CHATI CORONEL

Chati Coronel (b. 1970, Manila; lives and works in Toronto) makes paintings the way stars make light—layer by layer, from the void outward. Her work is not about the figure, but the force within it. For over thirty years, she has wielded pigment like a tuning fork, using color and silhouette not to represent the body, but to awaken what it remembers. She calls this process Figurative Spatialism: a practice where figure becomes space, and space becomes memory, and memory becomes a portal.

Trained in architecture but led by spirit, Coronel’s work is a metaphysical excavation. Each painting is built from many translucent layers—each one a breath, a veil, a step further back toward the source. Her canvases are not surfaces. They are thresholds. Cosmology and mysticism are not references in Coronel’s work—they are the air it breathes. With a discipline rooted in daily spiritual practice, she paints as if building a bridge between dimensions. The nervous system becomes a wand. The heart becomes the grail. The spine becomes the sword. Her paintings do not speak in image—they transmit in frequency.

Her work has been shown internationally—Art Basel Hong Kong, Frieze Seoul, The Armory Show New York—and lives in collections across Asia and North America. But its true home is the liminal, the spiritual, the unseen. Chati Coronel paints not to be understood, but to be felt—deeply, bodily, tectonically. Chati Coronel is represented by Silverlens Gallery.