Manalo has been showing her work internationally since 1999. Her work is a part of numerous private and public collections including the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, the permanent collections of the US Embassies in Bulgaria, Kazakhtsan and Nepal to name a few. Her work has been shown at the McLean Project for the Arts, Arlington Art Center, Maryland Art Place, the Katzen Arts Center, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art and has been the subject of group and solo shows in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia and New York. She was featured in New American Paintings in 2004 and 2006 and was awarded a Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2008, 2009 and 2011 with support from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation for 2009. Manalo's work is included in the Drawing Center and White Columns curated artist registries.
She has taught at American University’s Art Department for ten years. As an educator and advocate for the process of making art, she created runs a web journal, The Studio Visit, that features artists in their studios. It continues to expand its coverage and grow as a non-profit entity. Her work is represented in Washington D.C. by Addison Ripley Fine Art. She serves on the Visual Arts Committee at the District of Columbia Arts Center. Manalo received her MFA in Painting from Yale University, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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