Luis Lorenzana (b.1979 Manila; lives and works in Manila) started his artistic practice working with illustration. He then went on to learn painting by studying some of the world’s most important artworks housed in major institutions and museums. While his early works reflected socio-political aspects informed by his experience working at the Philippine Senate, his recent paintings and drawings tread more on formalist approaches and in the deconstruction and construction of profiles through portraiture anchored in abstraction and pop surrealism. Lorenzana’s works were featured in solo and group exhibitions in Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, and the United States. He was a finalist in the Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards, the International Book Illustration Competitions, and the Metrobank Art and Design Excellence (MADE) Awards. In 2020, the Katzen Arts Center at the American University Museum in Washington, D.C., presented his first solo institutional exhibition.