Kristoffer Brasileño
Painter, Instructor
Kristoffer Brasileño is an Iloilo-based visual artist and educator known for realistic, representational paintings and murals that explore Filipino, specifically Ilonggo, identity, memory, and culture. He blends traditional oil painting with digital media, often incorporating themes of surrealism, indigenous, and colonial-era iconography.
Brasileño runs Thrive Art Gallery with his wife in Iloilo City.
Workshops, Residencies, Projects
Nocturne
Thrive Art Gallery, 2025
Kristoffer Brasileño’s “Nocturne” shows the audience a collection of dreamscapes, where the boundaries between imagination and reality blur. Drawing inspiration from the alluring world of Surrealism, Brasileño invites us to explore dreamlike imagery and symbolic elements composed of muses veiled by fabrics against the backdrop of enigmatic landscapes, and nature reflecting the wilderness of the unconscious mind.
Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale
Mokpo, 2023
Poh Chang International Art Festival and Art Workshop
Thailand, 2023
Ilonggo Republic
National Commission on Culture and the Arts, 2021
