Filipino artists' roles and their contribution to contemporary arts, as well as the place of the region in contemporary Philippine art.

A new wave of local artists were brought into the spotlight after the Philippines participated in the Venice Biennale.You should know about 10 contemporary Filipino artists.

Concepcion is a studio artist who works with intense emotion, deconstructing images in his paintings, sculptures, and installations.He creates art similar to recording a music album, where each painting is from a series of nine.Concepcion describes it as producing an old favorite, a classic, sleeper hit and one piece he doesn't like but keeps coming back to.

He graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in Fine Arts.He moved to New York in 2002 and spent a lot of time in Brooklyn, where he participated in art residences for the Bronx Museum of Art Artists-in-the-Marketplace (AIM) Program.The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council has a workspace program.

Concepcion performed a solo show at the U.P. in Manila.The El Museo del Barrio La Bienal is in New York.He received the 13th Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Ventura has a degree in Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Santo Tomas.He found his true calling as a visual artist after his first solo exhibition at the Drawing Room in Makati in 2000.Ventura uses imagery that focuses on the human form in his work.His paintings are a combination of comic sketches, reality and graffiti.He likes to draw inspiration from Asian mythology, Catholicism, science fiction and comic book characters.His painting Grayground sold for over a million dollars at an auction in Hong Kong.

Leeroy's work blends theatre, fashion, film, production design, and public art.He completed his Fine Arts degree at the University of the Philippines after graduating from the prestigious Philippine High School for the Arts.He was awarded the 13 Artists Award by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and received artist residences in Singapore and Australia.Common objects and materials are used in his large-scale public art.

Leeroy collaborated with the local government to convert discarded water tanks and cement fountains into a park filled with sculptures.His most recent grant from the Burning Man Global Arts foundation was used to transform the most polluted waterway in Manila with floating installations.

Villamiel is a multimedia artist known for his large-scale installations consisting of objects found in local communities.His installations have enthralled audiences for the past decade, but his art career may have started later in life.He held his first solo exhibition in 2006 after working as a set designer for television, a leather bag craftsman and a successful t-shirt company.

He filled a room with thousands of bullhorns in his show at the Light and Space Contemporary in Manila.When viewed at a certain angle, the bullhorn installation looked like a terrain of weeds.The current socio-political situation in the country is highlighted by Villamiel's work.Payatas, which features thousands of doll heads, was chosen to represent the Philippines in the Singapore Biennale exhibition.Two-and-a-half years is how long it took him to finish this work.

Dexter is a Caloocan native who practices a variety of art forms.He participated in art residency programs in Lir Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, the Asian Cultural Council in New York, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts.

Pop culture, graffiti, children's drawings, and tattoos are some of the influences on his work.He is known for his on-going series of Garapata street art, filling public spaces with the idea of infecting the city with his art.

Fernandez has exhibited in top galleries in the Philippines and abroad, including in Paris, New York, and the Singapore Biennale.He participated in the Art Fair with another Filipino artist.

Neil is a Bacolod-born artist from a family of craftsmen and boat builders.He displayed creativity as a child.He has used clay figures for most of his life.

Currently based in Manila, he has become known for his paintings that hold multiple layers, using different medium to expose new forms.The Drawing Room of Manila, Artinformal Gallery, and West Gallery show the work of Pasilan.Art Fair Philippines featured a collaboration with Raffy Napay.

Kidlat Tahimik and German artist Katrin de Guia are both related to this artist.The Philippines has a changing urban culture.He rearranged texts and icons to create a painting that depicted the human form in new ways.His work is influenced by popular culture.He blings out discarded Jukeboxes and creates sculptures and massive art installations.

He started the Ax(iS) Art Project to promote the local artist community in the cold hill station of Baguio and the Cordilleras.There have been solo exhibitions in the Philippines and abroad.He was a guest at the Singapore Biennale.