Based in Metro Manila, Michelle Pérez has established herself as an essential, self-taught force within the landscape of contemporary Philippine non-figurative art. Lacking the rigid presets of conventional academic systems, her creative development evolved through personal research into chemistry, material behaviors, and structural boundaries.
Pérez’s rigorous, process-heavy studio output has captured significant regional and global attention. Beyond her long-running partnership with Artinformal gallery—one of the country's premier incubators for progressive, concept-driven contemporary art—she has successfully expanded into the international Southeast Asian circuit through representation by elite institutions like TAKSU Galleries in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. In 2026, her practice reached a major milestone when she was selected for a core institutional group survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, solidifying her status as a vital contemporary voice redefining the limits of abstract expressionism.
Selected Institutional Group Surveys
2026: Material Instincts – Staged at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (The MET Manila), Taguig City. A landmark four-artist exhibition probing localized materiality within international contemporary dialogues, alongside Olivia d'Aboville, Marionne Contreras, and Monica Delgado.
2024: AMA: UTA Annual Juried Exhibition – Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, USA.
2023: Archives IV – Artinformal Gallery, Makati City, Philippines.
2020: The Future Of Our World As It Is Known to Caribou – Artinformal, Metro Manila.
2019: Microdose: A Small Works Show – Booth Gallery, New York City, USA.
2019: Microdose: Small Works By Big Artists – Last Rites Gallery, New York City, USA.
Auction Records & Secondary Market Presence
Pérez's transition into premier fine art repositories is actively archived on global market tracking databases like MutualArt. Her works have been successfully cataloged and acquired through elite domestic auction venues:
2020 Auction Debut: Her landmark foundational painting titled 2020 was officially consigned, cataloged, and sold through León Gallery, Makati City, anchoring her long-term profile within elite private and corporate modern art collections across the Philippines.
