Dina Gadia (b.1986, Pangasinan, Philippines; lives and works in Manila, Philippines) is an artist recognised for her visually arresting and playfully representational style. Imbued with her signature pop sensibility, her collages and paintings combine ambiguous text and other quotidian expressions with popular printed matter such as “B” movie posters, album covers, pulp, comics, and other obscure images.

By reframing images of previous generations as her own, she evokes large localised contexts and people to critically interrogate issues regarding postcolonial attitudes, disparate economic realities, and female inequity. Always tough, but also raw and humorous, her deadpan narration told via ironic visual puns eliminates any trace of sentimentality or self-righteous judgment in her creations.

She has exhibited extensively since 2005, leading solo presentations both locally and internationally in New York, Taipei, Singapore, and Tokyo. She was a member of the Bastards of Misrepresentation, a group of ambitious, avant-garde individuals gathered by the acclaimed contemporary artist, Manuel Ocampo; Gadia exhibited with the group in New York back in 2012, in a survey show that demonstrated Manila’s dynamic art scene. She was a finalist for the Ateneo Art Awards, a respected award for emerging artists, in 2012 and 2018. In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious national Thirteen Artists Awards by the Cultural Center of the Philippines. In 2019, Gadia participated in City Prince/sses at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.