Jan Balquin (Filipino, b.1989) is a visual artist that works across painting, sculpture, and collage. Her practice heavily involves mimicry and material manipulation to a degree that alludes to the certain absurdities within and around the artist’s purview. Balquin earned her BFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts Diliman, Quezon City. She has joined group shows since her high school years at Philippine High School for the Arts in 2007 and has been actively exhibiting as part of group shows since 2010 in galleries within and outside the metro. She has had seven solo exhibitions with her most recent, “When Surfaces Misbehave” in the upstairs gallery of Finale Art File. Other recent solo exhibitions include The Drawing Room, Makati (2018) Art Informal Gallery, Makati (2018), represented artist for Underground Gallery booth in the Art Fair Philippines (2019). Recent group exhibitions include, The Drawing Room booth at Art Busan, South Korea (2018), Too Eat is to Survive to be Hungry, 1335 Mabini (2018) Melted City 4, Rhode Island School of Design, New England (2017)