetry books entitled Slow Disco (2024), The Bitter Taste of Sweetness (2022), Happy to be here to be happy (2022), Long Night Stands With Lonely, Lonely Boys (2021) and Conversations at the end of the universe (2020). 
Augustine has currently been awarded  the Vordemberge-Gildewart Scholarship with a current exhibition in Museum Wiesbaden.

 

Augustine Paredes – Darlings Between Fires (Men in Suit), 2025, Darlings Between Fires (Dining Women), 2025 and Glory, 2025
Museum Wiesbaden, DE, 2025  – Installation view
Augustine Paredes – Darlings Between Fires (Heroine), 2025, Darlings Between Fires (Men in Suit), 2025 and Darlings Between Fires (Dining Women), 2025
Museum Wiesbaden, DE, 2025  – Installation view
Augustine Paredes with Hangping Yang and Amanda Assaley – Glory, 2025
Capiz Shell Powder, Cement, Acrylic, Piña on Wood
150cm x 50 cm x 200 cm
Augustine Paredes – Darlings Between Fires (Dining Women), 2025
Piña, Doily, Oil on Wood, Artist Frame
62 cm x 82 cm
Augustine Paredes – Darlings Between Fires (Scarred Ear), 2025
Piña, Doily, Oil on Wood, Artist Frame
62 cm x 82 cm
Augustine Paredes – Prayers for a Good, Good Boy, 2025
Oil on silk, piña, burn marks, lace trimmings, laced beech wood, artist frame
65.5 x 121.5 cm
Detail, Augustine Paredes – Prayers for a Good, Good Boy, 2025
Oil on silk, piña, burn marks, lace trimmings, laced beech wood, artist frame
65.5 x 121.5 cm
Augustine Paredes – Singkil, 2025
Piña, cocoon silk, oil on canvas, acrylic on canvas, lace
trimmings, Ink-stained pine wood, artist frame
54 x 44 x 2.5 cm
Detail, Augustine Paredes – Singkil, 2025
Piña, cocoon silk, oil on canvas, acrylic on canvas, lace
trimmings, Ink-stained pine wood, artist frame
54 x 44 x 2.5 cm
Augustine Paredes – Paraluman, 2025
Piña, cocoon silk, oil on canvas, acrylic on canvas, lace
trimmings, lace, chiffon, Ink-stained pine wood artist
frame
54 x 44 x 2.5 cm
Augustine Paredes – Lamentations, 2024
Artist‘s Rooms: Augustine Paredes, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE, 2024 – Installation view
Augustine Paredes – Desires, 2024
Piña, wood, burn marks
Artist‘s Rooms: Augustine Paredes, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE, 2024 – Installation view
Augustine Paredes – Lament for Longings 1, 2024
Piña, chiffon, ink, graphite, acrylic, wood, wool,  waxed thread
artist frame
41 x 45 cm
Augustine Paredes – Lament for Longings  2, 2024
Piña, callado embroidery, chiffon, pearls, photographic print, ink, graphite, acrylic, wood, waxed thread
artist frame
92 x 46 cm
Augustine Paredes – Litany 4, 2024
Piña, waxed thread, acrylic pearls, carbon paper, ribbon
41.5 cm x 31.5 cm
Augustine Paredes – Litany 3, 2024
Piña, waxed thread, acrylic pearls, carbon paper, ribbon
41.5 x 31.5 cm
Augustine Paredes – If I Must Sin, 2024
Piña, chiffon, silver gelatin on paper, charcoal, wax thread, acrylic. 90 cm x 90 cm each
Augustine Paredes – If I Must Sin, 2024
Piña, chiffon, silver gelatin on paper, charcoal, wax thread, acrylic. 90 cm x 90 cm each
Augustine Paredes – If I Must Sin, 2024
Detail
Augustine Paredes – If I Must Sin, 2024
Detail
Augustine Paredes – Premise for temporary solitude, 2024
Piña, Photographic print on paper, Chiffon, Wood, Rock salt
Detail
Augustine Paredes – Flightless, 2023
Oil on canvas, lace, chiffon
 
Augustine Paredes – Yearning The Sun To Fall
Fffriedrich, Frankfurt, DE, 2023
Installation view
Augustine Paredes – Yearning The Sun To Fall
Fffriedrich, Frankfurt, DE, 2023
Installation view
Augustine Paredes – Thannk You, Sorry, 2023
Mixed media, oil and acrylic on canvas, gesso, plastic, sugar packet, chiffon
Augustine Paredes – If I must fly, let my wings be embers, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas, chiffon
Augustine Paredes – Obliterations, 2023
Detail
Augustine Paredes – Obliterations, 2023
Augustine Paredes – Obliterations, 2023
Detail