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PJ Gubatina Policarpio is a cultural leader and creative collaborator — an educator, curator, programmer and community organizer — at the forefront of art and social justice. With over 10 years of experience in museum education, public programming, youth development and art administration, PJ has led innovative, rigorous, and social justice-centered initiatives that advocate for artists, scholars, and communities of all kinds. He has worked at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, Queens Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum, where he was a Fellow in Museum Education. As the inaugural manager of youth development at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, PJ developed and led a portfolio of transformative programs and partnerships that engaged diverse audiences.

PJ has organized exhibitions and programming including Notes for Tomorrow (Independent Curators International, 2021-Present), Notes on Cultural Evidence (slash art, 2023), Conversations on Carlos Villa: World-Making and Cross-Cultural Solidarity (Asian Art Museum, 2022), Tarsal by Metatarsal (Headlands Center for the Arts, 2021), Solidarity Struggle Victory (Southern Exposure, 2019), Rally: Queer Art and Activism Now (Dixon Place, 2017), bringing together artists, writers, poets, scholars, activists and collectives whose practices challenge power and representation. His writing has appeared in Viewfinder: Journal for Museum Education, Art21 Magazine, Art Practical, and American Craft. PJ has presented lectures and keynotes at Portland State University’s School of Art and Design, California College of the Arts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, University of California at Berkeley, The New School, School of the Art Institute Chicago, among others. PJ is co-founder of Pilipinx American Library, an itinerant library and programming platform dedicated to diasporic Filipinx perspectives. His publications are in the collection of the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Born in the Philippines, PJ immigrated to the United States in his early teens. He lives and works between San Francisco and New York City, the Ramaytush Ohlone and Lenape homelands.