Lk Rigor interfaces with art by way of text, research, curation, and administration.


She engages in projects that allow for conversation, critique, and play, with partiality towards those that touch on archival photographs, publishing, or knowledge production.

As an independent researcher, her current focus is finding women photographers in the Philippines who were active in the post-World War II era from 1946 to 1960s. This project was supported by the Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund of the Humboldt Area Foundation + Wild Rivers Community Foundation (2023-2025). She has presented portions of this research in Fotomoto Atelier (2026), Calle Wright (2025) and in the now-defunct artist-run space Baraks (2024) as part of her residency.

As an art worker in Manila, she wears many hats: coordinator at the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation, curatorial & operations lead at artbooks.ph, editor at Writing Foto, project manager at 98B COLLABoratory, project assistant at Alfredo F. Tadiar Library, among others. She has also contributed to Cartellino, ArtAsiaPacific, and TheCollector.

In 2024, she was part of an exchange program for art practitioners organized by Taiwan Art Space Alliance and Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation. In 2025, she attended Writing as Infrastructure: Workshops for Arts Professionals in Para Site, Hong Kong.

Finally, she is at the last stretch of finishing her master’s degree in Art Studies (Curatorial Studies) in University of the Philippines Diliman.

Bio updated May 2, 2026