Artists

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...

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’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...

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,...

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 (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...

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.

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 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 (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...

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 (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...

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...

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’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 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...

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...

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'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 (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 (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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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’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...

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...

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 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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...