Artists
Reen Barrera
Born in France and raised in the Philippines, Vinyl on Vinyl artist Reen Barrera’s artistic inclinations were evident early in childhood. The artist had then begun with repairing wood carvings at church, which grew into an interest in collecting found materials to...
SAIS
Cavite-based SAIS joins the crossover as a part of Art Underground. A graduate of Fine Arts from the Technological University of the Philippines-Manila, he has been exhibiting works since 2020. Working primarily with charcoal and graphite, he is most known for his...
Valerie Chua
Valerie Chua's (1987) artistic practice revolves around the appropriation of image stock and both personal and public film images as her primary subject matter. Her works capture the complex and multifaceted nature of identity construction, often overlooked in our era...
Joebert Gayoma
Margaux Blas
Roland Llarena
Shireen Co
Shireen Co (b. 1997) is a visual artist and art writer based in Quezon City. Primarily a painter, her focus is on the domestic, finding an extensive source of pattern and variation in the different permutations of everyday objects. The ubiquity and familiarity of...
Pablo K. Capati III
Pablo K. Capati III’s (b. 1975) ceramic practice centres upon the rigorous and demanding method of wood firing. Using an anagama kiln that he constructed at his studio in San Jose, Philippines, Capati fires his works for a number of days so that the unglazed forms...
Addy Debil
Bandung-based Addy Debil (b.1993) is widely known as a street artist, where his signature characters can often be seen in the doodles and murals he made on the city walls. With his uniquely approachable visual style, he fluidly navigates through various art scenes,...
Anna Orlina
Visual artist and sculptor Anna Orlina (b. 1992) has been exposed to the art world ever since she was a child. Glass as an art medium is not only one that she chose, but one that she was also born into. Her father, Ramon Orlina, has been a self-taught coldworking...
Kim Borja
Kim Borja (b. 1999) is an emerging artist hailing from Manila. Captivating her audience with an inverted and luminous palette, meticulously honed through her affinity for color blending in acrylic, evoking a myriad of emotions – sincerity, solace, and warmth. Borja...
Rosa Mirasol
Artist, cultural worker, and teacher Rosa Mirasol is an advocate of slow and mindful living. Mirasol shares her love of pottery with various communities across the Philippines through Clay Meditation and Clay Autobiography Workshops.
JD Yu
Based in La Union, potter and photographer JD Yu explores techniques that encapsulate the rawness of the natural world. Inspired by his immediate surroundings, his work is textured with the experience of living by the sea. Yu graduated from the De La Salle University...
Jezzel Wee
Melding the handicrafts of pottery and crochet, artist Jezzel Wee reflects on the congruence of materiality and meaning in her chosen mediums. Wee graduated from the University of the Philippines where she currently teaches as part of the College of Fine Arts, and is...
Marco Rosario
Rizal-based ceramicist Marco Rosario contemplates the places, objects, people, and memories that make us. After completing his studies at the University of the Philippines, Rosario worked at Tsugaru Kanayama Pottery where he developed his distinct method of creating...
Jose Solon Perfecto
Jose Solon Perfecto looks to the “underrated experience of solitary dining”, presenting a series of sake bottles and cups that reflect his own hermitic practice and identity as an artist. Perfecto, also working in La Union, uses local wild clays and rice straw ash to...
Aly Kangleon
Kangleon works terra cotta and stoneware into a homogenous body to create her pieces, she notes its fermented plasticity as a fulcrum of the quiet ways we connect with each other and the world that surrounds us. A ceramicist and instructor, Kangleon’s practice...
Iori Espiritu
The works of ceramicist and illustrator Iori Espiritu, in a similar fashion, explore our troubled interiorities. A graduate of the University of Santo Tomas and the University of the Philippines, Espiritu has exhibited widely, both locally and internationally. She is...
Ianna Engaño
As she draws from the sociopolitical, ecological, and cultural realities of the day, Engaño warns against the pitfalls of resilience, weaponized to drive the Filipino people further away from justice. Engaño runs her own studio, Odangputik Studio, in Cavite, creating...
Haraya Ocampo Tejido
Haraya Corazon Ocampo Tejido (b.1981) received her Marketing Management degree from the De La Salle University Manila in 2002. She unofficially started her art practice back in 2009 as a studio apprentice for visual artist Jomike Tejido, her spouse. Working on several...
Quiban
Originally hailing from the Philippines, Johnrey Quiban (b. 1985) is an architect and self-taught mood landscape artist based in Singapore. He is inspired by the stillness of nature and the imperfections of life. Quiban’s journey led him to embark on a new chapter in...
Niño Odosis
Niño Odosis' body of work depicts social realism in various forms. A visual artist and an art instructor, he juxtaposes historical imagery and present-day figures. He is known for his paintings with impressionist ‘hatched’ style, a style of art wherein one draws...
Geri Mae Gonzales
Geri Gonzales is a visual artist, whose strengths lie in acrylic and oil painting. Her art is inspired by the themes of the Romantic Era and aims to depict the beauty and fragility of natural transformation through nostalgic and ethereal landscapes.
Jobert Cruz
Jobert Cruz is a Tondo-born-and-based artist whose works resist easy categorization by form and style. An artist dedicated to finding new expressions on his painted plane, Cruz’s career has seen the development of a distinct visual language marked by movement,...
Nicole Bitas
Nicole Bitas is a visual artist who finds inspiration in the mundanity of daily life. These may be the morning introspections, idle moments in the afternoon, or conversations at the dinner table, among others. Her works often incorporate a humorous palette and...
Tommy Bayot
Pat Frades
A self-taught artist, Pat Frades (b. 1993) is recognized for her whimsical and enchanting clay sculpture pieces. Her enduring fascination with mushrooms and corals, characterized by their remarkable growth, distinctive beauty, and harmonious coexistence with nature,...
Thea Quiachon
Thea Quiachon (b. 1996) is a Philippine-based artist whose works focus on stories about people’s intricate connections with one another. Through her figurative art, she creates seemingly indistinct illustrations that hold meaning to her yet open for the interpretation...
Eugenia Alcaide
Working primarily with thread and silk, Eugenia Alcaide weaves the notions of identity and history into line-art portraits. Alcaide pursued art full time in 2010, developing a technique that involves intertwining strands of thread along paths and patterns to produce...
Madonna Mortera
Vincent Dinoso
Les Amacio
The violence of the familiar and the familial, the complicity of the domestic, the terrifying and claustrophobic proximity in intense and deep relationships, the deadening effect of the quotidian that brings one to the edge of annihilation are themes in the oeuvre of...
Ricky Francisco
A museum worker for over twenty years, the lockdowns from the recent pandemic allowed Ricky Francisco to try his hand at painting, something that he has worked tangentially with as a museum registrar, a conservator, a curator, and an art writer. Light is the main...
Joar Songcuya
Joar Songcuya is a Marine Engineer and a self-taught artist who has traveled to 85 countries in his decade at sea. His art is a documentation of his life at sea using subjects such as marine landscape, boats, depicted with a combination of naif and impressionistic...
Aldy Aguirre
Aldy Aguirre is a freelance artist and illustrator whose published works have been awarded in ecognized locally by the Philippine Board on Books for the Young People and National Book Development Board; and abroad by ILUSTRARTE in Castelo Branco, Portugal and Sharjah...
Alver de Ocampo
Alver de Ocampo primarily works using charcoal and does portraits and other commissioned works through his own online enterprise. His paintings often deal with soft, patterned landscapes with a narrative element of flight.
Pat Abella
Pat Abella (b. 1996) is graduate of Far Eastern University with a degree of medical technology. Even with his academic background, Pat has been consistently active in the art scene by participating in various group shows in the metro since 2018. He has been exhibiting...
Dan Macapugay
Self-taught artist Dan Macapugay (b. 1989) was born and raised in Malolos, Bulacan. Portraits dominate his practice, allowing interest in studying human experiences and the factors in shaping personalities. The majority of his works are portraits and figures of women...
Katrina Cuenca
Katrina Cuenca (b. 1984) is a self-taught artist who has been painting since the 1990s. Experimenting with figures, patterns, and textures, Cuenca continuously rediscovers and evolves her art practice based on life experiences. The result is a melding of figuration...
Nikulas Lebajo
Rum Corvera
Rum Corvera draws realistic, bold human figures with the technical precision and close attention to detail that Corvera has honed in jewelry design. Rendered in smudged charcoal over black paper, he embellishes these figures with textured gold painted accents, and...
Ron Mariñas
A symbolist painter known for his sensual, idealized male figures, Ron’s body of work is rendered in academic realism over a backdrop of textured gold, and combined with symbols from pop culture, retail, and fashion. Combining classical anatomy with pop references, he...
Summer De Guia
Summer’s dynamic visuals are classical compositions with modern, conceptual juxtapositions in portraiture. Her usual subjects are women painted realistically against flat, plain-color backgrounds. At present, she focuses on distorted nude women in closed, intimate...
Nic Bautista
Nic Bautista is a full-time graphic artist, a museum worker, a licensed teacher, and a practicing visual artist based in Manila. A graduate of Advertising Arts from Far Eastern University, she has participated in several art exhibitions and contests during her college...
CABNOV
Danikah Novio is a multidisciplinary Artist born in the Philippines and now based in New Zealand. Her works are created from the visual fragmentation of Lofi music she produced, translating it into an art form. CABNOV's creative inspirations mostly come from...
Carl Modelo
With layering and dry brush techniques in his acrylic paintings, Carl Modelo's pieces birth characters that are equal parts candy-sweet and salty as tears. Modelo's figures appear as suited to posters and portraits, or even surrealistic dreamscapes as they are to...
Nasser Lubay
Nasser Lubay's (b. 1982) art is marked by a rich sense for colour and a dense imagination. With "Nursery of Curiosities", the title of his first solo exhibition, he deepened his research into the the theme of cosmic germination and enriched his positive inventiveness...
Geremy Samala
Geremy Samala (b.1994) is a painter from Manila, with a BFA degree from Far Eastern University. Samala collides various techniques of grids, stencils, or tape, while exploring the probity of the drawn line and elastic stroke against volumetric rendering and object...
Mikko Baladjay
Mikko Baladjay (b. 1992) studied in Far Eastern University-Manila, with major in Painting. His abstract works tread on the various expositions of spatial relations and cognitions. His works have been exhibited in group shows various galleries in Manila such as Kaida...
Blaise Zamora
Jemima Yabes
Justin Angelo Vital
Currently based in San Miguel Bulacan, Justin Angelo Vital(b. 1996) is a graduate of Bulacan State University, finishing Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication. Combining the architecture of slums and the human body, his works depict the movement of people in...
Edmond Rivera
John Louie Esguerra
Jet Valencia
budding visual artist Jet Valencia (b. 1993) has developed a distinctive style of utilizing bold and vibrant shapes to outline his subjects. A graduate of Fine Arts and Business Administration in Bulacan State University and Centro Escolar University, he has been...
Norberto Carating
Regina Reyes
Regina Reyes (b. 1993) merges painting, sculpture, and collage in her practice. Her works are informed by personal narratives that are then projected into universal contexts. Reyes works around the idea of home, decay, tradition, and relational experiences as...
Isha Naguiat
Isha Naguiat (b. 1994) is a visual artist from Manila, Philippines. She graduated with honors from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts majoring in Painting. She often uses textile, embroidery and photo transfer to create works that revolve around...
Tintin Lontoc
Sam Feleo
Eugene Dominguez
After earning a degree in fine arts, Eugene Dominguez (b. 1996) moved on to create his own art that explores interpersonal interactions. It portrays people's and their surroundings' reality. The message of peace and rest is conveyed through Dominguez's paintings. His...
Pepe Delfin
Pepe Delfin (b. 1991, Capiz) explores abstract forms through geometric shapes and lines. The careful placements of these elements produce visual narratives of Delfin's experiences, observations, and relationships with people and contemporary life. Her paintings,...
Christian Carillaza
Anjo Bolarda
Rene Bituin
Kevin Balboa
Starting as a pop surrealist artist, Kevin Balboa (b. 1991) has consistently narrated the bizarre in everyday objects. From giving a nod to pop culture icons, Balboa has created his own characters with seemingly lives of their own as they evolve, transfiguring into a...
Gretel Balajadia
Jonas Eslao
Jonas Eslao (b. 1984) lives and works in Manila, Philippines and has exhibited extensively since 2007. His past works contained themes that thrive on the effects of human intervention to nature and investigates the contribution of cultures and economies to climate...
Mr. S
The works of Mr. S (b. 1990) are steeped in the world of fantasy. Complete with a dreamlike environment and wide-eyed characters, he is not only technically skilled, but also gifted with the vision to construct imaginary, bordering on surreal, scenes. His characters...
Atsuko Yamagata
Atsuko Yamagata (b. 1982, Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan) has been practicing visual arts since 2006. Yamagata obtained her degree in Foreign Studies from Tokyo University with a major in Indonesian language: Southeast Asian Cultural Studies. In Manila, her works were...
Hae Ryun
The visual eloquence of Korean-born and raised Hae Ryun (b. 1980) is clearly seen through her breathtaking sceneries, infused with various psychological elements. Over the course of her decade-long artistic practice, each painting has effortlessly invited the viewer...
Liew Mei Toong
Malaysian artist Liew Mei Toong (b.1996) often captures her subjects in the midst of movement as she tries to depict transition and change. But she knows, that transformation does not always demand motion for metamorphosis is inevitable. Toong earned a diploma from...
Chayanin Kwangkaew
Still life has been the subject of many artists past and present, but Thai visual artist Chayanin Kwangkaew (b. 1990) injects his works with contemporary imagery, as if disrupting the solemnity of inert objects. Drawing from his own experience of living with...
Alexander Calceta
Alexander Calceta’s (b. 1974) works are infused with symbolism of objects — organic and man-made — to explore the poetry of human lives and the world they live in. By focusing on objects and one’s relationship to them, Calceta presents a fresh vantage point from...
Julie Liger Belair
For 20 years, Julie Liger Belair has been making assemblage pieces and three-dimensional collages in found or handmade frames and boxes. She creates mixed media works using paint, wood, papier-mâché, polymer clay, metal and found objects. They feature the cabinet...
Paulina Luz Sotto
Paulina Luz Sotto received her degree from Ateneo de Manila University (AB Communications) where she graduated cum laude. She was also featured in several group exhibitions in Metro Manila. Her early artistic sensibilities were formed while living with her...
Ev Yu
Through marrying offbeat color palette and off-center geometry, Ev Yu (b. 1990) conjures chaotic yet hallucinatory visuals. In her works, shapes transfigure to another, colors transition into different hues, and often, too, these elements collapse into each other. It...
Clarissa Gonzalez
Clarissa Gonzalez is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer from Manila. Using her fascination with color and light, Gonzalez seeks to explore its nuances through various mediums, ranging from sculpture to motion graphics. She is also part of the art collective...
Xjin
Christian Pagadora, also known as Xjin, is a contemporary artist and designer. A graduate of Industrial Design at University of the Philippines Diliman, Xjin's has been participating in various group exhibitions since 2018. His subjects touch various societal issues,...
DanCho
Maverick Abac
Gelo Cinco
Georgina Pomarejos
Georgina Pomarejos has been producing art as early as the age of three. Using watercolor as her dominant medium, Pomarejos produces realistic figurative paintings that define her current emotional state while still conforming with her familiar vivid and translucent...
Raha Rodriguez
Raha Rodriguez’s body of work stems from his knowledge as a professional industrial designer. An alumnus from the University of Philippines Diliman, Raja’s expertise on 3D modeling, material handling, and fabrication all contribute to his process of making unique...
Baby Evil
Playing with the contemporary human experience, emerging artist Baby Evil (b. 1998) paints dark and seemingly grotesque characters simmered in saccharine palettes. After completing a degree in Fine Arts, Major in Painting at University of Santo Tomas, Baby Evil’s...
Janos Delacruz
A recipient of CCP's Thirteen Artist Awards, Janos Delacruz (b. 1985) is a prolific painter, printmaker and illustrator based in Muntinlupa. Delacruz's profound social commentaries set in surrealistic panoramas have been recognized and given merit by various art...
Paul Eric Roca
Paul Eric Roca is an illustrator and a visual artist. He graduated from Enverga University with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines. He illustrated several children’s books namely, “Si Ching...
Jem Magbanua
Jem Magbanua (b. 1992) received her BA (Hons) Fine Arts from the LASALLE College of Arts, Singapore (in partnership with Goldsmiths’ College, University of London). Her practice is grounded firmly in drawing and explores how places and people shape each other’s...
JJ Zamoranos
Bvdot
Blic
GNCH
Siefred Guilaran
Odang
Erikson Arcilla
Genavee Lazaro
Genavee Lazaro (b. 1994) first worked as a sculptor, and received her training in the said art form in the University of the Philippines Diliman. After graduating, she furthered her art practice in the same university as a ceramics studio assistant in the College of...
Steph Alvarez
Steph Alvarez’s (b.1989) works revolve around nature and its relation with femininity. Using the themes of flowers, Alvarez articulates experiences specific to women. Since she began exhibiting in 2015, she has been part of group exhibitions in art galleries and...
Alagadngsining
Jeffrey Jay Jarin
Shannah Orencio
Shannah Orencio (b. 1995) is a graduate from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Communications from the College of Fine Arts. Orencio’s body of work comprises the utilization of mostly plants, predominantly dried leaves and flowers,...
Ginoe
Emmanuel Cordova
Glecy Alberto
Julie Lluch
Julie Lluch is a graduate of Philosophy from the University of Santo Tomas. She has had many roles in her full life as a woman, daughter, friend, student, wife, mother, educator, believer, and artist. She expresses both her creativity and her accumulated wisdom...
Frances Alvarez
(b. 1988) Fran Alvarez is an illustrator and graphic designer. Her works have appeared in various forms such as books, editorial illustrations, merchandise, apparel, packaging, identity and brand materials, and environmental graphics. In 2015, she completed an...
Tuchi Imperial
Tuchi Imperial uses found archival images juxtaposed to create surreal contexts and impossibilities. Her works derive from both personal narratives, and from the instinctive creation. Trained as a photographer, her compositions are a departure from the photography...
Japs Antido
Edrick Daniel
Renz Baluyot
Renz Baluyot (b. 1989) graduated from the University of the Philippines in Diliman with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, majoring in Painting. Through visual arts, he explores socio-political narratives that center on urban decay; studies on how much of the...
Niño Hernandez
Valen Valero
Camille Quintos
Beatrix Syjuco
JP Pining
Marlon Magbanua
Luis Lopa
Fiona Helena
Sal Ponce Enrile
Melvin Culaba
Rowshan Begum
Gabby Prado
Gabby Prado (b. 1995) is a visual artist who narrates her aesthetic journey in a series of paintings and sculptures derived from her experiences. After years of training in performance, specifically dancing, Prado envisioned a way to transform movement into large...
Marc Escalona Gaba
Marc Escalona Gaba’s art examines junctures of passages where meaning is configured as a site of response. While concentrated on oil painting, particularly "apertural" paintings, his practice encompasses installation, video, books and photography. His subjects have...
Bridget Co
Akira Miyamoto
Akira is a sculptor and painter based in Kyoto, Japan. Endlessly fascinated with the complexity of human realities, Miyamoto’s works explore the internal and external facets of humans, depicting their contradictions that are easily seen, and yet to be discovered. He...
LJ Ablola
Dan Barry
(b. 1971) visual artist Dan Barry graduated from Lawrence University (Wisconsin) in 1994. He primarily studied cultural anthropology and fine art, but his artistic practice began at a young age, creating artworks from collected images and found objects, painting,...
Dexter Sy
(b. 1979) Dexter Sy is a visual artist and a teacher. In 2017, through the Philippine Artist Residency Program of Alliance française de Manile, he was able to have a residency and a solo exhibition at Centre Intermondes in La Rochelle, France. Prior to this residency...
Ciane Xavier
Ciane Xavier’s sculptures teeter between the charming and grotesque, the familiar and unfamiliar. At first, her human figures would come across as benign; they possess ideal proportions, their skin pearl white and tinted with sanguine hues. But one need not take a...
Red Ognita
Miguel Lorenzo Uy
Jun Sabayton
Paul Mondok
Kidlat de Guia
Idan Cruz
Eunice Sanchez
Red Ognita
MM Yu
Jake Verzosa
Cru Camara
Cru Camara is a 24 year old photographer who studied in the School of Visual Arts in New York City from 2013-2015 and is now based in Manila, Philippines. Her work revolves around her fascination with color and the idea of stretching reality in photographs by turning...
Alessandro Sicioldr
Italian visual artist Alessandro Sicioldr is a “painter of the imaginary,” depicting visions from his unconscious mind using a mix of contemporary and traditional techniques. Rejecting the pop art movement that recreates images from ‘literal things,’ Alessandro’s...
Keiko Yokoyama
Keiko Yokoyama paints charming idyllic scenes of dolls, stuffed animals, and young children, working on the idea that toys and objects from childhood can transcend borders. Children often relate with them in creating a different reality; Yokoyama captures these...
Meghan Hildebrand
Meghan Hildebrand is a Canadian contemporary artist who reimagines time and landscape as non-linear and shapeshifting, always in transition and transformation. In exploring terrains, Hildebrand also translates her own experiences with the various places she has gone...
Wins delos Santos
Pabsie Martus
Jovert Aguilar
Jie Adamat
Chito Borja
Jerwin Villanueva
Jana Charleen Mendoza
Jerome Choco
Kat Grow
A young visual artist most known for her watercolor works, Kat Grow graduated from the University of the Philippines majoring in Painting, and has joined group exhibitions at Kaida Contemporary, Artery Art Space, and Sining Kamalig, as well as displayed works at the...
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Jerry Elizalde Navarro
National Artist for painting Jerry Elizalde Navarro may not have the same recall now as many of his peers, like Bencab, Ang Kiukok, Jose Joya, Fernando Amorsolo, or Vicente Manansala, who, by their ubiquitous presence and prominence in the auction scene over the past...
Jomike Tejido
Formally trained as an architect, Jomike Tejido (b.1982) is adept at manipulating the pictorial plane through abstraction. Using geometric shapes and rhythmically alternating between different vibrant colors and textures, Tejido creates imaginary worlds that appear...
Faye Pamintuan
Morgan Martinito
Benjie Torrado Cabrera
Hideo Tanaka
Gifted with an eye for attention to detail, Hideo Tanaka (b. 1959) paints his subjects accurately and true to life, albeit often set in a surreal world. Most of his figurative paintings have women perched on electric posts and traffic lights, contemplating as if they...
Morgan Rosskopf
Oregon-based artist Morgan Rosskopf’s (b.1987) works tend to overwhelm the viewers’ visual senses, and are meant to do so. Deep within her textured floral cut-outs, combined with watercolor and graphite illustrations, are polarities she wants to put into question....
Kiko Capile
Macabre and surreal, Kiko Capile is more interested in what lies beneath the flesh. He penetrates deep into his subjects, exposing their writhing insides. Made only with pen, his highly detailed rendering makes his works all the more spine-tingling. While death and...
Jone Sibugan
A young artist with promising talent and vision, Jone Sibugan (b. 1997) graduated magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines with a major in Painting. He has participated in group exhibitions in Underground Gallery, 1335 Mabini, and Erehwon Center for the...
Maxine Syjuco
Described by literary icons as “the temptress of provocative art,” Maxine Syjuco (born1984 in Manila, Philippines) is an internationally-awarded visual artist and poet known for her bold, daring and experimental mixed-media creations. Taking literary devices from the...
Kristine Caguiat
A collage artist, illustrator, and graphic designer, Kristine Caguiat graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University and afterwards received certifications in Art Theory and Illustration from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and the Peking University in...
Jel Suarez
Originally a Psychology graduate specializing in Special Education, Jel Suarez is a formidable newcomer in the contemporary scene; having been shortlisted at this year’s Ateneo Art Awards after only four years as an exhibiting artist. Jel has mounted one solo...
Alab Pagarigan
Alab Pagarigan was born on June 28, 1985 in Antipolo City, Philippines. Coming from a family of artists, his early exposure to art made him a scholar at the Philippine High School for the Arts, where he started his formal training and discipline. He initially started...
Raul Isidro
The veteran visual artist Raul Isidro (b. 1943) creates his poetic landscape abstractions using imagery culled from childhood vistas close to his heart; the meditative shapes and silhouettes encapsulating the movements of our ever-changing landscape. With a life story...
Kittisak Thapkoa
The young contemporary Thai artist Kittisak Thapkoa (b. 1989), with his visually arresting chimerical imagery that blends human, animal, and godly forms, is steadily making a name for himself in his home country and abroad. Following numerous domestic accolades from...
Mark Maac
Jinggoy Buensuceso
Cristina Gamón
(b. 1987) Cristina Gamón lives and works in Madrid. Working mainly with acrylic pigment and paint on transparent acrylic sheets, Cristina treats this surface as a medium for expression, as a transparent window through which we peer into a section of the world, and as...
Juan Sajid
A sculptor for more than 20 years, Juan Sajid Imao excels in his use of metal and experiments with different media. Sajid’s mastery of his medium and body of works have led to his being recognized as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) in 2006...
Kevin Roque
Brent Sabas
Visual artist, illustrator, and art director Brent Sabas is known for his skillful illustrations that succinctly communicate complex ideas. After graduating cum laude from the University of the Philippines with a BFA major in Visual Communications, Brent joined the...
Yas Doctor
Jing Magsaysay
Anton Del Castillo
(b. 1976) Born in Tondo, Manila, Anton del Castillo earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Most of his works delve into ideas of war and religion, and congruently deviate from the contemporary status...
Farley Del Rosario
Farley del Rosario (b. 1980) is a contemporary artist of the faux naïf genre. He rose to prominence in 2007 with a series that riffed on classic art canon pieces and iconic movie scenes, taking off from the familiar with his signature childlike flair. Both...
Sarah Geneblazo
The evolution of Sarah Geneblazo’s (b. 1989) body of work tracks her journey through artistic therapeutic healing, her paintings serving as outlet for childhood sexual trauma. Since her first solo exhibition “Escape” at West Gallery in 2012, Sarah has been depicting...
Imam Santoso
Imam Santoso (b. 1986) Both a conservator at the National Museum of Indonesia as well as a professional artist, Imam Santoso’s colorful and intricately surreal artworks reflect his motivations as preservator of culture, home, and life. Born in the country’s artistic...
Lyndon Maglalang
Lyndon Maglalang (b. 1993) artistic practice engages in deliberate and careful representation of narratives through succinct depictions of landscapes, melancholic scenes, and figures that hint at human life. Maglalang’s poetic illustration of scenarios that rest...
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Nunzio Paci
Born and raised in Bologna, Italy, Nunzio Paci (b.1977) paints with the eye of a doctor and the hands of a painter. Painting in the tradition of Baroque and Renaissance, Paci’s works are faithful to life, from anatomy to colors, and meticulously composed. But his...
Justin Nuyda
Marvin Quizon
MARVIN QUIZON earned his degree in Fine Arts at Bulacan State University. He portrays his subjects hyper-realistically with a significant amount of mystery. His technique revolves primarily on sfumato effects and contextual figures in seemingly vulnerable positions....
Don Bryan Bunag
DON BRYAN BUNAG is a graduate of Fine Arts at Bulacan State University. He has earned various citations and awards in painting with the recent one being the grand winner of the 2016 Metrobank Art and Design Excellence Competition. His participation in numerous group...
Lawrence Cervantes
Born in 1993, Lawrence Cervantes is one of the young artists who are making their own mark in the contemporary art scene. A graduate of fine arts from the Bulacan State University, Cervantes has been exhibiting his works in different group exhibitions since 2012. In...
Edwin Wilwayco
Ever the prolific painter, Wilwayco has established the world of art as his way of life. Born in Guimba, Nueva Ecija, and now based in Providence, Rhode Island, he has earned his way into local and international success, elevating the respect from many artists and...
Allison Wong David
The Unencumbered Spirit The sculptor Allison Wong-David has long been drawn to nature as a major theme in her sculpture and installations. Where there was once a controlling hand at the heart of her oeuvre, there is now a freer line and a belief that there is great...
Sergio Bumatay III
Sergio Bumatay III is a children’s book illustrator, book designer, and painter. Among his significant works as an illustrator include The Best Book in the World, grand prize at the 20th Daekyo Eye Level Children’s Literature Award in South Korea. He has also recently...
Rommel Joson
A virtouso illustrator and artist for children’s books and various other published materials, Rommel Joson has received awards for painting, illustration, comics and design from various organizations such as the Philippine Board of Books for the Young, the Shell...
Iya Consorio
Roby Dwi Antono
Roby Dwi Antono’s (b. 1990) works draw viewers to unearthly yet nostalgic territories. Drawing inspiration from pop surrealism, renaissance, and even his own memories, Antono’s subjects, wide-eyed and deadpan, stare right into the viewer’s eyes. Yet instead of...
Manix Abrera
With over two decades of experience, Manix Abrera (b. 1982) has become a household name. He is the creator of Kikomachine Komix, a long-running daily strip in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. His humorous and often satirical comics has been published across multiple...
Noor Bahjat
United Arab Emirates-based expressionist artist Noor Bahjat (b.1991) mostly references herself in her works. Such practice, however, is not meant to be self-aggrandizing. In doing her own portraits, Bahjat opens up to the intricacies of portraying the personal and the...
Emman Acasio
Born in 1984 and raised in Lemery Batangas, Emman Acasio got a scholarship at the University of Sto. Tomas where he received his BFA in 2005, Cum Laude. He was also the recipient of the Outstanding Thesis of the Year with his book illustration which tackled the...
Anton Subiyanto
(b. 1980) A graduate of Graphic Arts from the Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta-based Anton often favors acrylic with graphite but has also produced etched prints and drawings. His flexible technique allows him to tackle subjects ranging from rearing a family to...
Eufemio Rasco IV
Marcel Antonio
Ramon Orlina
Aljo Pingol
Aljo expresses an exultation of spirit in his recent works. As a visual storyteller, he acknowledges infirmities yet provides focus on the positive side of these imperfections. A University of Sto. Tomas Graduate with a Bachelor's Degree in fine Arts, one can't help...
Roel Obemio
Migs Villanueva
Vincent de Pio
Through marrying expressionist and realist techniques, Vincent de Pio (b. 1979) gives his interpretation of Japanese motifs a unique personal vision. More than being fascinated by Japan’s rich pop culture, he is also fascinated by the image of the past and the...
Richard Arimado
Angelito Antonio
Proceso S. Gelladuga II
Proceso born October 16, 1980 is a multi-talented artist whose specialty has been in contemporary dance performance and choreography. He was a senior company member of Airdance, a leading contemporary dance company in the Philippines before coming to Hong Kong. He has...
Federico Aguilar Alcuaz
Born in Manila, National Artist Federico Aguilar Alcuaz (June 6, 1932 – February 2, 2011) was the sixth of eleven children and took his primary and secondary education at public schools. He pursued an Associate in Arts degree at San Beda College in the evenings and a...
Daniel dela Cruz
Daniel de la Cruz’s journey to becoming an artist began during his childhood when he was fond of creating indistinguishable forms out of clay. A Filipino by birth and sensibility, his natural artistic skills were discovered during his freshman year at college and...
Anthony Palo
Palo’s works make use of bright playful colors and oval-faced figures that are staples in the entertainment fare of this generation weaned on comic books, manga, and anime. At the outset the viewer is lured into this familiar terrain but once he takes that step...
Aileen Lanuza
Aileen Lanuza (b. 1981) entered the University of the Philippines Diliman to study fine arts majoring in visual communication in 1999. Come 2008, she held her first one-man show and has been part of auctions and publications the same year. A prolific artist, Lanuza...
Dominic Rubio
A founding member of the Guevarra and Blumentritt Group of artists, Dominic Rubio was born in Paete, Laguna, the Lakeshore town famous for its woodcarving tradition. He studied at the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts where he majored in commercial arts....
Gilbert Semillano
When he was a young boy, Gilbert Semillano was struck with a high fever. In a delirious state, the fever induced Caravaggian visions of grotesqueries and bizarre landscapes in an entirely different world that he never forgot. Recovering from that fever, Semillano has...
Francis Nacion
Francisco Tejada Nacion Jr.was born in Kalibo, Aklan in 1981. He is the youngest of eight; and has been drawing since the age of four. Despite majoring in Computer Engineering at the University of Baguio, Francis nonetheless pursued art studies while in college. In...
Jomar Delluba
Jomar Delluba’s distinct pop art style demonstrates his affinity with movements and dynamism, combining it with a light-hearted aesthetic. After a year of learning drafting technology in college, he started joining and winning drawing contests in his province of...
Onard Bancaya
Onard is a graduate of Philippine Womens University Taft, Bachelor of Fine Arts major in Industrial Design in 2008. A multitalented artist, Onard creates digital art, sculptures, paintings, and graffiti. He founded and designed for Needle Teeth and Set Apart clothing...
Reybert Ramos
Reybert Ramos (b. 1981) first received formal training in painting in the Philippine High School for the Arts. After finishing his secondary education, Ramos continued his fine arts education in the University of the Philippines Diliman. But despite these years spent...
Raul Lebajo
An important figure of the late Modernist period of Philippine history between the 1970s and 1980s, Raul Lebajo was often compared to the likes of National Artists Vicente Manansala, Victorio Edades, and Cesar Legaspi. Lebajo was also contemporaries with National...
Michael Cacnio
Filipino artist and 2006 TOYM Awardee Michael Cacnio is a world-class brass sculptor of the social realist genre. Hailing from the town of Malabon in the Philippines, Cacnio is a product of the prestigious College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines in...
Luisito Balmes
“Sometimes, what we want is not what is best for us. But we are fulfilled when we learn to go with the flow.” Luis Balmes is over 50 years old. His art is inspired by the philosophy of working with life, open to the chances presented, rather than imposing upon it his...
Karina Baluyut
Baluyut is among the original members of the Guevarra Group of Artists from the time of its inception, and one of the first to have exhibited their works at Galerie Joaquin. A graduate in architecture from the University of the Philippines, and subsequently a...
Isabel Campa
The difficult-to-control medium of watercolor forms the basis of Campa’s works. That she masters the medium is an extraordinary achievement in itself, showing her strong technical orientation. Campa prefers macro compositions, giving her audience a close-up of...
Juvenal Sansó
Juvenal Sanso was born in Reus, Catalonia, Spain in 1929, but moved to Manila five years later, where his family established a wrought-iron business. He spent most of his younger years with private tutors, until his enrollment as a special student at the UP School of...
Carlo Ongchangco
Carlo Ongchangco’s art is whimsical but not frivolous. His works borrow from the visual language of children’s book illustration, graphic design, cartoon and Japanese pop art. He uses subdued colours that create a wistful, nostalgic mood for the caricature subjects...
Kara de Dios
(b. 1984) Kara de Dios is a Visual Communications graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, her thesis for which bagged her the 2008 UP CFA Juror’s Choice for Best Thesis. A traditionally-trained artist, graphic designer, and web developer,...
Camille Ver
Camille Ver (b. 1980) is one of the foremost contemporary abstractionists in the Philippines. In recent years, Ver's oeuvre has been primarily concerned with architectural abstraction. Aggressively abstracting the lines and forms of cityscapes, Ver bucks the common...
Arturo Luz
In 1997, Arturo Rogero Luz was named the seventh National Artist for Visual Arts (Painting). Before Luz, the first painter to receive the National Artist award was Fernando Amorsolo (1972), Victorio Edades (1976), Vicente Manansala (1981), Cesar Legaspi (1990) and...
Rom Villaseran
With his intensely narrative practice, painter Rom Villaseran manages to carve out a niche for his neo-surrealist concepts and aesthetics. The University of the Philippines-trained painter is apt to use broad strokes, but paradoxically tempers them with fragile lines...