Art & Design

An Oakland-raised, UCLA-trained Filipino American whose practice — from five-story murals to NBA court designs to a 20,000-square-foot immersive installation — has been shaped by a single conviction: that painting big enough can turn the lights back on.

A Manila-born artist who painted four thousand years of Filipino American history onto a Hollywood wall at age 22, and has spent the three decades since making work that insists immigrant lives, labor struggles, and matriarchal courage deserve to be seen at the scale of a city.