About the Artwork
Artwork by Bjorn Calleja produced in 2020, oil and aerosol on canvas.
About the Artist
Bjorn Calleja (b. 1981) lives and works in Manila, Philippines. He graduated at the Far Eastern University in Manila with degree in Advertising. His works draws on identity, popular culture, art, everyday politics, history and his own life – where no subject remained sacred. Bjorn constantly reinvents his art through various media from paintings, drawings, sculpture, installations, video and design. His works are influenced by 80’s and 90’s popular culture, Manila’s landscape, the internet, kitsch, design, advertising and other artists, playing on the irony of aesthetics, visual narratives and human experience.
Solo exhibitions include Confessions of an Almost Artist at West Gallery (2013); Bubblegum Stories at Secret Fresh Gallery (2012); Eat my Daddy at The Crucible Gallery (2012); Some Failed Attempts in Creating a Good Image for Painting at West Gallery (2011); The Color Bringer at Secret Fresh Gallery (2011) and Fear Made me Do This at Lost Projects (2011). His works have also been shown in various exhibitions in Giant Robot, Manila Contemporary, Pablo Gallery, Blanc Gallery, Distinction Gallery, The Hive Gallery, 1AM and ISM Community.
In 2012, Bjorn co-founded Design. Other Things., a design studio based in Manila and is currently a part time lecturer at the Far Eastern University.
