Guerrero Habulan

Born in Manila in the 1980s, Guerrero Habulan became aware of the ironies of community and elite authority at a very young age. As a child, he started making space for himself in the cluttered working table of his father, renowned social realist Renato Habulan, finding it natural to draw and doodle on the paper scraps he found. He tried to create a path away from art before he entered the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts program, but eventually found his way back in 2001 when he won Third Place in the 18th Young Painters Annual Competition of the Metrobank Foundation.

In 2003, he was awarded the top prize in the 36th Shell National Students Art Competition. He is the 2011 and 2025 Vermont Studio Center Artist in Residency Awardee and was an artist in residence at Artesan Art Gallery Singapore in 2012. He was also one of the CCP Thirteen Artists Awardees in 2018 and is a member of Sangviaje, a group of young contemporary artists based in Antipolo. He has mounted solo exhibitions in the Boston Gallery, Ayala Museum Artist Space, Pinto Art Museum, BenCab Museum, Art Verite, Art Fair PH with Art Cube Philippines, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines, as well as Utterly Art and Artesan Art Gallery in Singapore. Habulan has also participated innotable group shows in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Copenhagen, and New York.