Nice Buenaventura (b. 1984) is a visual artist from Manila. Her methods revolve around the offloading of tensions, often between ethics and aesthetics, through drawing, painting, installation, new media and citizen-ethnography. This offloading extends to her project called Tropikalye, an online co-learning resource on vernacular culture in tropical and postcolonial Philippines. Varied modes of productivity allow her work to become generative expressions of concern, tracing links between seemingly disparate issues using the logics of the archipelago.

Nice holds postgraduate degrees in media and arts technology from Queen Mary, University of London and Ateneo de Manila University. She has presented work and participated in art-adjacent projects in Southeast Asia, East Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. In 2021, she received the Cultural Center of the Philippines – Thirteen Artists Award and the Ateneo Art Awards – Fernando Zóbel Prize for Visual Art.

Portrait by Joseph Pascual