Tanya Villanueva (b. 1983) is a visual artist, born and raised in the Philippines. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Painting from the University of the Philippines, Dressmaking Certificate at Miriam College’s night school program and most recently finished basic hairdressing course at David’s Academy.

Her work as a visual artist has developed over the years from looking into work and production of art objects through the lens of painting, craft and photography; to exploring the performance and nature of this cultural labor through collaborative activities that involve care and focus on the reparative approach to art-making.

To collaborate with artist friends and with her child is her way of working to care for their place in the art system, and to highlight the life that thrives behind the objects and the output of art production. She uses various mediums to explore ways to merge and perform the specific position she has as a mother, an artist and the sole parent to her daughter.

Her approach is to pair grand gestures with personal positions employing the method of embellishment for transformation, using these to guide compositions about documenting the practice of her time by marking personal movement/non-movement, inspiration/non-inspiration.

She is guided by the fact that art has always been perched on the idea of excess, all the while living in a condition of lack.

Micaela Benedicto

Manila

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