REGINA REYES (b. Manila, 1993) is a Filipino visual artist whose practice explores memory, home, and the fragile intersections between the ephemeral and the enduring.
Raised in an ancestral house in the province of Rizal, her early years spent in a home steeped in heritage shaped what has become an ongoing investigation into domesticity, the familial, and the shifting, fragile nature of human memory—how it erodes, fades, and rebuilds itself over time, leaving behind intangible traces within lived spaces.
Reyes works across painting, collage, embroidery, and text. In her needlework, she reflects on the intricacies of womanhood; in collage, she treats her environment as collaborator and co-author; and in painting and writing, she contemplates the fleeting alongside the immutable, tracing beauty in the quiet currents of everyday life.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2017 and has exhibited widely across the Philippines, and most recently in Taiwan. Her recent solo exhibitions include A Trace, A Room (Galerie Stephanie, 2025), Mind Dust (Blanc Gallery, 2024), Passerby (Gravity Art Space, 2023), and Chasing The Quiet (Mono8 Gallery, 2023).
In 2025, Reyes was awarded a fellowship by the Maybank Foundation Artist Fellowship Programme in Malaysia, where she was the sole representative of the Philippines among twelve Southeast Asian participants. A culminating exhibition will take place in Kuala Lumpur in November 2025.
She currently lives and works between Metro Manila and General Santos City, Mindanao.
Photo by: Marius Dideles