I Object
Various Artists
Poklong Anading, Alfredo Aquilizan, Felix Bacolor, Ringo Bunoan, Bea Camacho, Valeria Cavestany, Mariano Ching, Yasmin Sison, Lena Cobangbang, Louie Cordero, Aba Lluch Dalena, Kiri Lluch Dalena, Patricia Eustaquio, Nona Garcia, Nilo Ilarde, Eugene Jarque, Geraldine Javier, Lani Maestro, Pow Martinez, Lui Medina, Lubin Nepomuceno, Leeroy New, Manuel Ocampo, Jayson Oliveria, Bernardo Pacquing, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Lara de los Reyes, Norberto Roldan, Stanley Ruiz, Juni Salvador, Hubert San Juan, Sleepyheads & Broke, SolerSantos, Maria Taniguchi, Mac Valdezco, Gail Vicente, Marija Vicente, MM Yu, Reg Yuson, Eric Zamuco
Poklong Anading, Alfredo Aquilizan, Felix Bacolor, Ringo Bunoan, Bea Camacho, Valeria Cavestany, Mariano Ching, Yasmin Sison, Lena Cobangbang, Louie Cordero, Aba Lluch Dalena, Kiri Lluch Dalena, Patricia Eustaquio, Nona Garcia, Nilo Ilarde, Eugene Jarque, Geraldine Javier, Lani Maestro, Pow Martinez, Lui Medina, Lubin Nepomuceno, Leeroy New, Manuel Ocampo, Jayson Oliveria, Bernardo Pacquing, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Lara de los Reyes, Norberto Roldan, Stanley Ruiz, Juni Salvador, Hubert San Juan, Sleepyheads & Broke, SolerSantos, Maria Taniguchi, Mac Valdezco, Gail Vicente, Marija Vicente, MM Yu, Reg Yuson, Eric Zamuco
19 – 24 February 2014
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19 – 24 February 2014

Ten statements on the subject of objects and as a speculative extrapolation on the title.
1. I, Object proffers a state of being: that of the affirmation of the object / an object as existing, as something physically experienced, of this physical world, made, manufactured, with a specific purpose or none at all but other than as a subject of spectacle.
2. I, Object as a declaration of renunciation, though renouncing to which or to what is unclear or it is rather a general statement of defiance. Is it a defiance of its sole being as an object, aspiring to a transcendence from material to language, from sensorial function to logical function? Or is it rather a defiance of the context of its placement, though rather paradoxically in a market, in a place of trading?
3. I, object, to be “owned, to be had, to be held and to be shown-off” (from Douglas Rushkoff) in the prime territory of trading and selling, where its values are predetermined by other material / non-material factors, such as brand association, prestige, power, and influence.
4. According to Anish Kapoor, artists are not making objects but rather mythologies. Consider then the readymade, a commonplace object taken out of its utilitarian function and rendered as something more valuable than it really was by its mere transposition—from form to language, from material to symbol, from toilet to the gallery, from the supermarket to the art fair. It’s rather like Eucharistic transubstantiation, from a thin wafer made of flour and water to the metaphorical body of a deity, a metamorphosis invested in by sole belief. But artists are not gods.
5. Objects are products of labor, of a production forced out of necessity in exchange for a certain value, in compensation for material and production cost, then for a lifetime of subsistence on such an exchange system as succinctly put by Sol LeWitt: “to produce objects in order to live.” What then is an excess of this to make of it? Is it a utopia of abundance or rather the dystopia of unwanted surplus? Alife out of suffocating materialism?
6. According to Eugenio Montale, “Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.” Hence, our way of life is ceaseless consumption. The way to transcendence is consumption.
7. “Within this widest concept of object, and, specifically within the concept of individual object, objects and phenomenon stand in contrast with each other” (Edmund Husserl).Hence, phenomena is the spectacle of the object, where viewership is a form of theatre, the subject of viewing.
8. An object lesson is a teaching method that consists of using a physical object or visual aid as a discussion piece for a lesson, or taking an example from real life that teaches a lesson or explains something. The object lesson approach is promoted in the educational philosophy of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who held that teaching should begin with the observation of objects, which helps students recognize concepts. So is art-viewing a form of object lesson? What is the lesson to be learned from such? Is it mostly about observation? Or does it also broach the changing perceptions and attitudes that invariably influence value systems?
9. “Culture is related to objects and is a phenomenon of the world, entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life” (Hannah Arendt). Entertainment is culture; all these objects are props for such.
10. For everything there is a price, if the price is right.
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- Toss Bombing
Poklong Anading
Found coin cast on lead, drinking glass, and cup plastic cover
2008 - Mug
Bea Camacho
Crocheted yarn
4" x 4" x 4.5"
2014 - Cross #15
Valeria Cavestany
Mixed media
15" x 13"
2013 - Structure #12
Mariano Ching and Yasmin Sison
Paper mache, encaustic and wood
Variable dimensions
2014 - Structure #13
Mariano Ching and Yasmin Sison
Paper mache, encaustic and wood
Variable dimensions
2014 - Tired Hands
Louie Cordero
Acrylic on wood
10" x 7"
2014 - Figure in Five Parts
Kiri Dalena
Painted terra cotta
152.4 x 101.6 x 38.1 mm
2014 - Detritus (Studio Series)
Patricia Eustaquio
Acrylic and oil draped on wire mesh
9" x 12" x 3"
2014 - Freetime
Eugene Jarque
Wood, skateboard trucks and wheels
Variable dimensions
2014 - I՚m Late, I՚m Late!
Geraldine Javier
Wire, skeletonized & preserved leaves on canvas, book
19" x 12" x 17"
2014 - The Goose with Golden Shit
Geraldine Javier
Wire, skeletonized leaves, oil on canvas
16" x 20" x 11"
2014 - Welcome to Paradise
Pow Martinez
Wood, canvas, oil, acrylic, found object
Variable dimensions
2014 - Seraph
Leeroy New
Fiberglass, polyurethane paint
15½" x 10" x 10"
2014 - Yolo
Manuel Ocampo
8½ right foot shoes, colored photograph
Variable dimensions
2014 - Emmentaler
Bernardo Pacquing
Narra parquet
4½" x 4½" x 4½"
2014 - Paperweight
Gary-Ross Pastrana
Plaster of paris
3" x 3" x 3"
2014 - Ballentine Ales (After Jasper John)
Lara de los Reyes
Ceramic
Variable dimensions
2009 - Bliss (poo)
Lara de los Reyes
Ceramic, acrylic
Variable Dimensions
2009 - Meditation on a Pair of Shoes
Norberto Roldan
Found objects (acrylic boxes and merchandise found in Muji store)
10" x 6⅔" x 1¾" each box (diptych)
2014 - Double Happiness
Stanley Ruiz
Brass
4" x 6" x ¼"
2014 - Controlled Aggression
Hubert San Juan
Recycled GI tie wire (set of 3)
Variable dimensions
2014 - Untitled
Soler Santos
Inkjet on wood
8" x 8"
2014 - Ghost
Mac Valdezco
Paper twine, nylon, plastic
Variable dimensions
2014 - In Memory of the Artfair, Do You Understand
Gail Vicente
Mixed media (beeswax, wood, paint)
5" x 5" x 5"
2014
- Work is Good but Money is Better
Marija Vicente
Acrylic and ink on money
2½" x 5½"
2014 - Temple Trap Series
Reg Yuson
Mild steel and automobile paint
15½" x 7½" x 7½"
2014 - Within Without
Eric Zamuco
Glass
6" x 6½" x 4½"
2007 - Wrong Book
Jayson Oliveria
Photograph and book
8¼" x 5½"
2014 - In Advance of the Things We Cannot See
Ringo Bunoan
Artist booklet;
40 pages, signed limited
6" x 4½"
2013 - Painted Sculpture WETPAINTDRYPAINT #3
Lubin Nepomuceno
Mixed media
19" x 8" x 12"
2014 - Crown and Sceptre
Lena Cobangbang
Embroidery on cotton visor, acrylic on plastic
Variable dimensions
2014 - Before the Sea
Nona Garcia
Framed photo on canvas
Approx. 5½" x 15"
2012 - Buhay Aso
Aba Lluch Dalena
Terra cotta, acrylic
Approx. 8" x 4" x 3½"
2010 - Good Shit Redux
Juni Salvador
PVC toy, metal screw, oil paint, aerosol paint, canvas, glass and wood
7" x 7" x 4"
2014 - Sleepy & Broke (Seesaw Album) ¼
Sleepy & Broke
Coconut husk with MP3 player
Approx. 6" x 6" x 6"
2013 - Crushed Beetle (M₂ Machine)
Nilo Ilarde
Die cast toy in resin
5¾" x 3¾" x ¾"
2014 - Untitled (Isolates) III
Lui Medina
Oil, beeswax, metal leaf, pigment on plaster
Variable dimensions
2014 - Askal
Aba Lluch Dalena
Terra cotta
17" x 11" x 7"
2002 - Variable Series Collection from 2000–2014
MM Yu
Photobooks
1" x 1½"
2000–2014
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About the Artist
About the Artists

Poklong Anading’s (b. 1975, Manila, Philippines) practice utilizes a wide range of media from drawing, painting, video, installation, photography and object-making. Taking a more process-oriented and conceptual approach, his continuing inquiry takes off from issues on self-reflexivity, both of himself and others, and site-specificity in an ongoing discussion about society, time and territory.
He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in painting from the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines (1999). He completed residencies with Big Sky Mind, Manila, Philippines (2003 to 2004), Common Room, Bandung, Indonesia (2008), Bangkok University Gallery, Thailand (2013), Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia (2013), Philippine Art Residency Program - Alliance Francaise de Manille in Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle in France (2014) and das weisse haus, Vienna Austria (2018). He had solo exhibitions in Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, Austria (2010, 2012 and 2020), Taro Nasu in Japan and Athr Gallery in Jeddah (2016), 1335MABINI in Manila, Philippines (2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019). He has been included in notable group exhibitions such as: Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2002 and 2012), No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, the first exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore (2013 to 2014), 5th Asian Art Biennial: Artist Making Movement, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2015), The Shadow Never Lies, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Afterwork, Para Site, Hong Kong, China and in the Architecture Biennale for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Philippine Pavilion: Muhon: Traces of an Adolescent City at Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy (2016), disco nap, ‘We Didn’t Mean To Break It (But It’s Ok, We Can Fix It), Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal (2019), Far Away But Strangely Familiar’, Danubiana Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia (2019), Normal scheduling will resume shortly, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila (2019) and Arts in Common Artjog MMXIX, Jogya Nationa Museum, Jogyakarta, Indonesia (2019),
Anading lives and works in Manila.

Maria Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan (b. 1965, Manila) and Alfredo Juan Aquilizan (b. 1962, Cagayan Valley, the Philippines) have lived and worked in Brisbane Australia since 2006. The artists have worked collaboratively for over a decade and their projects use the processes of collecting and collaborating to express ideas of migration, family, home, and memory. Often working with local communities, the Aquilizans bring together personal items and found objects to compose elaborate, formal installations reflecting individual experiences of dislocation and change. They have also used the materials of migration such as packing boxes, referencing the Philippine tradition of the Balikbayan. They have been selected for large exhibitions internationally, including the Havana Biennale (1997, 2000), the Asia-Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (1999 & 2009), 50th Venice Biennale (Zones of Urgency, 2003), Biennale of Sydney (2006); the Echigo-Tsumari Triennale in Japan (2006), Singapore Biennale (2008), Adelaide Biennial (2008); the Liverpool Biennal in the UK (2010), the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and the Sharjah Biennale in the United Arab Emirates (2013), among others. They have also exhibited in numerous international institutions, such as the Singapore Art Museum, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) in Sydney, Australia, Asian Arts Museum in Fukuoka, Japan, the 21st Century Museum in Kanazawa, Japan, and more.

Felix Bacolor (b. 1967) finished his BFA in Painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. His works have been shown at different international galleries through solo and group exhibitions including, the Valentine Willie Fine Art Project Room, the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, La Salle College of the Arts, Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong, Finale Art File, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Galleria Duemila, and Artinformal.

Ringo Bunoan (b. 1974) is an artist, writer, researcher, and curator whose work explores material and conceptual histories and issues of visibility and representation. Through common and found objects, installations, site-specific projects, photographs, and videos, she examines and reflects on the transient conditions of contemporary art and everyday life.
Bunoan received her BFA in Art History from the University of the Philippines in 1997 and has exhibited widely in Manila, Asia and the United States. Her works have been featured in several international exhibitions and biennales, including the recent Time of Others at the Singapore Art Museum and Queensland Art Gallery and Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia at the Mori Art Museum. She is the recipient of the Thirteen Artist award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2003.
She taught at the UP College in Arts and worked as the Researcher for the Philippines for Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. She is the co-founder of Big Sky Mind (1999–2005), King Kong Art Projects Unlimited (2010–present), and artbooks.ph (2014–present). She was the lead curator of Chabet: 50 Years, a series of exhibitions in Manila, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and the inaugural Manila Biennale: Open City in 2018.

Bea Camacho (b. 1983, Manila, Philippines) is a visual artist who works in installation, performance, and video. She received her B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University, where she was awarded the Albert Alcalay Prize for Outstanding work in Studio Art and the David McCord Prize for Achievement in the Arts.
She is a recipient of the Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She was also selected as an exhibiting artist for the 2006 Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York City and for the 2009 International Women Artists Biennale in Incheon, Korea. Recently, her exhibition at MO_Space, Memento Obliviscere, was shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2018.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries internationally, including the Japan Society (New York), Osage Gallery (Hong Kong and Singapore), Ikkan Art Gallery (Singapore), Valentine Willie Fine Arts (Kuala Lumpur and Manila), Silverlens (Manila), Finale Gallery (Manila), MO_Space (Manila), and Green Papaya Art Projects (Manila). She has also shown her work in institutions including the Cultural Center of the Philippines, National Museum of the Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila, the Musee d'Art Moderne in St. Etienne, Kyoto Art Center, Hangaram Museum, EuGon Museum of Photography, Triennale di Milano Design Museum, Queens Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Tate Modern.

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.

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.

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).

Lena Cobangbang (b. 1976, Philippines) studied Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman QC. Her work is broad-ranging, moving across video, installation, and found objects to embroidery, cookery, performance and photography. Integral to her art practice is doing collaborations with other artists, such as with Yasmin Sison under the created fictional identity as Alice and Lucinda; and with Mike Crisostomo as The Weather Bureau.
Apart from making art, she writes and works as an independent curator. A part of the seminal artist collective Surrounded By Water, her art practice extends to doing art administration and exhibit organizing, having been a fellow at the 2008 HAO Summit for emerging artists, curator and art managers in Asia in Singapore in 2008, and having undergone an artist/curator research residency exchange between Green Papaya Art Projects and Pekarna-Magdalenske Mreže in Maribor, Slovenia in 2010. She was also part of the touring exhibit, Bastards of Misrepresentation, curated by Manuel Ocampo which has been held in Berlin, Hamburg, Bangkok and New York and the Manila Vice show in Sète, France.
In 2005, she was nominated for the 3rd Ateneo Art Awards. She received the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award in 2006, and was one of the participating artists in the 2008 Singapore Biennale. She did curatorial projects for galleries Pablo, Post Gallery, Galerie Anna, Galerie Roberto, Art Anton, and Secret Fresh in Manila, Philippines. She was part of a residency program hosted by Langgeng Art Foundation in Jogjakarta in 2016.

Painter and sculptor Louie Cordero began an active exhibiting career while pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines. After graduating in 2001, he became a core member of the painting collective Surrounded by Water and artist-in-residence with the artist-run initiative Big Sky Mind. His work explored imagery and narratives at the nexus of Philippine Catholicism, politics, mass culture, mining the collective consciousness of the Pinoy everyman with a humorous edge. He won the Grand Prize (Painting), 8th Annual Freeman Foundation Vermont Studio Centre in 2002-3. In 2005, he co-founded Future Prospects alternative art space. He is the creator of Nardong Tae, the underground comics of cult status in the Philippines.
Fascinated with kitschy outsider aesthetics and colonial-era leftovers, acrylic has become Cordero's medium of choice in painting since 2005 as he turned towards the super-flat aesthetics of spray-painted Philippine jeepneys and other waning commercial art forms. He received the Cultural Centre of the Philippines 13 Artists Awards in 2006 and earlier. Solo exhibitions overseas include DELUBYO (Giant Robot, Los Angeles, 2008), Actuality/Virtuality (3 Sogoku Warehouse, Fukuoka, 2003), Soft Death (Osage, Hong Kong and Singapore, 2009) and Sacred Bones (Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, 2010). The recent years display an intensity in the bricolage-method of image construction that takes us through a thrill ride through unbridled imaginations and rerouted libidos, coupled with awkward rendering and visionary courage. His work has been included in World of Painting, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australia, 2008; Coffee, Cigarettes and Pad Thai, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, 2008; Singapore Biennale 2011; the 14th Jakarta Biennale, 2011; and PANORAMA, Singapore Art Museum, 2012.
Cordero’s puzzling, imploring, and visually striking juxtapositions are often punctuated by blood and gore, as if to imply the history of violence and bloodshed that his nation and people have sustained. Cordero’s artwork makes references to his native Philippines, a nation rich with diversity—the result of multiple changes in political regime and subjugation throughout its history. With a complex mixture of eastern and western influences, the cultural fabric of The Republic of The Philippines is a unique combination of ethnic heritage and traditions, composed of indigenous folklore, Asian customs and Spanish legacy reflective in the names and religion.
Figures from Filipino mythology and its strong oral tradition are referenced through the artist’s gruesome monsters and zombies, while another source of inspiration derived from his nationality involves the Jeepney (U.S. military vehicles abandoned after WWII, and converted by locals to use as public transportation). Each Jeepney, unique and elaborately decorated in vibrant colors, features an ornate mash-up of pop and religious iconography. By combining these elements, varied and obscure (to Westerners), with imagery appropriated from Cordero’s assorted interests including kitsch, Indian advertising, cult American b-movies, and pulp horror, the contrasting influences reflect the complex diversity of the artist’s heritage itself.

Sabana “Aba” Lluch Dalena (b. 1972) is a multi-faceted Filipino artist – a visual artist, art teacher, musician, and art organizer. Dalena demonstrates her ease with wielding and spanning seemingly contradictory elements: sculpture and painting, figuration and abstraction, solitary works and collaborative pieces.
The artist obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of the Philippines - Diliman campus. She also took a special course on Drawing at the Art Students League of New York, U.S.A.
Dalena’s latest solo art exhibition entitled Fragile was held in May 2017 at the West Gallery which reflects on the human condition.

Kiri Lluch Dalena (b. 1975) is a Filipino filmmaker and visual artist. Dalena graduated from the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños with a Bachelors in Human Ecology. She then pursued further studies in 16mm documentary film making at the Mowelfund Film Institute. She is a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2012) and the Ateneo Art Awards (2009). Dalena’s films have been screened in various international film festivals such as the Tromsø International Film Festival (2015), Visions du Reel (2014), Naqsh Short Film Festival (2014), and in the Sharjah Biennale 11 Film Program (2013). She has represented the Philippines in different international art events such as the Singapore Biennale (2013), the Yokohama Triennale (2014), the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (2014), the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia (2015), and Busan Biennale (2016). Dalena’s works are currently in the permanent collections of the Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, and the Ateneo Art Gallery. She has various solo and group exhibitions in local and international galleries, such as Mag:net, Vargas Museum at UP, Finale Art File, 1335Mabini, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill in Graz, Austria, Ateneo Art Gallery, Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Now Gallery, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila Contemporary, the Lopez Memorial Museum, and the Singapore Art Museum.

Patricia Perez Eustaquio (b. 1977) is based in Manila who works with shadows, fragments, discards, and detritus, taking on such marginalized themes in a language that is at once evocative and familiar. She works in a variety of media, exploring materials through painting, drawing, and installation. She fashions sculpture from fabric, shrouding objects with crochet or silk treated with resin and then removes the object allowing the fabric to retain the folds and drapes. The resulting ghost (-piano, -chair, -birdcage) examines ideas of memory and perception.
Her similar approach to painting translates the rigid pictorial square to a fragmented object, where its bounding frame is removed or cut away, resulting into ornately shaped canvases haunted by imagery of discards and detritus, wilted blooms and carcasses.
Eustaquio’s work recalls the domestic as well as perhaps the psychic lives of objects by the repeated rehashing of memory where the familiar or the banal takes on a new substance, where the material and the immaterial coexist. She has been the recipient of awards for emerging artists, and of artists’ residency grants such as Art Omi in New York. She has had solo shows in Manila, Taiwan, Singapore, and New York, and has been part of several, notable group exhibitions including shows at the Hong Kong Art Centre (HKAC) and the Singapore Art Museum. Her work recently featured in The Vexed Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art & Design in Manila.
In 2016, she was commissioned to work on a site-specific installation at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The exhibit ran from 23 June to 22 September.

Nona Garcia (b. 1978) received a BFA in Painting at the University of the Philippines (UP). Her work has been shown and collected extensively throughout the region. She was the recipient of the Grand Prize for the Philip Morris Group of Companies ASEAN Art Award (2000), the Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artists Award (2003), and the residency program at Cross Currents, Bangkok (2004). Her work has been featured in numerous publications such as Post-Tsunami Art published by Damiani, Without Walls: A tour of Philippine Paintings at the Turn of the Millenium, and Phaidon’s Painting Today.
Garcia has shown at Finale Art File, West Gallery, the Prague Biennale (2009), G23 in Bangkok, the Primo Marella Milano, Valentine Willie Fine Art Singapore, Osage Gallery Singapore, the Bencab Museum in Baguio City, ARNDT Berlin, and Blanc Gallery, to name a few.

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.

Eugene Jarque is a Cavite-based artist. He graduated from the Technological University of the Philippines and is a faculty member of its Fine Arts Department. He was recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Awards (2006), and twice recognised in the Top 50 artists of the Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards (2002, 2005). He was among the Philippine artists involved in the third leg of the Wahana series, The Wahana Project (2005) held at the Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines. He has shown in solo and group exhibitions at various galleries including Blanc Gallery, Avellana Art Gallery, West Gallery, Mag:net Gallery, Finale Art File, and Republikha Art Gallery.

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.

Lani Maestro (b. 1957) is a Filipino artist based in Manila, Canada and France. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines, and then pursued art studies at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada. She received her Masters of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax where she taught. Maestro was also an instructor at Concordia University in Montreal. She was co-founder and designer of HARBOUR Magazine of Art and Everyday Life from 1990–1994. Maestro is an artist laureate of the prestigious NSCAD University’s honorary doctorate in Fine Arts (honoris causa) in Halifax, Canada, 2018. She is also a recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards for outstanding achievement (2012), and the Canada Council residency at THE SPACE, London (2008). She participated in the Beppu Project (2013), the Sharjah Biennal (2009), Busan Biennale (2004), the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane (1999), and the 11th International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1998), and the Segunda Bienal dela Habana in Cuba, where she received the Bienal Prize (1986). She has also had solo exhibitions at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), MCAD Manila, the Vargas Musuem at UP, and two commissioned site-specific works in Lorraine and l’Ardeche in France (2013). In 2017, she was one of the Philippine representatives at the 45th Venice Biennale with Manuel Ocampo. In the same year, she had a solo exhibit at MO_Space entitled “her rain”(slaughter) wherein she also showed her video art last 2011 from her show at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg and Centre A in Vancouver.

Pow Martinez (b. 1983, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in Manila) is a Filipino artist known for his expressionistic style of painting, blending bold colors with demonic, mutant-like characters to create compelling canvases. Often resembling a beautiful nightmare, Martinez combines the mundanities of everyday life with elements of pop culture, resulting in darkly humorous works depicting society’s overconsumption.
Martinez is a recipient of the 2010 Ateneo Art Award for his exhibition 1 Billion Years at West Gallery, Philippines. He exhibits internationally and has worked with different media, from painting to sound.
His recent exhibitions include State of Flux (2023) at Silverlens New York; City Prince/sses (2019) at Palais de Tokyo in Paris; Art Jakarta 2019 with Silverlens and ROH Projects; 50 Years in Hollywood (2019) at Pinto Art Museum in New York; Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 with Silverlens; WXXX (2019), West Gallery, Manila. Martinez has also held a number of solo shows in major galleries in Manila, the most recent of which is Clunker (2022) at Silverlens Manila. Early in 2022,Martinez had his first solo exhibition in Madrid entitled Underground SpiritualUnit at Galeria Yusto/ Giner. In 2018, he had a solo exhibition in Indonesia. Titled Aesthetic Police, the exhibition is an outcome of his month-long residency program at OPQRStudio in Bandung.

Lui Medina (b. 1981) is born in Manila, Philippines, who continues to interrogate form and figure using landscapes as framework. She finished her BFA in Fine Arts, Major in Painting at the University of the Philippines, and later on took up MFA in Fine Arts – Painting at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK.
From geologic to geographical forms, this interest in shapes and the organic has in turn also shaped the canvases and materials that she uses for her drawings and paintings.
Medina has had numerous exhibitions at Associazione Quasi Quadro, Turin, Italy, Finale Art Finale, Mag:net Art Gallery, and Silverlens gallery. She also has been part of group exhibitions at the Langgeng Art Foundation in Yogyakarta (2017), Mind Set Art Center in Taipei (2016), and Equator Art Projects in Singapore (2015). She was also shortlisted for her shows Lui Medina and Metamorphic Histories at the Ateneo Art Awards - Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art.
Lubin Nepomuceno (b. 1971) graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of the Philippines (UP). He has participated in both solo and group exhibitions at the Vargas Musuem at UP, TAKSU Singapore, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and Artinformal, among others.

Leeroy New (b. 1986, General Santos City, Philippines) is a Filipino artist-designer. He graduated cum laude from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. Aside from his visual arts practice, he also engages in fashion design, production design, and other commercial work. He is a recipient of the Ateneo Art Awards (2009), the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2013), and the artist residency program of La Trobe University in Bendigo, Australia (2009). New has also participated in the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (2009), and the Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival (2016). He has had solo exhibitions at Artinformal, 1335Mabini, Altromondo Gallery, Galleria Duemila, The Drawing Room, and Artesan Gallery + Studio in Singapore, among others. New is also famous for creating Lady Gaga’s costume for her music video, “Marry the Night.”

Manuel Ocampo (b. 1965) is both an artist and curator. He studied at the University of the Philippines and at California State University in Bakersfield. Manuel Ocampo has received the Rome Prize in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome (1995–1996), the National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts (1996), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1995). In 2003, as he moved back to the Philippines, he co-founded the Department of Avant-Garde Clichés Gallery in Manila. Ocampo has curated exhibitions featuring Filipino artists at the Freies Museum Berlin, and the Musee International des Arts Modestes in France. He has also shown his own work at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, the Marie Kirkegaard Gallery in Copenhagen, Tyler Rollins Fine Art in New York, USA, Finale Art File, The Drawing Room, the Crucible Gallery, and Ateneo Art Gallery, to name a few. He has also participated in international art events such as Documenta IX (1992), and the Venice Biennale (1993, 2001, 2017). Ocampo’s works can be found in various museums, and public collections around the globe, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Oakland Museum in California, the Contemporary Museum in Hawaii, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, and at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Jayson Oliveria (b. 1973) graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of the Philippines. He is a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artist Award (2006), and Ateneo Art Award (2004), and artist residencies at Big Sky Mind Artists Projects Foundation in Cubao (2003–2004) and at Tetra Art Space in Fukuoka, Japan (2005). Oliveria has shown widely in both local and international galleries, including Surrounded by Water, The Drawing Room, Finale Art File, Ark Galerie in Jakarta, the Tate Turbine Hall in London, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill in Austria, Artinformal, and Freies Museum Berlin, and VOLTA12 in Markthalle, Basel.

Bernardo Pacquing (b. 1967, Tarlac) currently lives in Parañaque City. He studied Editorial Design from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. In 1999, he won the Grand Prize from the Art Association of the Philippines for an Open Art Competition (Painting Non-Representational), and was a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Thirteen Artists Award in 2000. In the same year, he was also given the Freeman Fellowship Grant at Vermont Studio Center in Vermont. Pacquing has shown in both solo and group exhibitions at various local and international venues such as Manila Contemporary, La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore, Osage Gallery Hong Kong, TAKSU Singapore, and Silverlens Gallery.

Gary-Ross Pastrana (b. 1977, Manila) received his Bachelor’s Degree in Painting from the University of the Philippines where he was a recipient of the Dominador Castañeda Award for Best Thesis. He was granted residency programs in Japan and Bangkok. Pastrana was awarded residencies in Japan and Bangkok, and received the Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2006). He is one of the co-founders of Future Prospects Art Space (2005–2007), and has exhibited his work and curated shows both in his hometown and abroad, at galleries like Silverlens Singapore, Finale Art File, the Singapore Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of the Philippines, the Vargas Museum at the University of the Philippines, and has participated in Art Basel Hong Kong (2013), the New Museum Triennale in New York, USA (2012), the Aichi Triennale in Japan (2010) and the Busan Biennale in Korea (2008). Pastrana has also authored publications such as New Museum Triennial: The Ungovernables (USA) and Tomorrow, Today: Contemporary Art from the Singapore Art Museum 2009–2011, both published in 2012.
Lara de los Reyes (b. 1980) currently lives and works in the Philippines. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, and from Assumption College with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Entrepreneurship. De los Reyes has participated in solo and group exhibitions at various galleries including Richard Koh Fine Arts, Malaysia, Green Papaya Art Projects, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Mag:net Gallery, and Silverlens Gallery.

Norberto Roldan (b. 1953, Roxas City) is a multimedia artist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the St. Pius X Seminary, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and a Masters in Art studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Roldan is currently the artistic director of Green Papaya Art Projects, an alternative multidisciplinary platform which he co-founded in 2000.
He has represented the Philippines in various international exhibitions in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the USA. He was represented in three landmark surveys of Southeast Asian contemporary art, including New Art from Southeast Asia by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (1992), Negotiating Home History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991–2011 by the Singapore Art Museum and most recently, No Country: Contemporary Art For South / Southeast Asia by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2013). His works are included in collections worldwide, such as those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, the Singapore Art Museum, the Deutsche Bank, the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the San Miguel Corporation, the Ateneo Art Gallery, the Bencab Museum, the Carlos Oppen Cojuangco Foundation, the Artour Holdings Singapore, to name a few.

Stanley Ruiz is an industrial designer and principal of Estudio Ruiz Design Consultancy – a design studio specializing in the development of products for the furniture, lighting, and home furnishings sector.
With an extensive background in craft design and production, his work explores the commonplace to bring about new meaning and interpretation to object archetypes. Born and raised in Manila, and for several years lived in Bali and New York – Stanley’s work is an amalgam of influences held together by his singular, rational approach to product design.
His works have appeared at the Museum of Arts and Design and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. He has exhibited at the Salone Del Mobile in Milan, International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, Maison & Objet in Paris and Singapore, Ambiente in Frankfurt, Bangkok International Gift Fair, Philippine International Furniture Show, and Manila FAME.
Stanley has been featured in a number of books, magazines, and newspapers, and received several accolades including two Katha awards, Rising Asian Talent award at Maison & Objet, Outstanding Asian Talent in Bangkok, and received the Coup De Coeur award at Maison & Objet in Paris in 2008, and Surface magazine named him one of the Avant Guardians of 2010.
Recent projects include furniture design for Areté and the Ateneo Art Gallery, sculptural pieces for Conrad Hotel Manila, collaboration with glass makers in the Czech Republic, and creative direction for the Philippine delegation at NY NOW – the biggest design show in the US.
He is currently a consultant for the Design Center of the Philippines, and the creative director in-charge for DTI’s Go Lokal! He is a faculty at SoFA Design Institute, and at the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines Diliman.
Juni Salvador (b. 1962) is a Filipino artist based in Sydney, Australia. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising from the Philippine Women’s University College of Fine Arts. He taught at Maria Montessori Children’s School and at International School-Manila. He has shown in both solo and group exhibitions at various galleries including the Institute of Contemporary Art, La Salle Singapore, Manila Contemporary, SLOT space in Sydney, Mag:net Gallery, the Yuchengco Museum, Finale Art File, and West Gallery.

Sleepyheads, a proudly Pinoy indie folk-punk trio—John Jayvee del Rosario (vocals, drums, composition), Erick Encinares (bass, production, composition) and Rico Entico (guitar)—are ripping up and tearing down the barriers of mainstream music with their tongue-in-cheek lyrics, gritty low-fi sound and freakishly fun performances. While their infectious feel-good beats may induce uncontrollable fits of head bopping, toe tapping and jumping and jiving, the content of their music is certainly not lightweight. Their songs—intimate, fiercely poetic and deceptively meticulous—tackle everything from brokenhearted miseries to social alienation to warding off the disillusionment, chaos and decay that comes with modern urban life. Often serving as the opening act in Manila’s premier galleries such as Silverlens and MO_Space, the band aims construct songs that will serve as the soundtrack to the art that surrounds them. The Sleepyheads are all about subverting the status quo and breaking down the barriers of a society steeped in self-consciousness and material concerns.

Soler Santos (b. 1960) attended the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Fine Arts from 1978-82. He is a painter and photographer. Santos founded West Gallery with his wife and fellow artist, Mona Santos, in 1989.
Santos has represented the Philippines in international events such as the 1st ASEAN Youth Painting and Workshop in Thailand (1983), the 2nd Asian Art Show in Japan (1985), and the 11th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2004). He is the recipient of the First Prize from the ASEAN Painting Competition (1983) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (1992).
Santos has shown in both solo and group exhibitions at spaces including the Luz Gallery, Blanc Gallery, Silverlens Galleries, Finale Art File, MO_Space, Artinformal, the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the ICA La Salle College of the Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Maria Taniguchi (b. 1981, Dumaguete City) currently lives and works in Manila. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts in Sculpture at the University of the Philippines and her Masters in Fine Arts, Art Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was a LUX Associate Artist (2009–10), and recipient of the Ateneo Art Awards (2011, 2012), the residency program of the HIWAR | Conversations in Amman of the Khalid Shoman Foundation (2013), and the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award for Emerging Asian Artists (2015). She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in various galleries and institutions including the Vargas Museum, Silverlens Gallery, the Flauxia Milano, the M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok, Para Site Hong Kong, ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, the Ibid, London, and the 8th Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Australia, among others.

Mac Valdezco is a recipient of the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the 56th Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2006). She was shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards (2005, 2007, 2008), and was a featured artist in the Karen H. Montinola Selection (2016), where her work was shown at a special exhibition space at Art Fair Philippines. She has participated in both solo and group exhibitions at galleries including Finale Art File, the Pasig City Museum, West Gallery, Manila Contemporary, and Osage Hong Kong to name a few.

Gail Vicente (b. 1984) creates installations, drawings, objects, paintings and dioramas that explore existence, conflict, transitions and other everyday experiences. She studied Library and Information Science at the University of the Philippines before shifting to Art Education at the UP College of Fine Arts.
Since 2008, she has been exhibiting her works at various alternative art spaces and galleries in Manila. She has also worked as an art teacher and has been assisting with the research for The Chabet Archive. She currently works as an archivist for King Kong Art Projects Unlimited and as an exhibitions coordinator for Project 20.
Marija Vicente (b. 1988) is a visual artist living and working in Quezon City, Philippines. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Painting from the UP College of Fine Arts in 2011. She had an experience as an assistant of Louie Cordero in 2008, and is currently affiliated with an art and design collective, Broke, and Ganggo Painting Club.
Working primarily with oil paint, her dark yet colorful images appear to be avatars of the double mask of comedy and tragedy. She has been actively participating in group exhibitions since 2008 and has held seven solo exhibitions in Manila—at Mag:net Gallery, Finale Art File, West Gallery, Blanc Gallery, Project 20 artist-run space, and Kaida Contemporary.
In 2014, MO_Space represented her during the Art Fair Philippines for the I Object exhibition, and recently in January 2017, she became part of a three-woman show entitled Dark White Chakra which was exhibited at MO_Space until February.

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).

Reg Yuson is a sculptor and creative director of Spacespecific. He was a former member of the Committee on Visual Arts, from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (1996–2001), and the Society of Philippine Sculptors (1993–1998). He received the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artist Award in 2003.
Yuson has made commissioned pieces in public spaces, including the University of the Philippines (UP) Sculpture Garden, Greenbelt 3 in Makati City, the Mind Museum and in Bonifacio High Street, Taguig City, Resorts World Genting Club, and the Manila Hotel. He has exhibited in both solo and group shows at galleries and institutions such as the UP Vargas Museum, West Gallery, Pinto Art Gallery, Finale Art File, Mag:net Gallery, ART FORUM Gallery Singapore, Manila Contemporary, Galleria Duemila, and the Cultural Centre of the Philippines, among others.

Eric Zamuco (b. 1970, Manila) is a multimedia artist who graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Fine Arts program in 1991 and took up a masters degree of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the University of Missouri in 2009.
Zamuco's body of work has been about filtering his own displaced experience. His body of work has been about filtering the ordinary and the unfamiliar. It has persisted to be about responding to objects, materials and circumstance, in a particular time and place. His themes run the gamut from views about dislocation, identity, post-colonial narratives, spirituality, geopolitics to the need for reclamation of space. His works, which are of a diverse range of media, include sculpture, installation, photography, drawings, video and performance, serve not only as social commentary but also as self-critique. The intention in transforming the commonplace is to pull the immaterial and possibly find knowledge for some kind of human order.
He received awards such as the Ateneo Art Award and he’s one of the recipients in the Thirteen Artists Award at Cultural Center of the Philippines.
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Poklong Anading’s (b. 1975, Manila, Philippines) practice utilizes a wide range of media from drawing, painting, video, installation, photography and object-making. Taking a more process-oriented and conceptual approach, his continuing inquiry takes off from issues on self-reflexivity, both of himself and others, and site-specificity in an ongoing discussion about society, time and territory.
He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in painting from the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines (1999). He completed residencies with Big Sky Mind, Manila, Philippines (2003 to 2004), Common Room, Bandung, Indonesia (2008), Bangkok University Gallery, Thailand (2013), Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia (2013), Philippine Art Residency Program - Alliance Francaise de Manille in Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle in France (2014) and das weisse haus, Vienna Austria (2018). He had solo exhibitions in Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, Austria (2010, 2012 and 2020), Taro Nasu in Japan and Athr Gallery in Jeddah (2016), 1335MABINI in Manila, Philippines (2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019). He has been included in notable group exhibitions such as: Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2002 and 2012), No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, the first exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore (2013 to 2014), 5th Asian Art Biennial: Artist Making Movement, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2015), The Shadow Never Lies, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Afterwork, Para Site, Hong Kong, China and in the Architecture Biennale for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Philippine Pavilion: Muhon: Traces of an Adolescent City at Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy (2016), disco nap, ‘We Didn’t Mean To Break It (But It’s Ok, We Can Fix It), Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal (2019), Far Away But Strangely Familiar’, Danubiana Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia (2019), Normal scheduling will resume shortly, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila (2019) and Arts in Common Artjog MMXIX, Jogya Nationa Museum, Jogyakarta, Indonesia (2019),
Anading lives and works in Manila.

Maria Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan (b. 1965, Manila) and Alfredo Juan Aquilizan (b. 1962, Cagayan Valley, the Philippines) have lived and worked in Brisbane Australia since 2006. The artists have worked collaboratively for over a decade and their projects use the processes of collecting and collaborating to express ideas of migration, family, home, and memory. Often working with local communities, the Aquilizans bring together personal items and found objects to compose elaborate, formal installations reflecting individual experiences of dislocation and change. They have also used the materials of migration such as packing boxes, referencing the Philippine tradition of the Balikbayan. They have been selected for large exhibitions internationally, including the Havana Biennale (1997, 2000), the Asia-Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (1999 & 2009), 50th Venice Biennale (Zones of Urgency, 2003), Biennale of Sydney (2006); the Echigo-Tsumari Triennale in Japan (2006), Singapore Biennale (2008), Adelaide Biennial (2008); the Liverpool Biennal in the UK (2010), the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and the Sharjah Biennale in the United Arab Emirates (2013), among others. They have also exhibited in numerous international institutions, such as the Singapore Art Museum, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) in Sydney, Australia, Asian Arts Museum in Fukuoka, Japan, the 21st Century Museum in Kanazawa, Japan, and more.

Felix Bacolor (b. 1967) finished his BFA in Painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. His works have been shown at different international galleries through solo and group exhibitions including, the Valentine Willie Fine Art Project Room, the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, La Salle College of the Arts, Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong, Finale Art File, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Galleria Duemila, and Artinformal.

Ringo Bunoan (b. 1974) is an artist, writer, researcher, and curator whose work explores material and conceptual histories and issues of visibility and representation. Through common and found objects, installations, site-specific projects, photographs, and videos, she examines and reflects on the transient conditions of contemporary art and everyday life.
Bunoan received her BFA in Art History from the University of the Philippines in 1997 and has exhibited widely in Manila, Asia and the United States. Her works have been featured in several international exhibitions and biennales, including the recent Time of Others at the Singapore Art Museum and Queensland Art Gallery and Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia at the Mori Art Museum. She is the recipient of the Thirteen Artist award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2003.
She taught at the UP College in Arts and worked as the Researcher for the Philippines for Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. She is the co-founder of Big Sky Mind (1999–2005), King Kong Art Projects Unlimited (2010–present), and artbooks.ph (2014–present). She was the lead curator of Chabet: 50 Years, a series of exhibitions in Manila, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and the inaugural Manila Biennale: Open City in 2018.

Bea Camacho (b. 1983, Manila, Philippines) is a visual artist who works in installation, performance, and video. She received her B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University, where she was awarded the Albert Alcalay Prize for Outstanding work in Studio Art and the David McCord Prize for Achievement in the Arts.
She is a recipient of the Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She was also selected as an exhibiting artist for the 2006 Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York City and for the 2009 International Women Artists Biennale in Incheon, Korea. Recently, her exhibition at MO_Space, Memento Obliviscere, was shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2018.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries internationally, including the Japan Society (New York), Osage Gallery (Hong Kong and Singapore), Ikkan Art Gallery (Singapore), Valentine Willie Fine Arts (Kuala Lumpur and Manila), Silverlens (Manila), Finale Gallery (Manila), MO_Space (Manila), and Green Papaya Art Projects (Manila). She has also shown her work in institutions including the Cultural Center of the Philippines, National Museum of the Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila, the Musee d'Art Moderne in St. Etienne, Kyoto Art Center, Hangaram Museum, EuGon Museum of Photography, Triennale di Milano Design Museum, Queens Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Tate Modern.

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.

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.

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).

Lena Cobangbang (b. 1976, Philippines) studied Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman QC. Her work is broad-ranging, moving across video, installation, and found objects to embroidery, cookery, performance and photography. Integral to her art practice is doing collaborations with other artists, such as with Yasmin Sison under the created fictional identity as Alice and Lucinda; and with Mike Crisostomo as The Weather Bureau.
Apart from making art, she writes and works as an independent curator. A part of the seminal artist collective Surrounded By Water, her art practice extends to doing art administration and exhibit organizing, having been a fellow at the 2008 HAO Summit for emerging artists, curator and art managers in Asia in Singapore in 2008, and having undergone an artist/curator research residency exchange between Green Papaya Art Projects and Pekarna-Magdalenske Mreže in Maribor, Slovenia in 2010. She was also part of the touring exhibit, Bastards of Misrepresentation, curated by Manuel Ocampo which has been held in Berlin, Hamburg, Bangkok and New York and the Manila Vice show in Sète, France.
In 2005, she was nominated for the 3rd Ateneo Art Awards. She received the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award in 2006, and was one of the participating artists in the 2008 Singapore Biennale. She did curatorial projects for galleries Pablo, Post Gallery, Galerie Anna, Galerie Roberto, Art Anton, and Secret Fresh in Manila, Philippines. She was part of a residency program hosted by Langgeng Art Foundation in Jogjakarta in 2016.

Painter and sculptor Louie Cordero began an active exhibiting career while pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines. After graduating in 2001, he became a core member of the painting collective Surrounded by Water and artist-in-residence with the artist-run initiative Big Sky Mind. His work explored imagery and narratives at the nexus of Philippine Catholicism, politics, mass culture, mining the collective consciousness of the Pinoy everyman with a humorous edge. He won the Grand Prize (Painting), 8th Annual Freeman Foundation Vermont Studio Centre in 2002-3. In 2005, he co-founded Future Prospects alternative art space. He is the creator of Nardong Tae, the underground comics of cult status in the Philippines.
Fascinated with kitschy outsider aesthetics and colonial-era leftovers, acrylic has become Cordero's medium of choice in painting since 2005 as he turned towards the super-flat aesthetics of spray-painted Philippine jeepneys and other waning commercial art forms. He received the Cultural Centre of the Philippines 13 Artists Awards in 2006 and earlier. Solo exhibitions overseas include DELUBYO (Giant Robot, Los Angeles, 2008), Actuality/Virtuality (3 Sogoku Warehouse, Fukuoka, 2003), Soft Death (Osage, Hong Kong and Singapore, 2009) and Sacred Bones (Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, 2010). The recent years display an intensity in the bricolage-method of image construction that takes us through a thrill ride through unbridled imaginations and rerouted libidos, coupled with awkward rendering and visionary courage. His work has been included in World of Painting, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australia, 2008; Coffee, Cigarettes and Pad Thai, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, 2008; Singapore Biennale 2011; the 14th Jakarta Biennale, 2011; and PANORAMA, Singapore Art Museum, 2012.
Cordero’s puzzling, imploring, and visually striking juxtapositions are often punctuated by blood and gore, as if to imply the history of violence and bloodshed that his nation and people have sustained. Cordero’s artwork makes references to his native Philippines, a nation rich with diversity—the result of multiple changes in political regime and subjugation throughout its history. With a complex mixture of eastern and western influences, the cultural fabric of The Republic of The Philippines is a unique combination of ethnic heritage and traditions, composed of indigenous folklore, Asian customs and Spanish legacy reflective in the names and religion.
Figures from Filipino mythology and its strong oral tradition are referenced through the artist’s gruesome monsters and zombies, while another source of inspiration derived from his nationality involves the Jeepney (U.S. military vehicles abandoned after WWII, and converted by locals to use as public transportation). Each Jeepney, unique and elaborately decorated in vibrant colors, features an ornate mash-up of pop and religious iconography. By combining these elements, varied and obscure (to Westerners), with imagery appropriated from Cordero’s assorted interests including kitsch, Indian advertising, cult American b-movies, and pulp horror, the contrasting influences reflect the complex diversity of the artist’s heritage itself.

Sabana “Aba” Lluch Dalena (b. 1972) is a multi-faceted Filipino artist – a visual artist, art teacher, musician, and art organizer. Dalena demonstrates her ease with wielding and spanning seemingly contradictory elements: sculpture and painting, figuration and abstraction, solitary works and collaborative pieces.
The artist obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of the Philippines - Diliman campus. She also took a special course on Drawing at the Art Students League of New York, U.S.A.
Dalena’s latest solo art exhibition entitled Fragile was held in May 2017 at the West Gallery which reflects on the human condition.

Kiri Lluch Dalena (b. 1975) is a Filipino filmmaker and visual artist. Dalena graduated from the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños with a Bachelors in Human Ecology. She then pursued further studies in 16mm documentary film making at the Mowelfund Film Institute. She is a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2012) and the Ateneo Art Awards (2009). Dalena’s films have been screened in various international film festivals such as the Tromsø International Film Festival (2015), Visions du Reel (2014), Naqsh Short Film Festival (2014), and in the Sharjah Biennale 11 Film Program (2013). She has represented the Philippines in different international art events such as the Singapore Biennale (2013), the Yokohama Triennale (2014), the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (2014), the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia (2015), and Busan Biennale (2016). Dalena’s works are currently in the permanent collections of the Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, and the Ateneo Art Gallery. She has various solo and group exhibitions in local and international galleries, such as Mag:net, Vargas Museum at UP, Finale Art File, 1335Mabini, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill in Graz, Austria, Ateneo Art Gallery, Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Now Gallery, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila Contemporary, the Lopez Memorial Museum, and the Singapore Art Museum.

Patricia Perez Eustaquio (b. 1977) is based in Manila who works with shadows, fragments, discards, and detritus, taking on such marginalized themes in a language that is at once evocative and familiar. She works in a variety of media, exploring materials through painting, drawing, and installation. She fashions sculpture from fabric, shrouding objects with crochet or silk treated with resin and then removes the object allowing the fabric to retain the folds and drapes. The resulting ghost (-piano, -chair, -birdcage) examines ideas of memory and perception.
Her similar approach to painting translates the rigid pictorial square to a fragmented object, where its bounding frame is removed or cut away, resulting into ornately shaped canvases haunted by imagery of discards and detritus, wilted blooms and carcasses.
Eustaquio’s work recalls the domestic as well as perhaps the psychic lives of objects by the repeated rehashing of memory where the familiar or the banal takes on a new substance, where the material and the immaterial coexist. She has been the recipient of awards for emerging artists, and of artists’ residency grants such as Art Omi in New York. She has had solo shows in Manila, Taiwan, Singapore, and New York, and has been part of several, notable group exhibitions including shows at the Hong Kong Art Centre (HKAC) and the Singapore Art Museum. Her work recently featured in The Vexed Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art & Design in Manila.
In 2016, she was commissioned to work on a site-specific installation at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The exhibit ran from 23 June to 22 September.

Nona Garcia (b. 1978) received a BFA in Painting at the University of the Philippines (UP). Her work has been shown and collected extensively throughout the region. She was the recipient of the Grand Prize for the Philip Morris Group of Companies ASEAN Art Award (2000), the Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artists Award (2003), and the residency program at Cross Currents, Bangkok (2004). Her work has been featured in numerous publications such as Post-Tsunami Art published by Damiani, Without Walls: A tour of Philippine Paintings at the Turn of the Millenium, and Phaidon’s Painting Today.
Garcia has shown at Finale Art File, West Gallery, the Prague Biennale (2009), G23 in Bangkok, the Primo Marella Milano, Valentine Willie Fine Art Singapore, Osage Gallery Singapore, the Bencab Museum in Baguio City, ARNDT Berlin, and Blanc Gallery, to name a few.

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.

Eugene Jarque is a Cavite-based artist. He graduated from the Technological University of the Philippines and is a faculty member of its Fine Arts Department. He was recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Awards (2006), and twice recognised in the Top 50 artists of the Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards (2002, 2005). He was among the Philippine artists involved in the third leg of the Wahana series, The Wahana Project (2005) held at the Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines. He has shown in solo and group exhibitions at various galleries including Blanc Gallery, Avellana Art Gallery, West Gallery, Mag:net Gallery, Finale Art File, and Republikha Art Gallery.

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.

Lani Maestro (b. 1957) is a Filipino artist based in Manila, Canada and France. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines, and then pursued art studies at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada. She received her Masters of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax where she taught. Maestro was also an instructor at Concordia University in Montreal. She was co-founder and designer of HARBOUR Magazine of Art and Everyday Life from 1990–1994. Maestro is an artist laureate of the prestigious NSCAD University’s honorary doctorate in Fine Arts (honoris causa) in Halifax, Canada, 2018. She is also a recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards for outstanding achievement (2012), and the Canada Council residency at THE SPACE, London (2008). She participated in the Beppu Project (2013), the Sharjah Biennal (2009), Busan Biennale (2004), the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane (1999), and the 11th International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1998), and the Segunda Bienal dela Habana in Cuba, where she received the Bienal Prize (1986). She has also had solo exhibitions at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), MCAD Manila, the Vargas Musuem at UP, and two commissioned site-specific works in Lorraine and l’Ardeche in France (2013). In 2017, she was one of the Philippine representatives at the 45th Venice Biennale with Manuel Ocampo. In the same year, she had a solo exhibit at MO_Space entitled “her rain”(slaughter) wherein she also showed her video art last 2011 from her show at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg and Centre A in Vancouver.

Pow Martinez (b. 1983, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in Manila) is a Filipino artist known for his expressionistic style of painting, blending bold colors with demonic, mutant-like characters to create compelling canvases. Often resembling a beautiful nightmare, Martinez combines the mundanities of everyday life with elements of pop culture, resulting in darkly humorous works depicting society’s overconsumption.
Martinez is a recipient of the 2010 Ateneo Art Award for his exhibition 1 Billion Years at West Gallery, Philippines. He exhibits internationally and has worked with different media, from painting to sound.
His recent exhibitions include State of Flux (2023) at Silverlens New York; City Prince/sses (2019) at Palais de Tokyo in Paris; Art Jakarta 2019 with Silverlens and ROH Projects; 50 Years in Hollywood (2019) at Pinto Art Museum in New York; Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 with Silverlens; WXXX (2019), West Gallery, Manila. Martinez has also held a number of solo shows in major galleries in Manila, the most recent of which is Clunker (2022) at Silverlens Manila. Early in 2022,Martinez had his first solo exhibition in Madrid entitled Underground SpiritualUnit at Galeria Yusto/ Giner. In 2018, he had a solo exhibition in Indonesia. Titled Aesthetic Police, the exhibition is an outcome of his month-long residency program at OPQRStudio in Bandung.

Lui Medina (b. 1981) is born in Manila, Philippines, who continues to interrogate form and figure using landscapes as framework. She finished her BFA in Fine Arts, Major in Painting at the University of the Philippines, and later on took up MFA in Fine Arts – Painting at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK.
From geologic to geographical forms, this interest in shapes and the organic has in turn also shaped the canvases and materials that she uses for her drawings and paintings.
Medina has had numerous exhibitions at Associazione Quasi Quadro, Turin, Italy, Finale Art Finale, Mag:net Art Gallery, and Silverlens gallery. She also has been part of group exhibitions at the Langgeng Art Foundation in Yogyakarta (2017), Mind Set Art Center in Taipei (2016), and Equator Art Projects in Singapore (2015). She was also shortlisted for her shows Lui Medina and Metamorphic Histories at the Ateneo Art Awards - Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art.

Lubin Nepomuceno (b. 1971) graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of the Philippines (UP). He has participated in both solo and group exhibitions at the Vargas Musuem at UP, TAKSU Singapore, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and Artinformal, among others.
Leeroy New (b. 1986, General Santos City, Philippines) is a Filipino artist-designer. He graduated cum laude from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. Aside from his visual arts practice, he also engages in fashion design, production design, and other commercial work. He is a recipient of the Ateneo Art Awards (2009), the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2013), and the artist residency program of La Trobe University in Bendigo, Australia (2009). New has also participated in the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (2009), and the Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival (2016). He has had solo exhibitions at Artinformal, 1335Mabini, Altromondo Gallery, Galleria Duemila, The Drawing Room, and Artesan Gallery + Studio in Singapore, among others. New is also famous for creating Lady Gaga’s costume for her music video, “Marry the Night.”

Manuel Ocampo (b. 1965) is both an artist and curator. He studied at the University of the Philippines and at California State University in Bakersfield. Manuel Ocampo has received the Rome Prize in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome (1995–1996), the National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts (1996), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1995). In 2003, as he moved back to the Philippines, he co-founded the Department of Avant-Garde Clichés Gallery in Manila. Ocampo has curated exhibitions featuring Filipino artists at the Freies Museum Berlin, and the Musee International des Arts Modestes in France. He has also shown his own work at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, the Marie Kirkegaard Gallery in Copenhagen, Tyler Rollins Fine Art in New York, USA, Finale Art File, The Drawing Room, the Crucible Gallery, and Ateneo Art Gallery, to name a few. He has also participated in international art events such as Documenta IX (1992), and the Venice Biennale (1993, 2001, 2017). Ocampo’s works can be found in various museums, and public collections around the globe, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Oakland Museum in California, the Contemporary Museum in Hawaii, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, and at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Jayson Oliveria (b. 1973) graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of the Philippines. He is a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artist Award (2006), and Ateneo Art Award (2004), and artist residencies at Big Sky Mind Artists Projects Foundation in Cubao (2003–2004) and at Tetra Art Space in Fukuoka, Japan (2005). Oliveria has shown widely in both local and international galleries, including Surrounded by Water, The Drawing Room, Finale Art File, Ark Galerie in Jakarta, the Tate Turbine Hall in London, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill in Austria, Artinformal, and Freies Museum Berlin, and VOLTA12 in Markthalle, Basel.

Bernardo Pacquing (b. 1967, Tarlac) currently lives in Parañaque City. He studied Editorial Design from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. In 1999, he won the Grand Prize from the Art Association of the Philippines for an Open Art Competition (Painting Non-Representational), and was a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Thirteen Artists Award in 2000. In the same year, he was also given the Freeman Fellowship Grant at Vermont Studio Center in Vermont. Pacquing has shown in both solo and group exhibitions at various local and international venues such as Manila Contemporary, La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore, Osage Gallery Hong Kong, TAKSU Singapore, and Silverlens Gallery.

Gary-Ross Pastrana (b. 1977, Manila) received his Bachelor’s Degree in Painting from the University of the Philippines where he was a recipient of the Dominador Castañeda Award for Best Thesis. He was granted residency programs in Japan and Bangkok. Pastrana was awarded residencies in Japan and Bangkok, and received the Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2006). He is one of the co-founders of Future Prospects Art Space (2005–2007), and has exhibited his work and curated shows both in his hometown and abroad, at galleries like Silverlens Singapore, Finale Art File, the Singapore Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of the Philippines, the Vargas Museum at the University of the Philippines, and has participated in Art Basel Hong Kong (2013), the New Museum Triennale in New York, USA (2012), the Aichi Triennale in Japan (2010) and the Busan Biennale in Korea (2008). Pastrana has also authored publications such as New Museum Triennial: The Ungovernables (USA) and Tomorrow, Today: Contemporary Art from the Singapore Art Museum 2009–2011, both published in 2012.

Lara de los Reyes (b. 1980) currently lives and works in the Philippines. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, and from Assumption College with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Entrepreneurship. De los Reyes has participated in solo and group exhibitions at various galleries including Richard Koh Fine Arts, Malaysia, Green Papaya Art Projects, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Mag:net Gallery, and Silverlens Gallery.
Norberto Roldan (b. 1953, Roxas City) is a multimedia artist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the St. Pius X Seminary, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and a Masters in Art studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Roldan is currently the artistic director of Green Papaya Art Projects, an alternative multidisciplinary platform which he co-founded in 2000.
He has represented the Philippines in various international exhibitions in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the USA. He was represented in three landmark surveys of Southeast Asian contemporary art, including New Art from Southeast Asia by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (1992), Negotiating Home History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991–2011 by the Singapore Art Museum and most recently, No Country: Contemporary Art For South / Southeast Asia by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2013). His works are included in collections worldwide, such as those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, the Singapore Art Museum, the Deutsche Bank, the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the San Miguel Corporation, the Ateneo Art Gallery, the Bencab Museum, the Carlos Oppen Cojuangco Foundation, the Artour Holdings Singapore, to name a few.

Stanley Ruiz is an industrial designer and principal of Estudio Ruiz Design Consultancy – a design studio specializing in the development of products for the furniture, lighting, and home furnishings sector.
With an extensive background in craft design and production, his work explores the commonplace to bring about new meaning and interpretation to object archetypes. Born and raised in Manila, and for several years lived in Bali and New York – Stanley’s work is an amalgam of influences held together by his singular, rational approach to product design.
His works have appeared at the Museum of Arts and Design and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. He has exhibited at the Salone Del Mobile in Milan, International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, Maison & Objet in Paris and Singapore, Ambiente in Frankfurt, Bangkok International Gift Fair, Philippine International Furniture Show, and Manila FAME.
Stanley has been featured in a number of books, magazines, and newspapers, and received several accolades including two Katha awards, Rising Asian Talent award at Maison & Objet, Outstanding Asian Talent in Bangkok, and received the Coup De Coeur award at Maison & Objet in Paris in 2008, and Surface magazine named him one of the Avant Guardians of 2010.
Recent projects include furniture design for Areté and the Ateneo Art Gallery, sculptural pieces for Conrad Hotel Manila, collaboration with glass makers in the Czech Republic, and creative direction for the Philippine delegation at NY NOW – the biggest design show in the US.
He is currently a consultant for the Design Center of the Philippines, and the creative director in-charge for DTI’s Go Lokal! He is a faculty at SoFA Design Institute, and at the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines Diliman.

Juni Salvador (b. 1962) is a Filipino artist based in Sydney, Australia. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising from the Philippine Women’s University College of Fine Arts. He taught at Maria Montessori Children’s School and at International School-Manila. He has shown in both solo and group exhibitions at various galleries including the Institute of Contemporary Art, La Salle Singapore, Manila Contemporary, SLOT space in Sydney, Mag:net Gallery, the Yuchengco Museum, Finale Art File, and West Gallery.
Sleepyheads, a proudly Pinoy indie folk-punk trio—John Jayvee del Rosario (vocals, drums, composition), Erick Encinares (bass, production, composition) and Rico Entico (guitar)—are ripping up and tearing down the barriers of mainstream music with their tongue-in-cheek lyrics, gritty low-fi sound and freakishly fun performances. While their infectious feel-good beats may induce uncontrollable fits of head bopping, toe tapping and jumping and jiving, the content of their music is certainly not lightweight. Their songs—intimate, fiercely poetic and deceptively meticulous—tackle everything from brokenhearted miseries to social alienation to warding off the disillusionment, chaos and decay that comes with modern urban life. Often serving as the opening act in Manila’s premier galleries such as Silverlens and MO_Space, the band aims construct songs that will serve as the soundtrack to the art that surrounds them. The Sleepyheads are all about subverting the status quo and breaking down the barriers of a society steeped in self-consciousness and material concerns.

Soler Santos (b. 1960) attended the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Fine Arts from 1978-82. He is a painter and photographer. Santos founded West Gallery with his wife and fellow artist, Mona Santos, in 1989.
Santos has represented the Philippines in international events such as the 1st ASEAN Youth Painting and Workshop in Thailand (1983), the 2nd Asian Art Show in Japan (1985), and the 11th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2004). He is the recipient of the First Prize from the ASEAN Painting Competition (1983) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (1992).
Santos has shown in both solo and group exhibitions at spaces including the Luz Gallery, Blanc Gallery, Silverlens Galleries, Finale Art File, MO_Space, Artinformal, the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the ICA La Salle College of the Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Maria Taniguchi (b. 1981, Dumaguete City) currently lives and works in Manila. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts in Sculpture at the University of the Philippines and her Masters in Fine Arts, Art Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was a LUX Associate Artist (2009–10), and recipient of the Ateneo Art Awards (2011, 2012), the residency program of the HIWAR | Conversations in Amman of the Khalid Shoman Foundation (2013), and the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award for Emerging Asian Artists (2015). She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in various galleries and institutions including the Vargas Museum, Silverlens Gallery, the Flauxia Milano, the M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok, Para Site Hong Kong, ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, the Ibid, London, and the 8th Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Australia, among others.

Mac Valdezco is a recipient of the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the 56th Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2006). She was shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards (2005, 2007, 2008), and was a featured artist in the Karen H. Montinola Selection (2016), where her work was shown at a special exhibition space at Art Fair Philippines. She has participated in both solo and group exhibitions at galleries including Finale Art File, the Pasig City Museum, West Gallery, Manila Contemporary, and Osage Hong Kong to name a few.

Gail Vicente (b. 1984) creates installations, drawings, objects, paintings and dioramas that explore existence, conflict, transitions and other everyday experiences. She studied Library and Information Science at the University of the Philippines before shifting to Art Education at the UP College of Fine Arts.
Since 2008, she has been exhibiting her works at various alternative art spaces and galleries in Manila. She has also worked as an art teacher and has been assisting with the research for The Chabet Archive. She currently works as an archivist for King Kong Art Projects Unlimited and as an exhibitions coordinator for Project 20.

Marija Vicente (b. 1988) is a visual artist living and working in Quezon City, Philippines. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Painting from the UP College of Fine Arts in 2011. She had an experience as an assistant of Louie Cordero in 2008, and is currently affiliated with an art and design collective, Broke, and Ganggo Painting Club.
Working primarily with oil paint, her dark yet colorful images appear to be avatars of the double mask of comedy and tragedy. She has been actively participating in group exhibitions since 2008 and has held seven solo exhibitions in Manila—at Mag:net Gallery, Finale Art File, West Gallery, Blanc Gallery, Project 20 artist-run space, and Kaida Contemporary.
In 2014, MO_Space represented her during the Art Fair Philippines for the I Object exhibition, and recently in January 2017, she became part of a three-woman show entitled Dark White Chakra which was exhibited at MO_Space until February.
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).

Reg Yuson is a sculptor and creative director of Spacespecific. He was a former member of the Committee on Visual Arts, from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (1996–2001), and the Society of Philippine Sculptors (1993–1998). He received the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artist Award in 2003.
Yuson has made commissioned pieces in public spaces, including the University of the Philippines (UP) Sculpture Garden, Greenbelt 3 in Makati City, the Mind Museum and in Bonifacio High Street, Taguig City, Resorts World Genting Club, and the Manila Hotel. He has exhibited in both solo and group shows at galleries and institutions such as the UP Vargas Museum, West Gallery, Pinto Art Gallery, Finale Art File, Mag:net Gallery, ART FORUM Gallery Singapore, Manila Contemporary, Galleria Duemila, and the Cultural Centre of the Philippines, among others.

Eric Zamuco (b. 1970, Manila) is a multimedia artist who graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Fine Arts program in 1991 and took up a masters degree of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the University of Missouri in 2009.
Zamuco's body of work has been about filtering his own displaced experience. His body of work has been about filtering the ordinary and the unfamiliar. It has persisted to be about responding to objects, materials and circumstance, in a particular time and place. His themes run the gamut from views about dislocation, identity, post-colonial narratives, spirituality, geopolitics to the need for reclamation of space. His works, which are of a diverse range of media, include sculpture, installation, photography, drawings, video and performance, serve not only as social commentary but also as self-critique. The intention in transforming the commonplace is to pull the immaterial and possibly find knowledge for some kind of human order.
He received awards such as the Ateneo Art Award and he’s one of the recipients in the Thirteen Artists Award at Cultural Center of the Philippines.
