Terry Acebo Davis is a Filipino American artist and nurse
Education
Born in Oakland, California, the oldest of six children, Acebo Davis gained a Bachelor of Science from California State University, Hayward in 1976, followed by graduate coursework in nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1991 she was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts by San Jose State University, followed by an Master of Fine Arts in 1993.
Career
Born in Oakland, California, Acebo-Davis received her artistic education at San Jose State University before choosing to balance her artistic work with a career as a professional nurse In 2004 she became the first Filipino American to exhibit art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco"s Samsung Hall. Her art is thematically linked to her family and her origins as a Filipino American.
The same year, she participated in the exhibition Families: Rebuilding, Recreating, Reinventing hosted by Flo Oy Wong at the Euphrat Museum of Artist
A year later, Acebo Davis began a residency at the Frans Masereel Centre in Kasterlee, Belgium. Rather than become a full-time artist, she chose to balance this with work as a professional nurse, serving as Pediatric Critical Care Transport Specialist at Stanford Medical Center as of 1998.
In 2003 Acebo Davis was awarded one of the three annual Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships, and she became the first Filipino American to exhibit art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco"s Samsung Hall, where her piece Tabing Rising, visually describing her family"s immigration to the United States in 1945, was displayed in 2004. In 2010, she served as Chairwoman of the Palo Alto Public Art Commission, continuing in this role into 2011.