Ronald Ventura
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.