Winner Jumalon, Wide-eyed Boy, 2003

Oil on canvas
85.5 x 85.5 cm (visible), 89.5 x 89.5 x 3.5 cm (framed)
Condition: Very good

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Winner Jumalon (Filipino, b. 1983) trained at the Philippine High School for the Arts (Mt. Makiling, Laguna) before earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (Diliman, Quezon City). Based in Manila, he has become one of the most visible and influential artists of his generation in the Philippines. He was awarded the Thirteen Artists Award by the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2009. Over the past two decades he has exhibited widely across Southeast Asia and internationally, and his works have been listed in major auction houses, increasingly recognised in the secondary market.

Jumalon’s art explores identity, memory, cultural history and the shifting notion of self in contemporary society. His paintings in oil or encaustic feature textured, layered portraits, figures and spaces that combine personal narrative, history and myth. He draws inspiration from familiar faces, places and everyday objects, transforming them into evocative, sometimes haunting compositions that blur boundaries between past and present, individual and collective. His work challenges conventional portraiture and invites viewers to reflect on how identity is shaped by cultural legacy, memory and the environments we inhabit.

Acquired from Masterpiece Singapore.

(Photographed in November 2025)