Zeny M. Recidoro Fesh
Curriculum Vitae
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Summary
❋ Awards and Fellowships
Asian Cultural Council Graduate Scholarship Grant, 2018-2020
School of Visual Arts Departmental Scholarship, 2018-2020
Antonio M. Abad Prize for Best Undergraduate Thesis, 2014
University of the Philippines’ National Writers Workshop, Iloilo City, Philippines, September 2024
Burnaway Art Writing Incubator, Online, June - July 2024
❋ Education
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS NEW YORK, New York, NY
MFA Art Writing and Criticism
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES DILIMAN, Quezon City
BA Art Studies
An artist, writer, and dedicated culinary professional with an attention to detail, consistent practice in speed and precision, and passion for delivering exceptional dining experiences to customers. Offers excellent culinary skills in classical techniques and fusion cuisine with a focus on Asian and American flavors. Committed to professional growth and pushing culinary skills to greater heights. Possesses an interest in Art History and Writing, with accomplishments in research fields, which creates a well-rounded dimension to knowledge on world culinary arts and history. An added experience in administrative work extends a capability in managing a team and brigade.
❋ Professional ExperienceStaff Assistant, Mennello Museum of American Art | March 2024 - July 2025
Writer and Executive Assistant, Women in the Arts, Inc. | March 2024 - Present
Office Assistant, School of Visual Arts | May 2019 - 2020
Executive Assistant, Museum Foundation of the Philippines | August 2017 - 2018
Museum Manager, University of the Philippines Heritage Museum | November 2015 - 2017
Gallery Coordinator, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines | June 2014 - August 2015
❋ Culinary ExperienceChef, Kaya Restaurant, Thornton Park, Florida | August 2025 - Present
Kaya, which means “capable” in Filipino, earned Orlando’s first Michelin Green Star for Sustainability for its commitment to community-based engagement in sourcing produce, and ethical and environmental practices with regards to food waste. It also has been named Best Restaurant of the Year by the Orlando Sentinel and was a finalist for the James Beard Best New Restaurant in 2024.
Line Cook, Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts, Orlando, Florida | December 2021 - Present
Ale and Compass Restaurant, Yacht and Beach Club Resort | July 2025 - Present
Grand Floridian Banquets | November 2024 - July 2025
Catering operations. Proficiencies in plated and buffet events, menu planning, plating, and food costs
Magic Kingdom’s Tomorrowland, Cosmic Rays Starlight Restaurant | September 2023 - March 2024
Hollywood Studios’ Brown Derby | February 2022 - September 2023
Flying Fish Restaurant, Boardwalk Resort | December 2021 - February 2022
Prep Cook, Le Cafe New York, New York City | February - December 2021
EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Manila, Philippines | 2009 - 2010
❋ PublicationsBOOKS
I Am a Wound Shrouded in Devotion, 2022.
Iridescence: An Old Wives Tale, 2025.
ESSAYS
“A Tale of Two Sierras: A Profile of Artist Audrey Hope”. Burnaway Magazine 2024 Art Writing Incubator Chapbook: “Process is Critical”. Print, United States of America, November 2024
Love Letter to Laetitia Sonami (Micro Essay). Variable West. Web. January 12, 2021. https://variablewest.com/2021/01/12/love-letter-laetitia-sonami/
Love Letter to Pauline Oliveros (Micro Essay). Variable West. Web. 31 August 2020. https://variablewest.com/2020/08/31/pauline-oliveros/
“First flaneurysm”. Queen Mobs Teahouse. Web. England, 3 September 2019. https://queenmobs.com/2019/09/misfit-doc-first-flaneurysm/
“BALACLAVAS: Pussy Riot, Russia”. Mas Que La Cara: Women, Masks, and Protest. Gantala Press. Philippines, 2020.
“Works-in-Progress: Artistic Practices and Digital Communities”. Writing Presently. Edited by Renan Laru-an. The Philippine Contemporary Art Network. Philippines, December 2020. Digital Version: http://pcan.org.ph/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/writing-presently_color.pdf
“The Acoustics of Solitude: On Éliane Radigue’s Adnos I, II, III.” Anomaly: An International Journal of Literature and the Arts, Issue 30: Writings by Filipino Women. Edited by Kristine Ong Muslim. September 2020. Web: https://anmly.org/ap30/filipino-women-30/zeny-may-d-recidoro/
“Interiority and the Novel: The Tale of Genji at the Metropolitan Museum of Art”. Degree Critical. MFA Art Writing Program Journal, School of Visual Arts. Web. United States of America, 20 April 2019. https://artwriting.sva.edu/journal/post/interiority-and-the-novel-the-tale-of-genji-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art
“Dreaming and Conceiving or, A Case for Folktales”, a review of Raven Chacon’s “Still Life No. 3” for Degree Critical. MFA Art Writing Program Journal, School of Visual Arts. Web. United States of America, 30 November 2018. https://artwriting.sva.edu/journal/post/dreaming-or-conceiving-or-a-case-for-more-folktales
“Spatial Cycles”. Unlikely Journal, the Canceled Issue. Edited by Maia Nichols. Web. La Trobe University, Victorian College of the Arts and University of Melbourne, Australia, May 2018. https://unlikely.net.au/issue-03/spatial-cycles. ISSN 2205-0027
REVIEWS
“Ukombozi: Reclaiming Place and Self at the Dale Mabry Gallery, Tampa”. Burnaway Magazine. Web. Central Florida, 21 March 2025. https://burnaway.org/daily/emukombozi-reclaiming-place-and-self-em-at-the-dale-mabry-gallery-tampa/
Offsite West Space Gallery, Australia. Group show, Points of Connection. “In the Air: On Points of Connection”. Degree Critical. Web. New York City, 4 September 2020. https://artwriting.sva.edu/journal/post/in-the-air-on-points-of-connection
Graham Lambkin. Time Runs Through the Darkest Hour at Blank Forms, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn Rail: Artseen. Print. United States of America, February 2020. Weblink: https://brooklynrail.org/2020/02/artseen/Graham-Lambkin
“The Ear Experiments on Uncertainty: On Éliane Radigue’s Trilogie de la Mort”. Berfrois. Web. England, 7 January 2020. https://www.berfrois.com/2020/01/zeny-may-d-recidoro-on-eliane-radigue/
“The Liberated Mind”, a review of Monsters, Animals and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales edited by Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane, published by Columbia University Press. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Web. Hong Kong, 18 December 2018. https://chajournal.blog/2018/12/18/monsters-animals
“Dark Sunshine in Silay”, a review of Si Betchay at ang Sacred Circle: Ang Lihim ng Nakasimangot na Maskara by Rogelio Braga. Businessworld SparkUp. Web. Philippines, 13 October 2017. https://www.bworldonline.com/dark-sunshine-in-silay/
INTERVIEWS
“A Conversation on Subcultures and Nostalgia at the Orlando Museum of Art”. Burnaway Magazine. Web. United States of America, 26 December 2024. https://burnaway.org/magazine/a-conversation-on-subcultures-and-nostalgia-at-the-orlando-museum-of-art/
“A Vibrant and Free Spirit: An Afternoon with Njeri Kinuthia”. Women in the Arts, Inc. News. Web. Orlando, Florida, 26 April 2024. https://www.womeninthearts.org/women-in-the-arts-news/blog-04032025
“A Little Piece of Heaven”, interview with Christine Sloan Stoddard, on Heaven is a Photograph (2020). TERSE Journal. Web. New York City, 9 September 2020. https://tersejournal.com/2020/09/09/a-little-piece-of-heaven-an-interview-with-christine-sloan-stoddard-by-zeny-may-recidoro
BLOGS
“Persistence and Gratitude in Sustaining a Creative Life”. Women in the Arts, Inc. News. Web. Orlando, Florida, 3 April 2024. https://www.womeninthearts.org/women-in-the-arts-news/blog-04032024
“A Life of Color, Warmth of Home”. Women in the Arts, Inc. News. Web. Orlando, Florida, May 2024. https://www.womeninthearts.org/women-in-the-arts-news/pacita-abad
“A Psychological History of Femininity: A Conversation with Tenee’ Hart, Winner of the 2024 Carlos Malamud Prize”. Women in the Arts, Inc. News. Web. Orlando, Florida, July 2024 https://www.womeninthearts.org/women-in-the-arts-news/a-psychological-history-of-femininity-a-conversation-with-tenee-hart-winner-of-the-2024-carlos-malamud-prize
“25 Variable Stars: Ligia Bouton on the Legacy of Astronomer of Henrietta Swann Leavitt”. Women in the Arts, Inc. News. Web. Orlando, Florida, August 2024. https://www.womeninthearts.org/women-in-the-arts-news/25-variable-stars-ligia-bouton-on-the-legacy-of-astronomer-henrietta-leavitt-swan
POETRY
“Bell in the Rain, a Jungle and Other Poems”. Likhaan: the Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature. Volume 15. University of the Philippines Press, October 2021.
“Recuerdos de Patay or Images of the Dead”. Vastarien— A Literary Journal. Volume 2, Issue 3. Edited by Jon Padgett and Matt Cardin. Grimscribe Press. United States of America, Fall 2019.
“The Tongue is a Shore Where Words Become Stranded”. Berfrois. Web. England, 9 July 2019. https://www.berfrois.com/2019/07/the-tongue-is-a-shore-where-words-become-stranded-by-zeny-may-dy-recidoro/
“(NOT) MY WRITING DESK”. Queen Mobs Teahouse. Web. England, 28 June 2019. https://queenmobs.com/2019/06/not-my-writing-desk-zeny-may-dy-recidoro/
“A Clove Scented Winter”. Terse Journal, Hauntology Issue. Web. United States of America, 4 May 2019. https://tersejournal.com/2019/05/04/a-clove-scented-winter-by-zeny-may-dy-recidoro/
“Eden and Our Habits”. Lontar: A Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. Issue 7. Edited by Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, and Adan Jimenez. Epigram Books. Singapore, November 2016. ISBN 978-4757-77-5
“Poems of an Internet Trawler”. Kritika Kultura. Edited by Mark Anthony Cayanan. Ateneo de Manila University. Philippines, March 2015. ISSN 1656-152x
FICTION
“Evocatoria or, Stories of Grace”. Terse Journal, Hauntology Issue. Web. United States of America, 21 April 2019. https://tersejournal.com/2019/04/21/evocatoria-or-stories-of-grace-by-zeny-may-d-recidoro/
“Two Stories”. Yuan Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing. The University of Hong Kong, School of English. Print. Hong Kong, Winter/Spring 2013. ISSN 2310-7014
“The Great Disappearing Act”. Eastern Heathens: An Anthology of Subverted Asian Folklore. Edited by Ng Yi-Sheng and Amanda Lee Koe. Print. Ethos Books. Singapore, 2013. ISBN 978-981-07-5680-2
“No Eyes Behind Our Heads”. Thursday Never Looking Back. Edited by Adam David. E-book. The Youth and Beauty Brigade. Philippines, December 2012. ASIN B00AU21X9A