Emerging Artist in the Philippines

Ronald Ventura
• (Filipino, b.1973) was born in Manila, Philippines. In 1993, the artist earned a BFA in
Painting from the University of Santo Tomas. After graduating, he worked at the
university as an instructor. Ventura had his first solo exhibitions in 2000, called All
Souls Day, which was held at the Drawing Room in Makati City, Philippines,
and Innerscapes, which was held at the West Gallery Megamall in Mandaluyong City. 

Since then, Ventura has continued to refine his signature style of multi-layered
paintings, which utilize a broad range of imagery and tend to focus around the human
form. In addition to paintings, Ventura also makes sculptures that explore the same
themes and aesthetics as his two-dimensional works. In 2001, he received the Artist of
the Year prize from Art Manilla, and then in 2005, he won the prestigious Ateneo Art
Gallery, Studio Residency Grant in Sydney, Australia, for his The Human Study series
of graphite works on canvas. He also participated in the Prague Biennale in 2009. 

Ventura had his first exhibition in America at Tyler Rollins Fine Art Gallery in New York
in 2009; Metaphysics of Skin contained paintings and the Zoomanities sculpture series.
The same gallery hosted his A Thousand Islandsshow in 2011. That same year,
Ventura’s Greyhound sold for US$1.1 million at Sotheby’s Contemporary Southeast
Asian Painting auction in Hong Kong.
High Five I by Ronald Ventura
 Kiko Escora
• Kiko Escora is a Filipino visual artist who was
born in 1970. Kiko Escora has had several
gallery and museum exhibitions, including at
The Drawing Room, Makati. Many works by
the artist have been sold at auction, including
'Sanguine Menagerie (Diptych)' sold at Leon
Gallery, Makati 'The Kingly Treasures Auction
2014' in 2014 for $31,178.
Kiko Escora
 Annie Cabigting
• She is an electric artist with varied works of
paintings and installations. Her works are
historical perspectives on the constitutions of
art. Her works have been included in the
Prague Biennale in the Czech Republic.
 Annie Cabigting
An Audience with Vermeer
 Angeli Bayani
• Angeli Bayani is a Filipina actress. She is best
known for starring in Philippine art-house and
independent films notably those by Lav Diaz's
Melancholia (2008) and Norte, the End of
History (2013) for which she won the 2014
Gawad Urian Award for Best Actress.[1] She
also appeared in the Camera d'Or-winning
Singaporean film Ilo Ilo (2013) by Anthony
Chen.[2]
 Angelie Bayani
Movie poster for the film “Iloilo”
 Joshua Lim So
• Playwriting Competition, will be presented by Destiyero Theater
Commune on Feb. 12-13 in Tanghalang Huseng Batute, Cultural
Center of the Philippines, as part of the first-ever Fringe Manila
theater festival.
• The play is set in the near future, when the country is once
again under the control of a totalitarian regime. Pa and Ma,
both belonging to the generation born after the People Power
Revolution of 1986, live in a decrepit apartment. As Pa prepares
dinner, Ma witnesses from the window a young man being
captured and beaten up by the police. Fred, the young man, is
able to escape, and the couple harbors him when he seeks
refuge.
 Joshua Lim So
Poster for the play “Tungkol kay Angela”
 Ed Lacson
• Edgardo Gapuz Lacson is a Philippine businessperson who has been at the head of 11
different companies and presently occupies the position of Chairman at MIL Export
Philippines, Chairman at Primelode, Chairman at Beacon Environmental
Management Services, Chairman of Metrostore Corp., Managing Director at Link
Edge, Inc., President of EML Realty, President for Marine Industrial Supply Corp.,
President for Mis Maritime Corp. and President for Safe Seas Shipping Agency Co.,
Inc. Mr. Lacson is also Chairman & President at Employers Confederation of the
Philippines, Member of Philippine Inter-Island Shipping Association, Member of The
Management Association of the Philippines, Member of Makati Business
Development Council and Member of Philippine Nippon Kyokai Technical and on the
board of 8 other companies.

In his past career Mr. Lacson was President of Philippine Chamber of Commerce &
Industry.

Mr. Lacson received an undergraduate degree from De La Salle University.

Ed Lacson on the set of Games People Play
 Sophia Lee
• Sophia Lee (1750 – 13 March 1824) was an English novelist, dramatist
and educator.
• She was the daughter of John Lee (died 1781), actor and theatrical
manager, and was born in London. Her first piece, The Chapter of
Accidents, a three-act drama based on Denis Diderot's Le père de
famille, was produced by George Colman the Elder at the
Haymarket Theatre on 5 August 1780 and was an immediate success. [1]
• When her father died in 1781, Lee spent the proceeds of the play on
establishing a school at Bath, where she made a home for her sisters
Anne and Harriet. Her novel The Recess, or a Tale of other
Times (1783–85) was a historical romance; and the play Almeyda,
Queen of Grenada (1796) was a long tragedy in blank verse, which
opened at Drury Lane on 20 April 1796 but ran for only five nights.[2]
Sophia Lee