Bautista, Lymuel

Lymuel Bautista (b. 1994) grew up in San Jose, Calumpit, Bulacan. He studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in Visual Communication at Bulacan State University.
Bautista had won several art competitions, such as in 2018, when he won the Grand Prize award in Vision Petron National Art Competition. In 2021, he became shortlisted in Ateneo Art Gallery Marciano-Galang Acquisition Prize. He also placed as a semi-finalist in 2016 and 2018 in Metrobank Art and Design Excellence, and in 2021, he won the Grand Prize in the water-based division of the same national contest.
He also became a "Tuklas" awardee under the mentorship of two well-known artists, Renato Habulan and Alfredo Esquillo, as part of Eskinita Art Gallery's year-long mentoring program for young artists in 2019. Bautista's works fearlessly focus on social ills, human rights narratives, and his own personal experiences. He is best known for distorted, warped figures stressing struggle in its most crucial definition.
As an artist, among his many influences are music and his experience as a student journalist. Both had a great impact on his explorations in creating striking surreal works.