Martin Honasan

b. 1976

PaintingMixed Media

@martinhonasan.art martinhonasan.wixsite.com/martinhonasan

Based in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines. He soaks, crumples and tears fabric scraps and old canvas, layers them onto the picture surface and paints human faces over them. His series have drawn on the flooding of the Marikina River, worship and migration. He held a residency and solo show at YOD Gallery in Osaka in 2016 and the solo show "Kyojin" at YOD TOKYO in 2023, and in September 2026 took part in "UNCONDITIONAL," a group exhibition of thirteen Filipino artists at YOD Gallery in Tennozu, Tokyo.

Career

- Born 1976, Quezon City, Philippines; based in Marikina, Metro Manila - Education: BA Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology and Communication Arts clusters), Ateneo de Manila University - Before painting full-time: visual artist and art director in advertising (1999–2001); managing partner of his own design firm (2001–2004) - Selected solo exhibitions: "Soil," Boston Gallery, Quezon City (2014); "Everything Is Created Twice," Cultural Center of the Philippines, Pasay (2015); "An Other," Vinyl on Vinyl, Makati (2015); "Even These Stones Will Cry Out," YOD Gallery, Osaka (2016); "Pulô," Ayala Museum ArtistSpace, Makati (2017); "Bautismo," Art Cube Gallery (2019); "The Distance Between Two Points," Vinyl on Vinyl, SMX Aura, Taguig (2020); "Closing the Gap," Art Cube Gallery (2022); "Kyojin," YOD TOKYO, Tokyo (13–25 December 2023) - Other exhibitions: "Parallel Psalms," White Walls Gallery, Makati (2024, nine paintings shown with music) - Selected group exhibitions and fairs: VOLTA New York, "River" (2018, YOD Gallery); Asia NOW Paris ("Nomads" 2019; 2021; 2022, Vinyl on Vinyl); "Man and Monster," PARA Collective, Orange Project, Bacolod (2022); Art Fair Asia Fukuoka (2022, YOD Gallery; 2025, DF Art Agency); "Re-Purposeful," Kate Contemporary, Madrid (2025); "UNCONDITIONAL," YOD Gallery Tennozu, Tokyo (9 September – 3 October 2026, part of TENNOZ ART WEEK 2026) - Residency: YOD Gallery artist in residence, Neyagawa, Osaka (June 2016) - Website: martinhonasan.wixsite.com/martinhonasan Instagram: @martinhonasan.art

Work examples

Martin HonasanClosing the Gap

Martin HonasanReverence

Martin HonasanTakas (ahon; to surface)

Martin HonasanMoveable Feast