STAFF

JULINA TOGONON
Gallery Director

Julina Togonon co-founded Washington Square Gallery in 1994, where she curated over 80 shows working with leading art historians and art critics. The gallery was known for taking the lead in promoting emerging artists of ethnic backgrounds, and focusing on emerging and established artists primarily from the San Francisco Bay Area and the West Coast. Examples of these shows include: Filipino American Arts Exposition (Loob/Labas) featuring Filipino American Women Artists (1996); Six Asian American Women Artists from the Bay Area (1999); "Not From Concentrate" — emerging Filipino American Artists (1999); West Coast Sculpture (2001); Emerging Latino artists (2002).

In 2004, Julina curated the "Filipino American Art Now" exhibition at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. She has served as Visual Arts editor for A Magazine, an online magazine that focused on Asian American art and culture and has lectured on art collecting and marketing for visual artists. She served as Board Member of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association (SFADA) in 2003-04. During her tenure, she was instrumental in launching the Art & Technology series with Apple's flagship store in downtown San Francisco, which featured SFADA artists. She is currently a board member of the New Pacific Studio (NPS), an international artist residency program with programs in New Zealand and in the U.S.

Prior to her gallery work, Julina worked as a management consultant implementing strategic planning, marketing and fundraising projects. She earned an MBA from San Francisco State University School of Business in 1990 with an emphasis on marketing.

RAFAEL MUSNI
Associate Gallery Director

Rafae Musni is curator for the photography and sculpture exhibitions at Togonon Gallery. His experience in Fine Arts began as an undergraduate in the film program at San Francisco State University where he obtained his degree in Film Theory. He continued post graduate studies in films in Montreal, Canada and Paris, France. He has also served as a docent for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Additionally, Rafael was a founding partner of the Pacific Ethnographic Research Society, which has mounted research expeditions to the island of Mindanao, Philippines. He has curated exhibitions of Philippine traditional art at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco's Zeum and Pusod Gallery in Berkeley, California.