CHATI CORONEL
CHATI CORONEL (b. 1970, Manila; lives and works in Toronto) paints as if memory, myth, and molecular structure were one language. Her three-decade inquiry—Figurative Spatialism—is less a style than a ritual: silhouettes become topographies, pigment becomes time. Trained in architecture, Coronel constructs psychic diagrams of the human condition, positioning the body as a cosmic receiver.
Her work has been seen in sixteen solo exhibitions and featured at Art Basel Hong Kong, Frieze Seoul, and The Armory Show, New York. Her paintings live in collections across Asia and North America. Informed by cosmology, mysticism, and the physics of being, Coronel's work doesn't illustrate—it invokes. She is represented by Silverlens Galleries.
ARTIST’S CV:
Education
1991 B.S. Architecture, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, PH
Residencies
2000 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
Solo Exhibitions — selected
2023 Degrees of Softness, Giant Dwarf Gallery, Angono, PH
2022 Inner Constellations, Silverlens (online), Manila, PH
2021 Celestial Data for Daydreaming, Silverlens, Manila, PH
2020 BE THE___, Silverlens (online), Manila, PH
2018 The Infinite Yes, Silverlens, Manila, PH
2016 The Way In / The Way Out, Silverlens, Manila, PH
2015 How to Open a Mountain, Silverlens, Manila, PH
2014 The First Kiss on Earth, Silverlens, Singapore
2010 An Hour in a Glass Balloon, Silverlens, Manila, PH
2007 Minus, Groundfloor@SanteeCourt, Los Angeles, USA
Art Fairs & Presentations — selected
2024 Art Fair Philippines, Manila
2023 The Armory Show, New York • Frieze Seoul, Seoul
2019 – 2022 Art Basel Hong Kong (Silverlens booth)
Group Exhibitions — selected (since 2018)
2024 Art Fair Philippines (booth), Manila
2023 Shrines and Spirits, Silverlens, New York
2022 Hitherto V, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, PH
2019 The Hybridity and Dynamism of the Contemporary Art of the Philippines, HansaeYes24 Foundation, Seoul
2018 Shared Coordinates, The Arts House, Singapore
Publications & Catalogues
2022 Unstruck Sound: Book of Imaginary Letters (Blurb)
2015 Word Paintings (Silverlens Publications)
2014 Pinggot Zulueta, “Art Comes From a Feeling of Happiness,” Manila Bulletin, 31 Mar
Selected Press
2015 Artnet, “10 Must‑See International Gallery Shows,” 1 Oct
2013 Philippine Star, “Louis Vuitton Highlights Filipino Artists,” 18 Dec
Full exhibition history and bibliography available upon request.
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A Note on Authenticity
Chati Coronel’s creative practice honors the tangible—the texture of canvas, the weight of paper, the presence that the works plus the materials possess together. Each piece exists as a singular expression, born from direct engagement with materials and meant to be encountered in physical form.
The artist does not create or authorize digital tokens or NFTs of this work. The authentic experience of these pieces lives solely in their original, physical manifestation.