Born
New Jersey, USA
Lives & Works
Allendale, Michigan
Education
MFA San Francisco Art Institute
BFA Carnegie Mellon University
Summer Cooper Union
Training New Jersey Ballet School
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 Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, East Hampton, NY, 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
Public Art & Commissions
2025 Saugatuck-Douglas Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, Flower World
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., Tropical Realness
Downtown Grand Rapids, Inc., Pride Pad
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
Contributing Writer
Art21 Blog
Bad At Sports
HuffPost
Hyperallergic
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
Teaching Positions
2023 Adjunct, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Board Membership
2023-Present Mattress Factory
2019-24 Circle Theatre, Grand Rapids, MI
Selected Theater Credits
2019 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Costume Designer, Circle Theatre
2017 A Chorus Line, Paul, Circle Theatre
1998 Gypsy, Ensemble, Paper Mill Playhouse
1997 Children of Eden, Ensemble, Paper Mill Playhouse
1991-97 The Nutcracker, Various roles, New Jersey Ballet
1994 South Pacific, Jerome, Paper Mill Playhouse