
Corinne de San Jose
Bio

Corinne de San Jose (b. Bacolod, Philippines;lives and works in Manila, Philippines) is an interdisciplinary artist and award‑winning film sound designer. Her practice spans photography‑based processes such as printmaking and video, as well as installations, kinetic sculptures, and sound‑generating works. Often employing found objects and outmoded forms of communication, she juxtaposes them with current or imagined technologies to build new systems of storytelling.
Her work engages complex processes and repetition to examine the female body and gaze, while exploring domesticity and habitation within systemic cultural values. Silence recurs as a central theme, treated not as absence but as material. She is currently researching narratives that intersect with anthropological mysticism and alternative healing practices, alongside an interest in the gaps and silences of early Philippine media history.
De San Jose’s parallel career in film sound design has garnered multiple awards, including four Gawad Urian citations for Best Sound. In 2024 she was awarded a Visual Artist Fellowship by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and a six-month New York Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council. She has presented her work in exhibitions in Manila, New York, and Berlin, situating her practice within an expanded dialogue on sound, materiality, cultural histories, and systems of perception.
Selected Works
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Video
Selected Exhibitions
Selected Press
- The Tenacity of Sound: Artists working with sound in the Philippines
- Meet sound designer Corinne de San Jose
- Asian Cultural Council: 2023 Grantee Announcement
- Reparative Rememberings: Corinne de San Jose Reincarnates a Lost Film
- This show brings to life the lost ‘Dalagang Bukid,’ the first Filipino-made film
- See How Artists Construct and Deconstruct Spaces In This Gallery Show
- Corinne De San Jose Made Art by Repeating Herself
- Picture Roundup: Paris Photo 2013
- Corinne de San Jose imitates life in photography