Arahmaiani (b. 1961 Bandung, Indonesia) took a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). She studied later in Sydney and Enschede, the Netherlands. She works in areas of performance, installation, and painting. She lives and works in Jogjakarta, Tiber, and Heidelberg.

Muhammad Fatchi Baradja (b. 1989 in Bandung, Indonesia) studied at the Printmaking Department at ITB. He works mainly in drawing and printmaking. His works explore themes of family, religiosity, and nationalism. He lives and works in Bandung.

Sebald Beham (b. 1500 – d. 1550), his brother, Barthel, and their friend, Georg Pencz, were students of Dürer, who lived in Nuremberg too, artists who had absorbed what he was doing technically. Their prints, however, are almost always small—hence them being described as “Little Masters.” They worked for connoisseurs of prints rather than the popular market, (Dürer had worked for both) making prints that are sophisticated and often witty, shocking, or sexy.

Boo Sze Yang (b. 1965) graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1991; he completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at the University of Reading, United Kingdom in 1995, and received his Master of Arts Degree from Chelsea College of Arts, the University of the Arts London in 2004. Boo has held 14 solo exhibitions and exhibited internationally since 1991. Boo lives and works in Singapore.

Lyle Buencamino (b. 1978) graduated from UP CFA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Painting in 2005. His first solo exhibition A Bowtie for John Lyle (2006) received an International Studio Residency Grant from the Ateneo Art Awards (2007), which granted him an artist residency in a studio at La Trobe University in Bendigo, Australia. He lives and works in Singapore and Manila.

Valeria Cavestany’s (b. Barcelona) artistic vocation began in her studies on textile design in Escuela de Diseno Textil in Barcelona. These roots influence her fascination towards patterns and throughout the evolution of her works she represents textile in her montage pieces. Her background on Textile Design allowed her to turn and return to painting on canvas, which is after all a textile material. 

Amidst the recurring floral, still life scenes and portrait pattern, she likewise is known for her depiction of Chinese women. This can be referenced to her education on Chinese painting in Manila from and her accomplishment of a degree in AB Asian History in the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She recounts that her fascination with Chinese culture has been with her since she can remember and that “China epitomized to me the other, the extreme Orient, a faraway magical land with ancient traditions, a land inhabited by beautiful women with tiny feet and strange customs so different from my Mediterranean roots.”

Her works have been shown extensively from 1990 to presently in Manila galleries such as Finale Art File, Ayala Museum, Manila Contemporary and Galleria Duemila. In Spain, she exhibited in Supermercado del Arte (La Coruna, Barcelona and Madrid) and Casa Asia. Other participation include Ainscough Gallery in London, Museo de la Acuarela in Mexico, the 2005 Flag Festival in Eppingen and Ilayda Sanat galerisi in Istanbul. 

She exhibited with a group of Filipinos loosely called the bastards of misrepresentation in New York, then in the MOAM ( Museum of Art Modestes ) in Sete France.

Maria Chevska (b. 1948, London) is an artist living and working in London. She attended Byam Shaw School of Art, and from 1990 until 2016 she was a Professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Foremost a painter, she often exhibits her sculpture and installation alongside her paintings. Her works have specifically engaged with poetry, language, and selected writers that connect to, and exist in dialogue with: philosophy, memory, history, and current events. The works emerge through the intersection of idea, material, gesture, and process—a fluid and provisional relationship between the paintings and objects is sustained that will find a completion through the role of a viewer’s participation and reception of the works.

Solo exhibitions of her work include Air Gallery in 1982 and BWA Gallery in Wroclaw, Poland. In 2002 she participated in a touring exhibition of paintings and a new installation entitled Vera’s Room which took place in France at Maison de la Culture d’Amiens. Other group exhibitions she participated in include Art and Sea at John Hansard Gallery and ICA; Crossover (1991) at Anderson O’Day Gallery, and White Out (1995) at the Curwen Gallery. Chevska was awarded by the Arts Council in 1977, Greater London Arts Association in 179-84, Gulbenkian Foundation Printmakers in 1982 and British School at Rome in 1994. Many public and corporate collections include her work including Arts Council, Bolton City and Oldham Art Galleries. 

Significant projects since the early ‘90s include collaborations with artists, and writers leading to numerous publications; a monograph “Vera’s Room, the Art of Maria Chevska” was published by Black Dog in 2005.

Mariano Ching (b. 1971) graduated from the Fine Arts Program of University of the Philippines (UP) and studied at the Kyoto Arts University, Japan as a Research Student, Major in Printmaking. He has shown in both solo and group exhibitions at various galleries and institutions worldwide, such as the Singapore Art Museum, Valentine Willie Fine Art in Kuala Lumpur, Art Taipei, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Owen James Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, the Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Silverlens Manila and Singapore, as well as Finale Art File, among others.

Heman Chong is an artist, curator, and writer whose conceptually-charged investigations into how individuals and communities imagine the future generates a multiplicity of objects, images, installations, situations, and texts. He is currently guest curator at Witte de With Contemporary Art (Rotterdam) and Spring Workshop (Hong Kong) under the auspices of his program ‘Moderation(s)’.

Zean Cabangis (b. 1985) graduated from UP CFA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Painting in 2007. He was shortlisted for Ateneo Art Awards in 2012 and 2013. Cabangis lives and works in Manila.

Dennis De Caires (b. 1957 Georgetown, Guyana) studied Painting at the Winchester School of Art, The Royal College but did not graduate. He has exhibited extensively, including one-person shows at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado; The Umana Yana, Georgetown and The Barbados Museum and Historical Society in Barbados. He was given a retrospective at The National Gallery of Art in Georgetown in Guyana in 2009–2010.

Jeffrey Dennis (b. 1958, Colchester, England) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and lives in London. His past paintings have embedded glimpses of contemporary urban life within landscapes of processed peas, rotting fruit, or Victorian wallpaper designs and, more recently, the ‘bubblescape;’ an organic matrix which seems to offer the potential for continual mutation and evolution.

Adam Derums completed a Fine Arts Degree at the Curtin University of Technology in 1988 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education in 2002. He has had numerous exhibitions and has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally. An extensive monograph on the artist’s work over the last twenty years, A Remote Dawn, was published in 2011.

Heri Dono (b. 1960, Jakarta, Indonesia) is best known as a maker of installations often with moving machines or figures. He is also a painter and performance artist. For many years, he has exhibited internationally. Recent exhibitions include those in the UK, Germany, and Australia. He lives and works in Yogyakarta.

Heloise Godfrey-Talbot (b. 1979, Winchester, UK) studied English Literature then studied Fine Art at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff where she graduated in 2011. Godfrey-Talbot is an audiovisual artist and often works collaboratively with communities and other creative people. She lives and works in Cardiff.

Mark Golamco is an artist that was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked in New York City and currently lives in Los Angeles. A classically trained Viola player, he received a BA in Art from UCLA and an MFA in Painting from RISD. His musical background and visual art education led him to create performances that combine his original music with artwork that ranges from painting, drawing, dance and video. He has performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, The Judson Memorial Church, NY, Cafe Dancer, NY, Human Resources Los Angeles, PAM Residencies, LA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Palm Springs Art Museum, and the REDCAT, LA.

Filip Gudovic (b. 1992, Belgrade, Serbia) is currently finalising his Master of Fine Arts degree at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. His work deals with a form of relational painting and historically driven device of picture-making. He lives and works in Singapore and in Jakarta.

Louise Hopkins studied at the University of Northumbria before completing her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 1994. Hopkins was among six artists chosen to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Her work is held in collections internationally, including the Jumex Collection, Mexico and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent exhibitions include a solo presentation titled Settings at Mummery & Schnelle Gallery, London which opened in March 2014. Hopkins lives and works in Glasgow.

Nilo Ilarde (b. 1960) is a conceptual artist and curator whose works navigate the intersections between image and word, drawing and writing, and surface and painting. Using both found and constructed objects, he assembles amalgams of image and text that  comment on both the formal and conceptual conditions of art and language. He strips and mines his subjects to reveal their history and materiality and in the process creates forms of both declaration and negation. 

Ilarde studied Painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. Since the 80s, he has been exhibiting his works and curating exhibitions at various galleries and alternative spaces in Manila, including the Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Pinaglabanan Galleries, Finale Art File, West Gallery, Mag;net, MO_Space, Art Informal, and Underground. His works have also been featured in several international exhibitions and art fairs including solo presentations at Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Stage Singapore, both in 2015 and at Art Fair Philippines in 2018.  He is also the co-founder of King Kong Art Projects Unlimited and was one of the lead curators of ‘Chabet: 50 Years’ in various venues in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Manila from 2011–2012.

Geraldine Javier (b. 1970, Philippines) lives and work in the Philippines. Javier has held many solo and group exhibitions in her home country since 1995, and since 2004, she has been exhibiting her works internationally. She is recognized as one of the most celebrated Southeast Asian artists both in the academic and art fields. Her works revolve around the universal world of spirituality rather than concentrating on a specific religion. Javier’s interests root from the artist’s personal history of having lived her whole life struggling with the catholic culture in the Philippines, and are manifested through the unique region-specificity of Southeast Asia, in which the influx of Western culture has been naturalized. In other words, Javier goes beyond the logic behind religion, to pursue fundamental values that can be collectively embraced.

Javier was one of the artists who received the Thirteen Artists Award of Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2003.

Mark Justiniani (b. 1966, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines) studied Arts Education at UP CFA. A one-time member of the Salingpusa group, he now spends as much time making vitrines, often playing with visual paradoxes and multiplications. Having spent some time living and working in USA, he now lives and works in Manila.

Jonathan Lasker (b. 1948, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA) attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, as well as the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Best known for his abstract paintings, he has also frequently written on art, painting, and abstraction. He lives and works in New York City.

Lucas Van Leyden (1494–1533) was a painter based in Leiden, Holland. But he was best known as a printmaker, and as such was the main competitor to Dürer in the early sixteenth century. As well as religious prints, he was one of the first to make genre engraving of peasants at play and work.

Lawrence Liu is a Singapore-born photographer and artist, a graduate from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. He has been exhibiting actively in Singapore and overseas, and recently been awarded 2nd Place in the Advertising Product category from the International Photography Award 2013 in USA organized by the Lucie Foundation.

Joy Mallari has exhibited extensively in the Philippines and the USA. Primarily a painter, she now often works with video. A children’s book (Doll Eyes) she illustrated has won awards. She lives and works in Manila.

Keiye Miranda (b. 1976) received her BA in Fine Arts, major in Studio Arts from UP in 1998. She has facilitated a handful of projects by the Neo-Angono Artists Collective since 2007 and has had over 6 solo exhibitions since 1996. Her works have also been featured in group shows locally and abroad, such as the CCP, the Vargas Museum, Goliath Visual Space in Brooklyn and Richard Koh Fine Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. She lives and works in Angono, Rizal.

It is with timelessness that Elaine Roberto-Navas (b. 1964) works her brush and palette over canvas. With subjects ranging from flowers to furniture, from the sky to water, she paints with oil in thick strokes; the object appears swathed in movement. Still life or landscape as they may be considered, they move with each glance, and if you stare, the motion starts to permeate outside the four corners of her paintings. What Roberto-Navas captures in her work is not merely an object in nature, but its spirit in movement, and together with her technique, artistry, and will, her paintings exist in a timelessness that might outlive us all, yet carry our humanity onwards.

Elaine Roberto-Navas graduated with BA in Psychology from Ateneo de Manila University (1985), and a Fine Arts degree, Major in Painting from the University of the Philippines (1991). Roberto-Navas has received various awards including the Jurors’ Choice Awards from the Art Association of the Philippines (1994, 1995), the Honorable Mention from the Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards (1995), and the Honorable Mention from the Philip Morris Singapore Art Awards (2002). She has shown at the Ayala Museum, Silverlens Gallery, Finale Art File, MO_Space, Art Informal, West Gallery, UP Vargas Museum, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and Valentine Willie Fine Art in Singapore to name a few.

Alan Oei (b. 1976) is a Singapore based artist-curator whose work and projects focuses on art history, politics, and community. He has a BA in Art History from Columbia University and a Diploma in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts. Currently, he is curator of Sculpture Square in Singapore.

Milenko Prvacki (b. 1951, Yugoslavia) graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Institutul de Arte Plastice Nicolae Grigorescu in Bucharest, Romania. He is one of Singapore’s foremost artists and art educators, having taught at LASALLE College of the Arts since 1994. He has exhibited extensively in Europe since 1971, and in Singapore and the region since 1993.

David Reed (b. 1946, San Diego, USA) obtained a BA at Reed College and studied at the New York Studio School. Solo exhibitions include the Kunstmuseum Bonn (for his retrospective) and Hausler Contemporary, Munich. Select group exhibitions include McMaster Museum of Art, Ontario; Tate St.Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom; and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. He lives and works in New York.

Zhao Renhui (b. 1983) is a Singaporean visual artist who works mainly with photography, but often adopts a multidisciplinary approach by presenting image together with documents and objects. Recent international exhibitions have included the UK, Brazil, Japan, Korea and the USA.

Arturo Sanchez, Jr. (b. 1980) graduated from Technological Institute of the Philippines with a BS in Architecture. He recently won the grand prize of the Philippine Art Awards 2014. Sanchez has made it his life’s work to explore the mysteries of the looking glass. Each of his pieces operates on multiple layers: there is a painted canvas, a reflective surface, a collage within the reflective surface, and the reflection itself. Sanchez lives and works in Angono, Rizal.

Ivan Sagito (b. 1957) pursued his interest in art at ISI Yogyakarta (1979–1985). The main theme of his paintings is death. In 2009–2011, he researched on pulung gantung, a myth originating from Gunung Kidul, South Yogyakarta, where the occurrences of orbs (“spirit balls”) is believed to be a sign of an impending suicide. Sagito lives and works in Yogyakarta.

Yasmin Sison (b. 1972) graduated from the University of the Philippines, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities and then in the Fine Arts, Major in Painting. She was a member of the collective Surrounded by Water, and is the recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2006). She was also shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards (2007).  

Sison has shown in both solo and group exhibitions locally and abroad since 1996, in spaces such as West Gallery, Valentine Willie Fine Arts in Malaysia, Artesan Gallery in Singapore, Artinformal, Manila Contemporary, Silverlens Gallery, Blanc Gallery, and the Owen James Gallery in New York, to name a few. She has participated in international group exhibitions in Belgium (2000), Singapore (2002), and Italy (2009). 

Aminuddin Siregar—better known as “Ucok”—is an artist, curator, and lecturer at ITB, where he runs Soemardja space. A graduate of the printmaking department at ITB, his own work has generally been of a conceptual or activist bent.

Andre Tanama (b. 1982) is a fine art lecturer at Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta and creates visual artworks in various media such as drawing, printmaking, painting, and sculpture. His work has been shown in many exhibitions in Indonesia and other countries, including Malaysia, Singapore, Italy, Switzerland, the USA, Netherlands, and Portugal.

Bridget Tay is born and based in Singapore. She is an artist, curator and AMIS certified art educator with 10 years of teaching experience.

She obtained her Masters of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2014 and was a recipient of The LASALLE Scholarship in 2013. She is also the owner of The Bench Atelier, a creative services firm.

Willy Tay completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Fine Art from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT). He also holds a Diploma in Fine Art, Painting from the LASALLE College of the Arts. Tay exhibits widely, and has participated in group shows in various countries such as China, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand, with works in other private collections. Tay lives and works in Singapore.

Estelle Thompson (b. 1960, West Bromwich, England) is a British Post War & Contemporary painter who lives and works in London. She studied at Sheffield City Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. Teaching has been an important adjunct to her art practice. She has held posts at St. Martin’s School of Art, De Montfort University, and the Ruskin School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Since 1996, she has been a part-time lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Thompson uses a rigorous process using bands or fields of colour to create visually complex and luminous abstract paintings. She had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Wetterling Gallery at Stockholm, Sweden, L’apres moderne, Projet Midi at Brussels, Belgium, Felim Egan, Estelle Thompson at Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, New York, and Punctuation Paintings, Purdy Hicks Gallery at London, UK.

Thompson also received awards and commissions such as the Milton Keynes Theatre in London, Prudential Award for the Arts, and Arts Council Special Award. Examples of her work have been acquired by a number of major collections including the British Museum, the Arts Council, the British Council and the New York Public Library.

Bambang “Toko” Witjaksono (b. 1973) received BA from Indonesian Institute of Art, Printmaking Department, Yogyakarta, and later a Masters of Fine Art from ITB. He works as printmaker and painter, often with a conceptual thought process. He also teaches at ISI and is the current curator for ARTJOG.

Wire Tuazon (b. 1973) is an artist and curator. He graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Major in Painting. He is the founder of the artist collective Surrounded by Water in the 1990s, and was the President, and now Adviser, for the Neo-Angono Artists Collective. He was a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2003), the Sangguniang Bayan Award for Visual Arts, and the residency grant of the Ashiya City Museum of Art and History from the Japan Foundation Asia Center (2001). 

Tuazon has participated in international exhibitions in Milan, Beijing, Singapore, and Hong Kong, as well as locally, at events like the Tupada International Visual Performance Festival (2005, 2009), Art Stage Singapore (2015), and at spaces such as the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Silverlens Gallery, Pinto Art Gallery, and Finale Art File, Artesan Gallery + Studio, and Osage Hong Kong, to name a few. 

Ian Woo (b. 1967, Singapore) graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1991 and has obtained a Masters in European Fine Art at the Winchester School of Art and a research practice DFA with RMIT University. His works explore the language of abstraction with an interest in painting’s inherent ability to suggest modes of representation.

Raymond Yap is an educator at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and an artist interested in using materials for his practice. He graduated with Bachelor of Fine Art Honours from the Wimbledon College of Art in 1998, the Royal Academy of Arts with a Master’s Degree in 2001, and attained his Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education from Nanyang Technological University in 2010. He lives and works in Singapore.

MM Yu (b. 1978) lives and works in Manila, Philippines. Her photographs evoke the ever-changing cultural texture and topology of Manila as seen through its inhabitants, the city’s infrastructure and its waste product as it archives not only the economy but also the ecology of life in the myriad forms it takes in the city. 

These recorded static scenarios show through their thematic variety the artist’s interest in discovering and valuing the fleeting moment present even in its simplest components. The diverse elements in her works not only underscore the inability of photography to account for fractured temporality. Through her ongoing interest in deciphering the enigma of the unseen landscape of ordinary things, they also force us to rethink what our minds already know and rediscover what our eyes have already seen.

The impact lies in how photography is employed to investigate another subject namely that of memory. By consolidating a series of routine snapshots traversing the streets of Manila. The 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.

MM Yu received her BFA Painting from the University of the Philippines and completed residencies with Big Sky Mind, Manila (2003), Common Room Bandung Residency Grant and Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France (2013). She is a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artist Award (2009), the Goethe Institute Workshop Grant (2014), and the Ateneo Art Awards (winner in 2007, shortlisted in 2011). She was also a finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2010).

Maria Jeona Zoleta (b. 1989) graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. She is a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Grant to participate in Bastards of Misrepresentation: New York Edition (2012), the Ateneo Art Awards (2014), and the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2015).

Zoleta’s multimedia work is instantly recognizable with its neon pastel hues, deceivingly girlish subject matter replete with sexual imagery and pop culture references, among her many millennial obsessions. Whimsical installations that incorporate painting, video and performance art are par for the course for Zoleta. Her work is intensely personal, though not private, reflecting her fantasies in an explosion of color and material, and always delivered with a light-hearted, cheerful touch.

Zoleta has shown in solo and group exhibitions at Silverlens Gallery, Valentine Willie Fine Art in Singapore, the Musée International des Arts Modestes in France, and 1335Mabini.