Soler San Pedro Santos (b. 1960), who signs his work as “Soler,” held his first one-man show in 1981 at the Luz Gallery when he was 21 years old. He has had over 40 solo exhibitions since. Soler actively joins group exhibitions in galleries, as well as institutions like the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Vargas Museum, Museo Iloilo, and Ayala Museum. Soler has been known to paint subjects culled from nature, but his interest seems to lay in observations of different environments in general.

In over three decades of his career in art, Soler has represented the Philippines abroad—at the Young Art in Asia (Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, 1980), 25 Young Artists (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1983), 2nd Asian Show (Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, 1985), Seoul Contemporary Art Show (The National Museum of Art, Korea, 1986), 14th Asian Show (Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, 1999), 11th International Biennal Print and Drawing Exhibition (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2004). He is also the recipient of several art awards including First Prize at the ASEAN Painting Competition in 1983 and the CCP Thirteen Artists Award in 1992. He was also a Finalist for the Philippine Art Awards in 1994, 1997, 2001, 2003, and 2005. Soler studied at the College of Fine Arts in the University of the Philippines from 1978 to 1981. He founded West Gallery with his artist wife, Mona Santos, in 1989.