Lesley-Anne Cao (b. 1992) is an artist exploring the interplay of materiality, language, and art making. She works with self-produced and found objects, images, and text—often involving collaborators in different fields such as music, literature, crafts, and digital technologies—alongside mutable materials, machines, and environmental elements. With an intuitive and process-driven approach to installation, sculpture, video, and text, Cao’s work explores transformations in recognizable forms, environments, and narratives.

She has held solo exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, MO_Space, The Drawing Room, and Underground. She has been granted artist residencies at Gasworks, London (2023) and HART Haus, Hong Kong (2024), among others. Some of her recent exhibitions include “Moments of Delay” at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila (2025), “Weather-world” at Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2024), “Nothing human is alien to me” at A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur (2023), and the New Cinema Competition at the 15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, UK (2019). She completed her BFA from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in 2014.

Portrait by Kiko Nuñez