Carlos Villa, "Tatu (Tatu Series)," 1971. Ink on Itek photograph. © Mary Valledor, Estate of Carlos Villa. “There is no Filipino art history,” one of the artist ...

More than a decade after his passing, Lying + Flying at Silverlens Manila marks Carlos Villa’s first dedicated exhibition in the Philippines, an archipelago that shaped him long before he ever set ...

Carlos Villa, “Self-Portrait (Tattoo Drawing)” (1971), Itek photograph with ink, 21 1/2 x 12 7/8 inches, Oakland Museum of California Collection, gift of The Manuel Neri Trust (all photos by the ...

It all began with electrical issues at a studio building in 2016 at the San Francisco Art Institute. Mark Johnson, a professor of art, crawled into the attic to check the wires. "The place was full of ...

Carlos Villa died in 2013, but palpable traces of his presence remain. There is a black-and-white photograph of his arm, taken some time around 1973, an image whose surface bears a series of feathers ...

Carlos Villa, a Bay Area artist known for his teaching, his activism and for his own continually changing work, died of cancer March 23. He was 76. Mr. Villa taught since 1969 at the San Francisco Art ...

In 1958, 22-year-old Carlos Villa (1936-2013) received a troubling answer to a pressing question. As a young Filipino American student at the San Francisco Art Institute, Villa was curious to know ...