Buenaventura, Nice

Nice Buenaventura is a highly decorated contemporary Filipino artist and educator. She holds dual postgraduate degrees in Media and Arts Technology from Queen Mary, University of London, and the Ateneo de Manila University. In 2021, she achieved a rare and prestigious dual milestone in the Philippine art scene, receiving both the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Thirteen Artists Award and the Ateneo Art Awards’ Fernando Zóbel Prize for Visual Art.

Represented by Artinformal since 2018, Buenaventura has a prolific global footprint, having exhibited and spoken at symposia across Southeast Asia, East Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. She has also served as a faculty member in the Department of Fine Arts at the Ateneo de Manila University.

Selected Solo & Recent Exhibitions:

2026: Solo Exhibition (Forthcoming) – Artinformal, Makati City

2026: A World of Islands – Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City

2025: Technomagickck and other blunders (Solo) – Artinformal, Makati City

2025: Fugitive Archives – Monash Art, Design and Architecture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2024: Mt. Pareidolia (Solo) – Artinformal, Makati City

2024: Polymer & Palm (Excerpts of the Tropikalye Index) – Benilde Open, Manila

2023: The New Word for World is Archipelago (Solo) – Thirteen Artists Awards Exhibition, CCP, Manila

2020: Boolean Garden (Interface as Landscape) (Solo) – Queen Mary, University of London

Grants, Residencies & Distinctions:

2024–2025: Artist Residency – Casa Romana, Pampanga, Philippines

2024: Project Grant – Benilde Open, De La Salle – College of St. Benilde

2022–2023: Southeast Asian Artists Residency – Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia

2021: Winner – Ateneo Art Awards (Fernando Zóbel Prize for Visual Art)

2021: Recipient – Thirteen Artists Award (Cultural Center of the Philippines)

2019–2021: Transnational Study Grant – Commission on Higher Education (CHED)

Global Platforms & Speaking Engagements:

2024: Speaker, Environmentally Engaged Artistic Practices Symposium – NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore

2023: Speaker, Climate Futures: Belonging and Shared Responsibilities – Siem Reap, Cambodia

2021: Remote International Critic, Printmaking Thesis Committee – Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA