Born
1983 New Jersey
Lives & Works
Allendale, Michigan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, Society of 23’s Conservatory
2024
Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI, Mr. Society of 23
2021
Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, Society of 23’s Trophy Game Room
2020
FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL, Commercial Break
2018
SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY, Selections from Society of 23's Locker Dressing Room
2012
Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, Public Displays of Affection
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Project for Empty Space, BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY), Cross-Country Mobile Exhibition
2023
South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, Biennial 32
2020
Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA, Guilty Party
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA. STILL HERE // Screen Art Series
2019
FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL, All We Want to See is Ourselves
2018
Kendra Jayne Patrick, East Hampton, NY, Twenty-first Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations; Episode 2: One Liners
2017
Center for Art and Thought, web-based, Queer Horizons
2016
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, FUTURE TALK
2014
University of California, Riverside, Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Queer Sites and Sounds
2013
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, Proximities 3: Import/Export
2012
Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI, Role/Play
Collections
Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy
Permanent Commissions
2025
Corewell Health, Facets #6
2024
Corewell Health, Dancing Through
Corewell Health, Facets #4
2023
Gerald R. Ford International Airport, Facets
2020
Downtown Grand Rapids, Inc., Pride Pad
Temporary Commissions
2025
Saugatuck-Douglas Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, Flower World
2020
Downtown Grand Rapids, Inc., Tropical Realness
Awards & Residencies
2021
Artist in Residence, Mattress Factory
2017
Installation Category Juried Award, ArtPrize
Artist Seed Grant presented by the Frey Foundation, ArtPrize
2012
Nominee, SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2011
Finalist, Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium Writing Fellowship, Art Practical
Teaching Positions
2023
Adjunct, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Contributing Writer
Art21 Blog
Bad At Sports
HuffPost
Hyperallergic
Education
2011
MFA San Francisco Art Institute
2005
BFA Carnegie Mellon University
2000
Summer Cooper Union
Bibliography
2018
Jeffrey Augustine Songco Interview, Asian American Art Oral History Project of DePaul University
2017
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art, University of Washington Press
Selected Press
2024
Stateside Podcast on Michigan Public NPR, The Creative World of Jeffrey Augustine Songco
Grand Rapids Magazine, Artist explores pageant culture through self-portraiture
2023
Gerald R. Ford International Airport, Ford International Airport Selects Local Artist for Aerial Art Installation in Newly Expanded Concourse A
2021
BOMB, I Have Had Enough Conversations To Know That Flowers Sell: Jeffrey Augustine Songco
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ‘Society of 23’ art exhibit explores greatness, identity at the Mattress Factory
Forbes, In Jeffrey Augustine Songco’s America, You Can Be Both A Bro And A Queen
Pittsburgh City Paper, Fictional frat life plays out in Mattress Factory’s “Society of 23's Trophy Game Room”
2020
Newcity Art, Art Top 5: April 2020
2019
Sixty Inches from Center, 7 Reflections & Suggested Sounds
Hyperallergic, The Curdling of American Masculinity in University Frats
2018
W Magazine, The Most-Instagrammed Art of Armory Week 2018
HuffPost, New York’s Scrappiest Art Fair Lives Inside A Corporate High-Rise
Hyperallergic, Spring Break Is an Oasis for Art Fair Haters
ARTnews, A Tour of the 2018 Spring/Break Art Show
The Art Newspaper, New York's March fairs aim to seize market moment
2017
The Daily Beast, How Betsy DeVos Became an Unexpected Champion of LGBTQ Art
artnet, How the New Queer Asian American Criticism Is Shifting the Way We See Art
2016
Detroit Free Press, Discovering the sublime, avoiding the ridiculous at ArtPrize
2014
San Francisco Arts Quarterly, SFAQ Review: "Proximities 3: Import/Export,"
Selected Lectures & Panels
2025
Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2024
Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, MI
2023
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ECPOSI, Chicago, IL
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2021
Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2018
Open Society Foundations, New York, NY
Asian Art Museum and Pilipinx American Library, San Francisco, CA
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Failure Lab, Grand Rapids, MI
Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI
2017
Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Portland, OR
2014
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
2013
Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
2012
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Awesome Childhood Memories That I’ll Never Forget
New Jersey Ballet, Trained in ballet, tap, and jazz, 1988 - 1998
Gypsy, Newsboy, Victor & Violin, Paper Mill Playhouse, 1998
The Nutcracker, Various roles, New Jersey Ballet, 1991 - 1997
North New Jersey Junior Regional Chorus, 1997
Children of Eden, Ensemble, Paper Mill Playhouse, 1997
ACDA National Children's Honor Choir, San Diego Convention Center, 1996
South Pacific, Jerome, Paper Mill Playhouse, 1994