Ian Carlo Jaucian (b.1986) began his peculiar art career in 2008, when he started juggling a life of cultural management, education, and art production. He worked for a university museum longer than the time it took him to earn his bachelor’s degree in painting, subsequently taking a break from art management to actively pursue personal art exhibitions and residencies locally and abroad. After a brief but impactful period of creative self-indulgence, Jaucian again found himself managing art under a commercial gallery where he was simultaneously represented as an artist and employed as staff. The threads of fate certainly entangle as Jaucian has since been short-listed thrice for a yearly national art award which he helped facilitate during his first museum job, wherein two of the three awards he didn’t win were for exhibitions held in the aforementioned commercial gallery, which happens to have been, at the time, located in the exact same space where the gallery (MONO8) hosting the exhibition this bio was written for (and you are currently reading!) is currently located at. Jaucian now works in an art museum within an educational conglomerate that is locally known as ‘the’ rival of the university where he first worked in.