CHATI CORONEL

Chati Coronel (b. 1970, Manila; lives and works in Canada) treats painting as ritual, art as sacred ceremony. For over thirty years, she has wielded pigment like a tuning fork, using color and silhouette to awaken the power of symbols in figure and shape. She calls this process Figurative Spatialism: a practice where figure becomes space, a portal through which sacred truths are at once veiled and revealed.

Trained in architecture, led by spirit and informed by cosmology and mysticism, Coronel's work is a metaphysical excavation. Each painting is built from multiple translucent layers, each one a breath, a veil, a step further back toward the source. With a discipline rooted in daily spiritual practice, she uses light, space, and process to straddle the fine line between matter and spirit. Her paintings function as consecrated objects, talismans designed to sanctify space and exalt consciousness in those who encounter them.

Coronel's work has been shown internationally, including Art Basel Hong Kong, Frieze Seoul, and 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 is represented by Silverlens Galleries.