Irene Bawer-Bimuyag (b. 1976) creates handwoven textiles that celebrate life. A designer, embroiderer, and weaver based in both Baguio City and Lubuagan, Kalinga, her geometric and organic patterns, use of color, and intricate embroidery respond to traditional and contemporary making. She belongs to a long line of weavers in the Kalinga ancestral village of Mabilong, where backstrap looms are found in most homes. Handwoven textiles are sacred in ritual but have also evolved into a livelihood industry. Her work involves being part of an ecology of traditional motifs and symbols. But she also creates to expand this frame of reference.

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. His paintings are often drawn from locations and resources referencing images from museums and institutional archives on subjects that discuss migrations, wars, territorial conflicts, and colonization.

Ronyel Compra (b. 1985) is a visual artist who experiments with indigenous materials such as non- commercial charcoal, twigs, pebbles, corn cobs, cow bones, and skulls to materialize his works in different formats: painting, video, sculptural installations, performances, and printmaking. Heavily influenced by the discovery of historical and personal accounts in communities, Compra integrates the techniques used in local crafts production and trades into his practice in assessing memory and history, particularly narratives from his hometown of Bogo in the northern part of Cebu. He received his BFA in Painting from the University of the Philippines, Cebu, and was a finalist for the Ateneo Art Awards in 2019. In 2020, he completed an artist residency program at the Bellas Artes Projects in Bataan. Compra is a recipient of the NoExit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour— Philippines through Para Site Hong Kong. He was recently selected for the 2025 Gasworks International Residency Programme in London.

Pepe Delfin (b. 1991) explores abstract forms through geometric shapes and lines. The careful placement of these elements produces visual narratives of Delfin’s experiences, observations, and relationships with people and contemporary life. Her paintings, illustrations, and video installations include scenarios that depict solitude and the multitude of expressions through bright colors and structures as a form of expression, unbounded by traditional forms of image-making.

Kelli Maeshiro’s (b.1989) works are characterized as delicate and introspective, creating an inviting atmosphere that portrays themes of longing and ennui. She merges traditional and contemporary art-making techniques in forming images that examine how identity is constructed through migration and memory drawn from her experience as a Japan-born adoptee of an Okinawan-American family. Maeshiro received her BA in Studio Art (Painting) from the Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and completed artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (USA) and the Women’s Studio Workshop (USA). In 2018, she received the George and Nobuko Azumano Award. Her works were featured in exhibitions at the National Museum of the Philippines, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, and the Honolulu Museum of Art. She lives and works in the cities of Manila and Honolulu. Her works were featured in “a world, anew” curated by Joyce Toh for the 5th edition of S.E.A. Focus in Singapore.

Veronica Lazo’s ( practice is founded on her background as an industrial designer. Her works are commentaries that respond to the contexts of design and its links with excess, luxury, surplus labor, and capitalism. From the intimacy of homeware to the monumentality of the state, Lazo re-appropriates forms and images to highlight the contradictions of present-day situations. Her design practice aims for the relatability and closeness of objects with shared human experiences. Lazo received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, where she teaches as part of its undergraduate faculty. She was recently named one of the finalists at the Ateneo Art Awards – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art for her first solo exhibition, “William F***ing Morris,” at MONO8. Her works were featured in the 2023 edition of S.E.A. Focus, curated by Joyce Toh in Singapore.