Renz Baluyot (b. 1989) explores socio-political narratives centered on urban decay. His works illustrate the disintegration of the environment and society as effects of imposed oppressive political and economic power. In portraying these issues, Baluyot examines the people's reception to these subtle but punitive atrocities as we become observers of our realities. Baluyot's paintings are often drawn from locations and resources that reference images from museums and institutional archives on subjects that discuss migrations, wars, territorial conflicts, and colonization.

Baluyot received his BFA from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, and was an artist-in-residence at the Bellas Artes Projects (Bataan, Philippines). In 2019, he was selected for a fellowship grant at the Vermont Studio Centre (USA). His work was part of the exhibition Living Earth: Contemporary Philippine Art, curated by Luca Beatrice and Patrick Flores in Milan, Italy. Baluyot received the Juror's Choice Award of Merit in the 25th Philippine Art Awards (2020) and was one of the finalists in the Ateneo Art Awards – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art (2021) for his exhibition, Empire at West Gallery. He lives and works in Manila, Philippines.