Yasmin Sison-Ching

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    With degrees in both Humanities and Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines, it is no wonder Yasmin Sison has a conceptual approach to her art. Sison is also a founding member of the art collective Surrounded by Water. Before becoming a full-time artist, she took several teaching jobs, the last and longest of which was as a pre-school teacher. Her interest in children also reflects in the way elements of childhood recur in her art. Her works have been exhibited across the Southeast Asian region.

    In 2006, she became a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines' Thirteen Artists Award and in the following year she was shortlisted in the Ateneo Art Awards.

With degrees in both Humanities and Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines, it is no wonder Yasmin Sison has a conceptual approach to her art. Sison is also a founding member of the art collective Surrounded by Water. Before becoming a full-time artist, she took several teaching jobs, the last and longest of which was as a pre-school teacher. Her interest in children also reflects in the way elements of childhood recur in her art. Her works have been exhibited across the Southeast Asian region.

In 2006, she became a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines' Thirteen Artists Award and in the following year she was shortlisted in the Ateneo Art Awards.

Selected Exhibitions

MANILA
05 October - 04 November 2023
Time is a Restless Sea
Silverlens, Manila
In 'Time is a Restless Sea,' Sison creates autobiographical paintings, as she has done so for over two decades, with fleeting moments captured and memorialised in pigment and canvas forever. Set against the sea, sky, and sand, nature becomes the foil to Sison’s paintings’ protagonists.
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