Renato Orara is a Philippine-born and New York-based artist whose focus over the last 25 years has been an ongoing series of ballpoint works on paper called Ten Thousand Things that Breathe. His work has been exhibited in Asia, Europe, and the United States, and has found its way into private, as well as museum collections like The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Singapore Art Museum.

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