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Imelda Cajipe-Endaya’s art has gained recognition in the Asia-Pacific contemporary art world for the distinct feminist visual language in her paintings, prints, and installation art. She co-founded the feminist artists’ organization Kababaihan sa Sining at Bagong Sibol na Kamalayan (KASIBULAN). 

Her works are in the collection of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Philippine National Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Singapore, the Metropolitan Museum Manila, the Okinawa Prefectural Museum, and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.

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Charlie Co’s art—socially alert, politically astute, and globally concerned—coincides with the language of our times. His multidisciplinary work, with the use of a vibrant palette and sketch-like style, consists of deeply personal and allegorical symbols. He has produced more than 40 solo exhibitions since 1983, presented internationally in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and The Philippines. 

Co’s works are in the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery Australia, Metropolitan Museum and Lopez Museum Manila, the BenCab Museum Baguio, and private collections globally. 

Louie Cordero is currently based in Cuenca, Batangas. Themes of the grotesque, the unclassifiable and the brutal are prevalent in his works. Some recurring motifs include anatomical innards, muscle tissue, veins and eyeballs—juxtaposed with religious imagery and other facets of Filipino culture. 

Cordero graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and was an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (2003) in the United States. His work has been exhibited at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon in France, the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Australia,  the Singapore Biennale (2011), the 14th Jakarta Biennale (2011), and the Singapore Art Museum.

Marina Cruz graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. She won grand prizes in the Philippine Art Awards and the Ateneo Art Awards in 2007.

She uses her diverse collection of antique, nominal, and semantic material to bring to attention some characteristics of painterly representation. Her work deals with stories of survival and relies on the recollection of events in her family history.

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Mark Justiniani was born in Victorias, Negros Occidental to a family of artists and engineers. He is known for his figurative paintings; some of his works include the assemblage of a jeepney using stainless steel, stickers and decals. He was involved in several artist collectives such as Grupong Salingpusa (1985-1992) and Artista ng Bayan or ABAY (1987-1990).

His present artwork focuses on exploring the visible spectrum and questioning the idea of realism, which marked a significant transformation in his artistic practice. 

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Maria Jeona Zoleta works with myriad mediums, from paintings, drawings, textiles, videos, and sculptures to installations. She dwells on topics that intrigue and even challenge her, such as roboticist Masahiro Mori’s concept of the “Uncanny Valley”.

Growing up in the red light district of Makati, Metro Manila informed her of visual language. She finds her comfort with the weird and the eerie, having been greatly influenced by the context of her broad experiences: Philippine history, the Y2K Millennium bug, and the Internet generation that raised her. 

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