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Visitors gaze up at the towering “Detritus” triptych, a wall-sized graphite field of drawn rubble, bones and relief objects, in the dock hall

From Malabon to Venezia: Ronald Ventura mounts collateral show at 61st Venice Art Biennale

Four in the morning in Malabon in the Nineties, sopas at Connie’s, and a father who recognises his own town inside a drawing of Venice.

By Igan D'Bayan · June 15, 2026
Ronald Ventura in his studio steadying a monumental winged male figure sculpture, a coiled woven form and shelves of casts behind

Malabon artist sets sail for Venice

Ronald Ventura transforms boat-body sculptures and lunar motifs into a meditation on water, survival, and the fragile ties between two cities.

By Igan D'Bayan · March 16, 2026
Ronald Ventura’s Istraktura, in which a small boy in a white tank top drags a chain across a grayscale construction site of orange cranes, mining trucks and a colossal stone face

Ronald Ventura’s ‘Kalupaan’: Appetite for reconstruction

Saints in hard hats and a bird nesting in a construction site: Ronald Ventura asks what progress costs, in the first show at Cloudgrey Gallery.

By Igan D'Bayan · March 3, 2025
Ronald Ventura’s ‘State of Bloom’: a woman in a pink gown amid palms, butterflies, engines and an astronaut under a teal sky

In bloom: Filipino artist Ronald Ventura sets new record at Christie’s

The artist continues not just to break records at auction houses but also records how society blooms away from what it is originally.

By Igan D'Bayan · October 16, 2024
Painting of a grayscale young woman with a color anime-eyes panel collaged across her face, Ventura’s Doll Eyes

Ronald Ventura’s hyper-realist Olympics

Two Tokyo shows timed to the Olympics: Ronald Ventura on anime eyes, emoji as language, and a reality we can no longer tell from the cartoon.

By Igan D'Bayan · August 9, 2021