Artists.

Artwork, Biographies and Careers

Jay Francisco

Jay FranciscoBIOGRAPHY This series of paintings by Jay Francisco is inspired by branching out of his comfort zone, personally and artistically. His main focus is to encourage growth and abundance in his works and other aspects of his life, and for real growth to take...

Dennis Occeňa

Dennis James OcceňaBIOGRAPHY “Oftentimes, the ideas of my crafts come from nothing,” says artist Dennis James Occeña. “It’s ironic, but creative ideas appear after my brush on the canvas has been laid, and I can’t explain it.” Dennis discovered his artistic gifts at...

Gabe Naguiat

Gabe NaguiatBIOGRAPHY Gabe Naguiat (b. 1984) is a visual artist from Quezon City, Philippines."My work aims to raise the viewer's awareness of the multi-layered nature of our reality. I draw inspiration from graphic design, quantum physics, metaphysics, ancient...

Veejay Villafranca

Veejay VillafrancaBIOGRAPHY Veejay Villafranca was born in Manila. He started out in journalism as a staff photographer for the national news magazine Philippines Graphic. After becoming a freelancer in 2006, he worked with several international news wire agencies...

Jinggoy Buensuceso

Jinggoy BuensucesoJinggoy Buensuceso is a Visual Artist and Sculptor based in the Philippines.BIOGRAPHY His work evokes stories and bold statements of oneself, culture, and way of life through the use of clean lines with organic forms – the push and the pull. He is a...

Dex Ferndandez

Dex FernandezBIOGRAPHY Dex Fernandez is an interdisciplinary graffiti artist whose eccentric designs and neon-colored installations challenge the notions of high and low art.Based in the Philippines, Fernandez is best known for his iconic street art character...

Agnes Arellano

Agnes ArellanoBIOGRAPHY The sacred and the mythical, the physical and the erotic, the magical and the mundane, the religious and the profane, and music and song all permeate the art of Filipina artist Agnes Arellano. Drawing from rich personal experience and an...

Julian Udine

Julian UdineBIOGRAPHY Julian Udine (b. 1994) is a visual artist based in Manila, Philippines. She graduated from a Bi-College program with degrees in BA Fine Arts with Haverford College, and in BA Psychology with Bryn Mawr College.Julian primarily works in mixed media...

Is Jumalon

Is JumalonBIOGRAPHY Is Jumalon’s recurring subject of shadowy, atmospheric forests urge us to enter them, get lost within the branches, such that we forget that these are markings on sheets of paper.Yet the dark, grainy, velvety textures remind us that charcoal is...

Katrina Bello

Katrina BelloHer drawings are informed by observations and experiences of natural environments encountered during the course of travels and migration.BIOGRAPHY Born in Davao City, Philippines 1973, Katrina Bello is a visual artist who lives and works in Metro Manila...

Christina Dy

Christina DyBIOGRAPHY Christina Dy is an artist that continues to push the boundaries of drawing, has been creating large-scale charcoal and graphite works that are part drawing, performance, and installation.She also focuses on the drawing surface itself, paper, and...

RA Tijing

RA (Roderick) TijingRA Tijing is a self taught painter & toy designer. His works have been exhibited in various museums and galleries in the Philippines like Ayala Museum, BenCab Museum, and Pinto Museum BIOGRAPHY A graduate of University of St. La Salle Bacolod...

Darel Javier

Darel JavierDarel Javier grew up and raised by a family of artist, and graduated in B.S. Architecture in La Consolacion College.BIOGRAPHY “My artwork is an expression of what I feel inside of me. I have a lot of inspirations behind my art, like the people who believe...

Lean Reboja

Lean RebojaLean Reboja, whose works have been attributed towards illustration art more than just traditional painting, have created works in formal art settings such as galleries and pop up art exhibition venues in the local scene.BIOGRAPHY Lean Reboja, was born in...

Yanna

YannaYanna is a young and emerging visual artist based in Antipolo.BIOGRAPHY Her paintings evoke dreamlike states and figures, inspired by Pop Surrealism.Despite being a fresh face, Yanna is unafraid to dive deep into her subconscious and dexterity, which then enables...

Angelo Quintos

Angelo QuintosAngelo Quintos has a passion for creating the beautiful, the creative, and the memorable. That is what an artist does-takes a vision and transforms it into an exceptional work of art.BIOGRAPHY Angelo Quintos is a Manila bred artist expressing his...

Tita Halaman

Tita HalamanDark, melancholic figures coupled with loud, textured strokes of paint overlapping it’s frame is an easily recognizable style from Tita Halaman.BIOGRAPHY “Paintings with poems”, Tita Halaman is unlike any other visual artist. A young figurative...

Roan Alvarez

Roan AlvarezThe works of Roan Alvarez look into the identity inside the contemporary hyper-mediated world, specifically inquiring on the negotiation of identities between the physical and the virtual realm.BIOGRAPHY Roan Alvarez (b. 1995) earned her Bachelor of Fine...

Frelan Gonzaga

Frelan GonzagaFrelan Gonzaga, or Pakz to family and friends, is an all-around creative person.BIOGRAPHY Born in Bacolod City, Philippines, Frelan Gonzaga is a musician and used to play in a local band, learned the technical skills needed to be a photographer, and then...

Cris Villanueva Jr.

Cris Villanueva Jr.Considered as one of the most hardworking and innovative artists of today, Cris Villanueva Jr.’s works draw ideas from commonplace objects, classical and popular culture, literature, art, history and his own life.BIOGRAPHY Cris Villanueva Jr....

Chalk Zaldivar

Chalk Zaldivar Chalk Zaldivar presents a satirical take on social and political issues using exaggerated imagery and humorous text. BIOGRAPHY Chalk Zaldivar developed a distinct, recognizable visual language that makes light out of dark situations. His long...

Wipo

Wipo Wipo's body of work ranges from abstraction, collaborations, conceptual and experimental; references and ideas from episodic memory, uncertainty and perception. BIOGRAPHY Wipo uses a variety of materials and mediums, processes and methodology depends on curation,...

Eunice Vergara

Eunice Vergara Eunice Vergara (b. 1994), draws inspiration from street culture and art and urban landscapes. BIOGRAPHY Eunice Vergara uses her inspirations to produce works that involve public intervention and community engagement. Eunice’s exposure and enthusiasm in...

Pam Quinto

Pam QuintoPam Quinto’s practice articulates a sense of intimacy and vulnerability in which remnants ofmemory, sympathy to the human psyche, and thematics of the feminine are seen and felt.BIOGRAPHY Pam Quinto (b. 1991, Quezon City) graduated with a Bachelor's degree...

Celine Lee

Celine LeeCeline Lee’s body of work revolves around rudimentary scientific and mathematical concepts and principles in an attempt to understand contemporaneity. She views art as she would science - a perpetual quest for knowledge.BIOGRAPHY Celine Lee (b. 1993,...

Elias Miles Villanueva

Elias Miles VillanuevaElias Miles Villanueva finds inspiration in the mundane and incorporates what he sees from his surroundings into his artworks.BIOGRAPHY Elias Miles Villanueva is a visual artist from Antipolo City.His works are heavily influenced by occurrences...

Jed Gregorio

Jed GregorioJed Gregorio's artistic practice encompasses photography, filmmaking, installation, and performance.BIOGRAPHY Jed Gregorio (b. 1990) is a Filipino artist based in Manila, Philippines.His artistic practice encompasses photography, filmmaking, installation,...

TG Villanueva

TG VillanuevaTG Villanueva is a self-taught artist. He began with painting, before transitioning to photography and collage.BIOGRAPHY TG Villanueva (b. 1989) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Manila, Philippines.TG Villanueva is a self-taught artist. He began...

A.LIEN

A.lien (Neil Arvin Javier)A lover of the sound, noise, and the streets' grit, A.lien (Neil Arvin Javier) does not seek fame but recognition.BIOGRAPHY NEIL ARVIN JAVIER also kown by his street moniker A.Lien, is a street noise sound-maker.An art vigilante’ who utilizes...

Victoria Fabella

Victoria FabellaVictoria Fabella's autobiographical approach to art births visual diaries of melancholy and daily life weariness.BIOGRAPHY Victoria Fabella (b. 1999) is an artist whose works explore the mosaic nature of humanity fashioned and molded by memory and...

Bea Aspiras

Bea AspirasBea Aspiras takes inspiration from the stories she accumulates from her unending pursuit to connect with people through art.BIOGRAPHY Because of her sincerity for introspection and eagerness to learn, she paints to explore the individual subjectivity of...

Bea Policarpio

Bea PolicarpioBea Policarpio is a Filipina artist who spills colors where words fail.BIOGRAPHY Bea Policarpio is a Filipina artist who spills colors where words fail.With heavy-handed impasto strokes deftly applied, Policarpio’s art often represents dreamlike...

0270501

0270501In the days of celebrity in art where the artistʼs lifestyle becomes a motif, an extension of the artwork itself, 0270501 cultivates an aura of secrecy further exploring the notions of obscurity that the world and the internet landscape provided.BIOGRAPHY...

Koki Lxx

Koki Lxx Koki Lxx is an independent art critic, curator and artist who works and lives in Quezon City. BIOGRAPHY Koki Lxx is an independent art critic, curator and artist who works and lives in Quezon City. Koki Lxx has been part of group exhibitions since 2018, and...

Marija Vicente

Marija Vicente With a long practice grounded in drawing, the scenic oil paintings of Marija Vicente are inspired by beauty, sadness, longing, trauma, sex, comedy, and a peculiar poorness of the spirit. BIOGRAPHY Marija Vicente (b. 1988) is a visual artist working in...

Yolanda Tabanera

Yolanda TabaneraThe work of Yolanda Tabanera is intensely introspective, focusing on the visionary exploration of an interior space that is expressed in a language of its own.BIOGRAPHY Yolanda Tabanera. Born in Madrid in 1965. Studies of Literature and Fine Arts in...

Jigger Cruz

Jigger Cruz Created by using techniques such as impasto, cutting, burning and spraying paint on the canvas and frames, Jigger Cruz's paintings are an investigation of the materiality of painting.BIOGRAPHY Jigger Cruz is a leading Filipino artist who has gained...

Marlo Montoya

Marlo Montoya Marlo Montoya's artistic investigation is a sort of archaeology of web images. BIOGRAPHY Marlo Montoya's artistic investigation is a sort of archaeology of web images. Marlo Montoya was born in Pereira, Colombia, in 1986. He moved to Barcelona, Spain, at...

Miguel Puyat

Miguel PuyatThe works of Miguel Puyat explore the use of found objects, mostly found or reclaimed wood through assemblages and collages.BIOGRAPHY Miguel Puyat's works are often influenced by subcultures and how they struggled to exist. His works are primarily...

Erick Encinares

Erick EncinaresThroughout his other career as an artist, Erick Encinares has taken the role of custodian for memorabilia and other collectibles, as he continues to champion the culture of music and its related media from both the local and international...

Jon Red

Jon RedThe common themes in the art of Jon Red include word works, social commentary, and satire.BIOGRAPHY Jon Red studied painting and visual arts at the Philippine High School for the Arts and University of the Philippines.Red attended a film workshop at the...

Jason Moss

Jason MossJason Moss works across painting, sculpture & installations, often juggling with a range of multiple themes and subject matter mostly concerning the human condition and how its immediate environment lends itself using a confluence of camp, pop culture,...

Cris Villanueva

Cris Villanueva Cris Villanueva disregards the non-objective representation of subjects but concentrates instead on creating works of iconic power. BIOGRAPHY Considered as one the most hardworking and innovative artists of today, Cris Villanueva Jr.’s works draw ideas...

Bjorn Calleja

Bjorn Calleja"With the play of distances, Bjorn Calleja creates a choreography out of viewership: his paintings ask us to stand from afar, to step closer, then step farther again. This new work makes a rhythm out of scale. While the humanoid forms are always...

Bembol Dela Cruz

Bembol Dela CruzBembol Dela Cruz has been publicly exhibiting his photorealistic paintings since 2000, increasingly engaging the concept of tattoos and other objects as surface, skin and sign. BIOGRAPHY Born in 1976 in Metro Manila, Bembol Dela Cruz is a...

Pablo Milicua

Pablo MilicuaThe work of Pablo Milicua deals with the gathering and transformation of cultural objects in a process of destruction and creation, archeology and alchemy. Milicua uses founded images and objects to construct new narratives in the realm of the fantastic...

Redd Nacpil

Redd NacpilBlack and white are light and shadow, known and unknown. we need both to perceive. it is in the balancing of this duality that I find sensibility.BIOGRAPHY Redd Nacpil was a finalist in the Shell National Students Art Competitions (NSAC) of 2005 and 2006...

Greys Lockheart

Greys LockheartGreys Lockheart's practice explores the obscure ways of nature and society; folkloric-ridden motifs; gender roles; and the idea of home as a living thing. She views household textiles a setting for communication and social relationships. By merging...

Olive Gloria

Olive GloriaOlive Gloria is a cultural worker and a visual artist whose practice is grounded on the weaving and embroidery traditions of indigenous peoples of the Visayas.BIOGRAPHY (B 1975) Olive Gloria is a cultural worker and a visual artist whose practice is...

Gab Ferrer

Gab FerrerGab Ferrer started out exploring the confines of carving rubber from relief printing and is now further exploring materials intended for commercial use such as receipt paper, newsprint, and kraft paper.BIOGRAPHY Gab Ferrer (b. 1993) is a Quezon City based...

Angela Silva

Angela SilvaAngela Silva explores identity, memory, time and place to create layers of nuance and meaning. She uses printmaking, mixed-media collage and image transfers to convey an “antiquarian sensibility.” She also makes artist books as a structural form to expand...

Pow Martinez

Pow MartinezPow Martinez is a Manila-based interdisciplinary artist. His practice ranges from traditional media such as painting to sound and sculptural installations.BIOGRAPHY Pow Martinez is an artist based in Manila who is well known for his bold use of color...

Roy Veneracion

Roy Veneracion Roy Veneracion is an influential painter whose work explores a wide range of styles, techniques, materials, and subject matter. He is considered as one of the leading Abstract artists in the Philippines and the precursor of contemporary Aesthetic...

Bud Omeng

Bud OmengWhat inspires Bud Omeng is everything around him. The natural balance of things. He appreciates contrast. Beauty and ugliness. Holiness and abomination. The saint and the fiend. Plain and the obscene.BIOGRAPHY Bud Omeng is a self-taught artist who was born in...

Lyle Buencamino

Lyle Buencamino Lyle Buencamino is known for his large-scale paintings based on movie stills produced by the now-defunct LVN Productions in the 1950's - what is often referred to as the 'Golden Age' in Filipino cinema. BIOGRAPHY Lyle Buencamino (b. 1978) graduated...

Mariano Batocabe

Mariano BatocabeThe art of Mariano Batocabe deals with the precariousness and anxiety of living within a set of rules, both in situations that are private and public.BIOGRAPHY Mariano Batocabe is an Artist-Curator based in the Philippines. Through mediums of drawing,...

Zeus Bascon

Zeus BasconHis interdisciplinary practice involves the transmutation of form – extracting elements from past works and integrating them with new layers and presentation strategies in order to establish connections between the internal and external; the logistics of...

Katherine Nunez

Katherine NunezThe works of Katherine Nunez are extracted from personal everyday encounters with the demands of contemporary life. Her works venture on abstract themes such as mortality, desire, relationships and identity which she connects to the global, picnoleptic,...

Mio Aseremo

Mio AseremoThrough intimate and introspective inquiries into physical space, Mio Aseremo hopes to also transform the viewer from a ‘thinking’ to an ‘actualizing’ state.BIOGRAPHY Mio Aseremo (b. 1992) is primarily a conceptual painter, but has found himself exploring...

Jef Carnay

Jef Carnay"My works gyrate around the possibilities of alternative narratives, exploring the concept of what is seen against what is being experienced."BIOGRAPHY "My works gyrate around the possibilities of alternative narratives, exploring the concept of what is seen...

Rymnd Gev

Rymnd GevRymnd Gev's artworks are deeply rooted in his love of 90s Pop Culture. Video games, movies, retro toys have greatly influenced his art style. BIOGRAPHY Rymnd Gev's artworks are deeply rooted in his love of 90s Pop Culture. Rymnd Gev is A multidisciplinary...

Gerardo “Gerry” Tan

Gerardo "Gerry" Tan Gerardo Tan’s works deals with issues of representation and conceptual plays. He recreates images culled from the world of art and mass media using a variety of mediums in order to subvert hierarchies and give way to new itinerant meanings....

Manuel Ocampo

Manuel OcampoManuel Ocampo is known for his frequent and strategic stylistic drifts in response to new contexts and subject matter. His shows are often constructed around contradictory tendencies, elaborating discrepancies between what a painting appears to be and how...

Arvin Santos

Arvin SantosArvin Santos is a full-time contemporary artist based in Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.BIOGRAPHY Arvin Santos (b.1996) is an artist based in Bocaue, Bulacan and a graduate from the University of the East, Caloocan. His devotion to the arts ignited his...

Dahlia Macatangay

Dahlia MacatangayDahlia Macatangay (b. 1999) is a Los Angeles-based, contemporary artist whose work explores nostalgia, American culture, and drivers of consumerism.BIOGRAPHY Heavily influenced by branding, advertising, pop art, and popular culture, Dahlia’s pieces...

Jun-Jun Sta. Ana

Jun-Jun Sta. AnaJun-Jun Sta. Ana is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Manila, Philippines. His artistic practice is heavily process-based and involves utilizing found images and materials while also having a fondness for replication.BIOGRAPHY Sta. Ana’s recent...

Alfonso Recto

Alfonso RectoAlfonso Recto (b. 1985) is a visual artist born and working in Manila, Philippines. BIOGRAPHY Alfonso Recto (b. 1985) is a visual artist born and working in Manila, Philippines. He is a graduate of the University of the Philippines, School of Fine Arts...

Sam Penaso

Sam PenasoSam Penaso is a multi-disciplinary artist from Guindulman Bohol. He finished his Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree Major in Advertising at Technological University of the Philippines. His works include traditional painting, sculpture, performance, and hybrid...

Fitz Herrera

Fitz HerreraFitz Herrera, a dedicated abstract artist, was born in Caloocan, and raised in Nueva Vizcaya until highschool and then relocated again to Manila for his college education. It can be said that his initiation and exposure to partly rural and then city life...

Ian Inoy

Ian InoyIan Inoy (b. 1996) is a gender-fluid multidisciplinary artist from the Philippines whose works motivate environmental awareness and human embodiment all through different disciplines.BIOGRAPHY Ian's style and technique in retrospect is a marriage between...

Mac Valdezco

Mac ValdezcoValdezco is known for her adventurous experimentation with the use of different media in her sculptural works. BIOGRAPHY Known for her adventorous experimentation with the use of different media in her sculptural works Valdezco also works with yarn straws...

Lui Gonzales

Lui Gonzales Lui Gonzales was one of the delegates who represented the Philippines for the ASEAN Youth Camp for Visual Arts in 2010 held in Hanoi, Vietnam. She has been actively participating in exhibits locally and abroad.BIOGRAPHY Lui Gonzales (b. 1993) is a...

Aleth Ocampo

Aleth OcampoOcampo sculpts functional vessels, to which she merges her experience in painting.BIOGRAPHYA chef by profession, Aleth juggles her time between kitchen duties and making art in her home studio. Aleth Ocampo was born on 04 April 1965 to Lamberto Un Ocampo...

Peter Yuill

Peter Yuill His work is an exploration of the philosophical and existential desire to understand the meaning of existence through mathematical and geometric purity. BIOGRAPHYPeter Yuill was born in 1984 in Ottawa, Canada. He Graduated from Sheridan College in Toronto,...

Nasser Lubay

Nasser Lubay As with all stories that are told, heard and are gone unless told again, the art of Nasser Lubay has that feeling of a moment, that mystical, magical point in space remarkable for its lack of permanence. BIOGRAPHY Nasser Lubay (b. 1982) is a storyteller...

Rosit Mulyadi

Rosit MulyadiRosit explores the nature of self-presentation online: construction of identity through the mediated screen of our digital devices.BIOGRAPHY (b. 1988, Bantul, Yogyakarta) Rosit Mulyadi graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Institut Seni...

Eugene Jarque

Eugene Jarque Eugene Jarque creates forms in his exploration of texture and shapes, order and balance while experimenting with different media in his works.BIOGRAPHY Jarque is a 2006 Thirteen Artist Awardee of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)Eugene Jarque,...

Dini Nur Aghnia

Dini Nur AghinaDini Nur Aghnia turns her gaze to the wider landscapes of her surrounding environment and the unique, ephemeral wonders underlying in each moment in the day from dawn to dusk. BIOGRAPHY (b. 1995, Indonesia) Based in Yogyakarta, Dini Nur Aghnia looks to...

Art Tavera

Art TaveraAlways inspired by his urban explorations, Art Tavera’s trademark bold font and colour palette can be found all over Jakarta and Metro Manila as large-scale mural and graffiti paintings.BIOGRAPHY Always inspired by his urban explorations, Art Tavera’s...

Veronica Peralejo

Veronica Peralejo Veronica’s practice aims to bridge the gap between intellect and emotion.BIOGRAPHY Peralejo's works, in essence, are inspired by the strange, unusual, and exciting textures and forms found in our universe. She finds interest in the minuscule details...

Lesley-Anne Cao

Lesley-Anne Cao Lesley-Anne Cao’s work is a series of processes and divergent practices that revolve around art-making, the exhibition, and fiction.BIOGRAPHY Cao holds a BFA from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts - Diliman.Lesley-Anne Cao’s work...

Miguel Lorenzo Uy

Miguel Lorenzo Uy Miguel Lorenzo Uy works with different mediums from painting to photography and sculpture to video BIOGRAPHY Uy works revolve around immediate concerns with regard to beliefs, technology, and media. Miguel Lorenzo Uy (born 1993) is an artist working...

Jel Suarez

Jel Suarez Jel Suarez's practice is anchored on collage as an act of excavation, beginning with a hunt for materials ripe with narrative. BIOGRAPHY Jel gathers fragments of their histories as a form of creative inquiry. In mining these collections and cutting parts of...

Jan Balquin

Jan BalquinJan Balquin's practice heavily involves mimicry and material manipulation to a degree that alludes to the certain absurdities within and around the artist’s purview..BIOGRAPHY Balquin earned her BFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Philippines...

Poklong Anading

Poklong AnadingPoklong Anading’s practice utilizes a wide range of media from drawing, painting, video, installation, photography and object-making. BIOGRAPHY Taking a more process-oriented and conceptual approach, Poklong's continuing inquiry takes off from issues on...

Miguel Nañawa

Miguel NañawaThrough the years, Miguel has worked mainly in acrylic and pen and ink, and, with each of these mediums, has tried to create art for those who have similar lives to his. BIOGRAPHY There is art in the ordinary - scenes, faces, everyday objects, pets,...

Marionne Contreras

Marionne ContrerasAs a self-taught visual artist, Marionne Contreras draws influences and knowledge of materials from the experience she gained from her trysts with different fields – taking up Doctor of Dental Medicine in College, and then Fashion Design, until...

Ana Victoria Montinola

Ana Victoria MontinolaThe art of Ana Victoria Montinola draws influence from analytical cubism and abstract expressionism. BIOGRAPHY Her art is an attempt to use color, texture, and form in creating visually stimulating images while experimenting with spontaneity and...

Jason Montinola

Jason MontinolaEngrossed with encyclopedias of paintings as a child, Jason Montinola works with his subconscious and reinvents a visual language that is deeply rooted in the past but imbibed with the strangeness and familiarity of today.BIOGRAPHY Set in intricate...

Paolo Icasas

Paolo IcasasPaolo Icasas' paintings are inspired by work, often manual labour, by the daily struggles of the common man, by the uncertainties that always go with living, and by man’s universal longing for rest.BIOGRAPHY Often painting scenes from the locales where he...

Leeroy New

Leeroy NewLeeroy New is a Manila-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice overlaps and intersects with diﬀerent creative industries: fashion, filmmaking, theater, public installations, product design, and performance.BIOGRAPHY This inclination to harness...

Quiccs

QuiccsQuiccs - an illustrator, toy designer, and a graffiti artist, has his deeply rooted style in his love for Japanese Robot Culture and Hip-hop Influences since his childhood days.BIOGRAPHY He currently co-owns and is the Creative Director for the commercial design...

Kiko Escora

Kiko EscoraKiko Escora is a prolific artist that cannot be placed in a single box. He is easily able to use different mediums in creating his art – from paintings and sculptures, to fashion, installation, and graphic design.BIOGRAPHY The works of Kiko Escora are based...

Renato Jojo Barja

Renato "Jojo" BarjaRenato "Jojo" Barja's works are inspired by the comic book illustrations he read as a child. Besides his paintings, he also creates resin sculptures after the vinyl toys he also collects. With these childhood references as his muses, Jojo portrays...

Egg Fiasco

Egg FiascoHis works are convergence of several influences, not only urban art but also from pop culture, folk arts, comic graphics, toys and tattoo culture.BIOGRAPHY Egg Fiasco got enamored in the risky frenzy of wall tagging and graffiti. He admitted in an interview,...

Auggie Fontanilla

Auggie FontanillaAuggie's artistic practice is heavily influenced by Street Art and tattoo culture meshed with Filipino religious heritage. BIOGRAPHY Auggie Fontanilla's roots can be traced back to his days of graffiti and sticker slapping, which he still maintains.A...

Anna Bautista

Anna Bautista Her artistic process involves creating her own references for her paintings and incorporating iconic trademarks such as Gucci and Louis Vuitton - a reflection on society's obsession with materialism.BIOGRAPHY Anna Bautista is a young artist based in...

Ciane Xavier

Ciane XavierThrough pop culture, Ciane Xavier explores the boundaries of today’s society, touching upon globalization and the distractions of the millennial era. BIOGRAPHY Originally from a small town in the countryside of southern Brazil, one of Ciane Xavier’s first...

Tammy de Roca

Tammy de RocaTammy cites Elaine Navas and Mark Rothko as recent influences and such is clear in her latest works especially in terms of texture and flow.BIOGRAPHYTammy De Roca (b.1995, Manila) is a visual artist whose works explore how textures build images through...

Jonas Eslao

Jonas EslaoUsing abstract biomorphic forms in bright and vivid colors, his works would often portray the irony between the aesthetics and horror in the images and context of his subjects. BIOGRAPHYJonas Eslao (b. 1984) has exhibited extensively since 2007. His works...

Yasuhiro Hara

Yasuhiro HaraYasuhiro Hara strives to continue to create works that manifest from the connection between his physical being and the physicality of the canvas and the materials. BIOGRAPHYYasuhiro Hara was born in Hyogo Prefecture, 1983. He is the founder of the gallery...

Chico Cristobal

Chico CristobalChico carries over his vintage-retro aesthetic to his works on canvas, playing with the juxtaposition of geometry and the natural form. BIOGRAPHYChico Cristobal is a Manila and Sydney based Artist. He has a background in Interior Design, and through...

Denise Heredia

Denise HerediaStradling painting and sculpture, Denise Heredia's works are highly textural paintings that appeal in principle both to the senses of sight and of touch.BIOGRAPHYStradling painting and sculpture, Denise Heredia's works are highly textural paintings that...

Gabby Prado

Gabby PradoGabby's aesthetic unites paint and design with strokes of abandon and constraints of composition.BIOGRAPHYGabby Prado’s works are expressions of emotion-impulsive, spontaneous pouring and gestures of hands on canvas; her art invokes a range of approaches...

Mina Katsuki

Mina KatsukiMina Katsuki confronts her work with honesty to be able to accept the reality of living in the present. BIOGRAPHYMina Katsuki Born in Fukuoka, 1989 attained her B.F.A in Art and Design in Kyushu Sangyo University (2014) and her M.F.A. Painting in Kyoto...

Geremy Samala

Geremy Samala Geremy Samala establishes the structural discourse of painting as he fragments universal time and space, and inevitably, it's illusion.BIOGRAPHYGeremy Samala's works, collides various techniques of abstraction and representation in the use of grids,...

Jem Magbanua

Jem MagbanuaGrounded firmly in the practice of drawing, Jem Magbanua's work explores the nature of place, of human beings in place, and of the structures organic and artificial- that shape (human) nature. BIOGRAPHYJem Magbanua earned her degree in Fine Arts from the...

Robert Langenegger

Robert LangeneggerRobert Langenegger is a painter whose art has deliberately gone against moral conformity and academic technique, using images as carnivalesque allegory.BIOGRAPHY Robert Langenegger frequently revisits and makes references to the art historical canon...

Romeo Lee

Romeo LeeRomeo Lee personifies the fluxus of artistic activity in Manila.BIOGRAPHY Romeo Lee is a local icon whose persona is a remarkable blend of artist, musician, patron, connoisseur, collector, promoter, pimp, and punk, while remaining oblivious to the tentacular...

Jayson Oliveria

Jayson OliveriaLike most works that straddle along the discourse of the end of art, the works have an internal logic to them that only the artist could explain – if it can be teased. BIOGRAPHY Jayson Oliveria applies end game strategies for making paintings and...

Argie Bandoy

Argie BandoyBandoy utilizes spontaneously conceived images, multi-layered accidents and abstractions to poke symbolic fun at modern history.BIOGRAPHY Argie Bandoy works mainly with paint on canvas but will often include some kind of detritus to ground the paintings...

Buboy Cañafranca

Buboy CañafrancaMeat is at the heart of it and it is exactly what he chooses to paint. BIOGRAPHY Canafranca's recent paintings of meat "stands as an interesting parody which tackles desire." Meat is at the heart of it and it is exactly what he chooses to paint. Done...

AK Ocol

AK OcolHer drawing process involves the application of technological glitches and image generators as a critique of the institutionalized narrative and an exploration of identity and queer experiences.BIOGRAPHY AK Ocol is a self-taught artist who specializes in...

The Weather Bureau

The Weather BureauThe Weather Bureau is a social architecture and engineering conglomerate that designs propositionary structures and conditions in the idealized state of utopia. BIOGRAPHY The Weather Bureau build from seemingly failed plans of defunct totalitarian...

Galaxie Maria

Galaxie MariaGalaxie Maria works by series, studying and reflecting on“impermanence” and the human condition in the context of existence.BIOGRAPHY Galaxie Maria (b. Maria Delfino) is a Filipino visual artist who adapts artistic styles to vehicle an idea, with a focus...

MM Yu

MM YuThe hybrid and density of MM Yu’s subjects remind us of how objects and signs are not necessarily self-contained but take part in larger systems of interaction.BIOGRAPHY MM Yu b.1978, Lives and works in Manila, Philippines MM Yu has worked between photography and...

Victor Balanon

Victor BalanonBeing a versatile artist, he produced a varied range of works, in particular generating artworks for films, independent comics and underground music labels.BIOGRAPHY Victor Balanon has worked as an illustrator creating storyboards, album covers and...

Jed Escueta

Jed EscuetaThe subjects of Escueta's works revolve around the personal: his insider accounts of forays into floating and fleeting worlds, and the artifacts from these journeys.BIOGRAPHY Jed Ernest Escueta (b. 1981) started exhibiting in group shows in 2002 and held...

Aze Ong

Aze OngFilipino artist Aze Ong explores the different possibilities of using fiber as an art form.BIOGRAPHY Crochet, knitting, knotting, embroidery, macrame, and sewing. These are just some of the techniques that Aze Ong uses to create immersive installations, both...

Marge Organo

Marge OrganoSculptor Marge Organo presents angular abstract glass forms and incorporates different figurations that play with the diffused light.BIOGRAPHY A semi-retired businesswoman, an emerging artist, mother of four grown-up children, a late-bloomer in the field...

Beatrix Syjuco

Beatrix Syjuco Beatrix Syjuco presents facets of her introspect, narrating images that lie within a spectrum that range from joy to torment, bliss to heartbreak.BIOGRAPHY BEATRIX SYJUCO (b. 1982, Vancouver, BC) is an internationally acclaimed painter, installation,...

Allyssa Heuze

Allyssa HeuzeBy starting a dialog with the viewers, Alyssa invites them to challenge their own interpretations of sex. BIOGRAPHY Allyssa Heuze is a french-filipino photographer currently based in Paris. She moved to France to pursue her studies in photography which...

Ambie Abaño

Ambie AbañoHer passion in printmaking led to the creation of portraits and figures in various mixed media print works, sculptures, and installations, always originating from traditional printmaking techniques.BIOGRAPHY An architect turned visual artist, Ambie Abaño...

Monica Delgado

Monica DelgadoA multidimensional explorations of the physicality of paint that trick the viewer into thinking the medium is fabric, canvas, paper, or plastic.BIOGRAPHY Monica Delgado works with acrylic paint as her main medium, with a sculptural approach.She earned...

Romina Diaz

Romina DiazArtist, photographer, singer, and an art educator, Romina Diaz, graduated summa cum laude at the Academia delle Belle Arti in Florence, Italy.BIOGRAPHY Born in Manila into a family of highly creative people, she grew up alongside great Filipino artists such...

Ovvian Castrillo

Ovvian CastrilloThe artist’s experience in physical sculpture, scale, and coordination— as well as having the eye for space and shadows in large scale art work allows her to create robust yet elegant brass pieces.BIOGRAPHY Employing familiar materials, Ovvian...

Pablo Bermudez

Pablo BermudezThe art of Pablo Bermudez deals with the ephemeral beauty of images from advertisements to create imaginative sculptural paper work.BIOGRAPHYPablo Bermudez was born in 1988 in Pereira, Colombia. He moved to Barcelona in 1998 and to Como (Italy) in 2002,...

Peter Zimmermann

Peter ZimmermannMastering the use of pigmented epoxy resin and acrylic on canvas, German artist Peter Zimmermann’s work explores the visual effects of form and material through multi-layered compositions of colors and shapes, resulting in an effect of shifting light...

Jono Pisano

Jono PisanoJono's works evoke elements of the Renaissance period while challenging the concepts of perception and sight. His practice inquires the manifestation of originality, authenticity, and presence. BIOGRAPHYJono Duran Pisano (b.1990) received his BFA degree in...

Mark Nicdao

Mark Nicdao While Mark Nicdao is a celebrated photographer in the Philippines, his artistic practice goes beyond the lens and traverses into painting and sculptural works. BIOGRAPHY As an exhibiting artist, Mark Nicdao’s work immerse the power of visual aesthetics in...

Lynyrd Paras

Lynyrd ParasThe artworks of Lynyrd Paras provide a new meaning to portraits and depictions of the self. His works produce a melancholic feeling and allow us to become critical of our actions in a fast-paced world. BIOGRAPHYLynyrd’s dark and, sometimes, uncomfortable...

Sinta Tantra

Sinta Tantra Her diverse practice ranges from painting to site-specific sculptural interventions and large-scale public artworks.BIOGRAPHYTantra’s works usually merge art and architecture with patterns and colors that mirror her Balinese heritage. Heavily influenced...

Ronald Apriyan

Ronald ApriyanRonald produces works that evoke childhood innocence through the playful nature of colors and forms.BIOGRAPHY With images borrowed from pop culture references, Ronald brings out visual narratives, which usually foray into the fantasy and imagination of...

13 Lucky Monkey

13 Lucky MonkeyA collective of artists specializing in painting, sculpture, and other forms of design.BIOGRAPHY13 Lucky Monkey was established in 2008 by sculptor Noli Coronado and Dante Dizon. Pushing the limits of craft and design, the collective has gained...

Dedy Sufriadi

Dedy SufriadiDedy's works are usually influenced by the wide selection of literature he reads, particularly in the field of Philosophy. Conspicuous in his series is the inclusion of text as a visual device, adding complexity to the layers of confident strokes found in...

Caryn Koh

Caryn KohCaryn’s works incorporate themes that thrive on emotional and psychological characteristics of individuals and feature subjects that portray the tenderness of human emotions.BIOGRAPHYPreviously being in the medical field, Caryn Koh has since rediscovered her...

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