Kim Oliveros
Neil de la Cruz
Rocelie Delfin
Kim Oliveros
Neil de la Cruz
Rocelie Delfin
Our Artists
Annie Cabigting
Annie Cabigting (born in 1971) majored in Painting at the University of the Philippines. She has been publicly exhibiting her works since 2001. Her first solo exhibition, “100 pieces” (2005), was shown in Finale Art File’s space in SM Megamall, Mandaluyong. She is a recipient of the Ateneo Art Awards and her work was included in the Prague Biennale in Czechoslovakia. Her works have been exhibited in galleries and art fairs in Metro Manila, Antipolo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Tokyo, Berlin, Basel, Madrid, Beirut, and Milan.
Her work, which ranges from painting to installation, is known for questioning what constitutes art: the various aspects of producing, looking and privileging visual images throughout history. Her subject matter involves people viewing art. They highlight the importance of the viewer to an artwork, for they determine whether the object is an artwork. She paints these paintings in a photorealist style.
​Bembol Dela Cruz
Bembol Dela Cruz (born in 1976) studied Bachelor in Fine Arts, Major in Painting in the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His first solo exhibition, “The History of Things”, was shown in 2006. In 2011, he won one of the top three slots at the 8th Ateneo Art Awards. He also received an artist residency and exhibition grant at the Liverpool Hope University and Cornerstone Gallery in the United Kingdom. The following year he also received two residency grants from Berkshire Residency in Ghent, New York,
He had exhibitions in galleries like Finale Art File, West Gallery, Vinyl on Vinyl, Blanc, and MO Space. He also has had exhibitions abroad like Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, California, New York, and Kuala Lumpur. His paintings are photorealist style. They involve objects that seem ordinary but carry a rich backstory. His works may involve a mask, a dead bird, a skull, or a gun, but it is about the universality of death. When one looks at his works, it gives a strong emotion like fear.
Lyra Garcellano
Lyra Garcellano’s research centers on the exploration of art ecosystems and historical narratives, and her output is often presented as paintings, installations, moving images, comics and writing. She is particularly interested in how prevailing models in the artworld impact artistic practice.
Lyra graduated with a BA in interdisciplinary studies from the Ateneo de Manila University. She holds two other degrees from the University of the Philippines: a BFA in studio arts from the College of Fine Arts, and an MA in art theory and criticism from the Department of Art Studies, College of Arts and Letters.
She is a recipient of the 13 Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and she has received grants from the Asian Cultural Council, Unesco-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, MMCA Korea (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), and Mekong Cultural Hub.
She is the creator of the comic strips Atomo & Weboy and MIKI BLUE, and a co-founder of TRAFFIC –– an anthology of texts in the field of cultural and arts.
In 2024, her first book of essays, Elsewhere: Writings on Art, was published by Grana Books and officially launched at Parola, UP Fine Arts Gallery. Her boardgame Stakeholding: Chapter One –– a developing, contemplative and discursive tabletop game designed to understand the intersecting art and cultural systems –– was also produced as a prototype under the grant she received in the first Benilde Open.
Kim Oliveros
Kim Oliveros (born in 1990) studied Major in Visual Arts at the Regional Pilot School for the Arts, and Painting and Visual Communication from the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. He started participating in group exhibitions in 2009 and held his first one-man show at Sining Kamalig in Cubao in 2011. In 2013, he had his first exhibition with Finale Art File, entitled “Exquisite Enigma”. He has exhibited in galleries in Metro Manila, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei.
His works currently integrate a wide range of media, ranging from painting to photography - based processes, from sculpture to installation. Kim’s paintings are influenced by memories of his youth. Growing up, he was surrounded by different patterns of garments. From such memories he developed a concept present in his current works. He has gained recognition for his paintings of women, kimonos, origamis, and flowers. But what makes his works interesting is the use of colors.
Liv Vinluan
Liv Vinluan was born in the late eighties in the city of Manila.
She graduated from the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman and has been exhibiting her work for the past sixteen years.
In 2015, she completed the watercolor piece Cariño Brutal, a monumental work which was Shortlisted for the 2016 Ateneo Art Awards-Fernando Zobel Prize for Visual Art. In early 2016 she was invited by the López Museum & Library for the exhibition, EXPOSITIÓN. The following year her work for EXPOSITIÓN, Ang Cabilogan ng Isang Cuadranggulo (The Roundness of a Square), was nominated for the 4th Edition of the prestigious APB-Signature Art Prize. She was also chosen as the recipient of The Karen H. Montinola Selection grant in the 2019 edition of Art Fair Philippines.
She received the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Thirteen Artists Award in 2024.
History remains as the singular, defining cornerstone of her work. To this day she continues her investigations on death and mortality, the cyclicality of histories, the inconsistencies of human character and behaviour, and the passage of time.
Paulo Vinluan
Paulo Vinluan (born in 1980) studied Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Painting from the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines. He also studied at Pratt Institute in New York. He has received awards in the 20th Metrobank Young Painters’ Annual (Watercolor Category), and 2003 Philip Morris Philippine Art Award. When he graduated in 2004, he had his first solo show, “Speck”, at Finale Art File in SM Megamall. He had exhibitions in galleries like Finale Art File, West Gallery, Silverlens, and Blanc. He has also shown his works in UP Vargas Museum, Art Central Hong Kong, Xavier Art Fest, Bencab Museum, and Element Art Space in Singapore.
Working between painting and animation, Paulo’s works depict a graphic mix of fables, myths, and personal narratives. His works involve boulders being pushed up, figures that go around orbs, and colors spinning around. The repeating images create patterns. From these sequences, narratives arise. They trace and ponder the path taken by the protagonist or by themselves.