Leanne Decca Lumanglas

Leanne Decca Lumanglas is a cultural worker in the Philippines, currently serving as Gallery Manager at the UP Fine Arts Gallery, where she primarily conducts her practice. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman, College of Fine Arts, in February 2023, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts (Art Education) and graduating Magna Cum Laude. She is presently pursuing her Master’s degree in Art Studies (Curatorial Studies) at the College of Arts and Letters at the same university.

Most of her work is situated within the UP Fine Arts Gallery, where, as Gallery Manager, she supervises the daily operations and programming of the three gallery divisions of Parola: Collections Management, Exhibitions Management, and Education and Communications. Her role at Parola allows her to practice museum work oriented towards pedagogy and public education. Her research primarily focuses on the exploration of local curatorial nodes. She is particularly interested in researching in(ter)dependent art practices in the Philippines that foreground and orient curare towards community care and curatorial labor.

Currently, she mainly assists the gallery’s curator with exhibitions that activate the collection. She is focused on recuperating the UP College of Fine Arts Permanent Collection by researching and documenting artworks and artists in the collection, alongside extant archives and documents. This work aims to rethread the fabric of the collection's art history with the institutional history of the UP College of Fine Arts.

Leanne Decca Lumanglas, Gallery Manager/Senior Museum Specialist at UP Fine Arts Gallery, University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in Quezon City, Philippines, has been awarded by the Getty Foundation & Fernando Zobel de Ayala.