BJORN CALLEJA
b. 1981, PhilippinesBjorn Calleja is a Filipino contemporary painter and interdisciplinary artist. He earned his BFA from Far Eastern University, where he later became a part-time lecturer. Aside from exhibiting his work, his early career involved corporate jobs and stints as a graphic designer. He also co-founded Other Things (2012—2014), a design studio that employed a team of visual artists.
Calleja’s work draws on identity, spirituality, art, general and personal history, and everyday politics, utilising perspective and a play of scale as metaphor to how we as humans affect the world at large. His paintings, sculptures, installations, and animations are heavily influenced by 1980s and 90s popular culture, kitsch, the internet, and the aesthetics and textures of Manila’s landscape.
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