Seven Exhibits You Shouldn’t Miss This October and November
From Gary Ross-Pastrana’s study of collage and Liv Vinluan’s seething portrayals of feminine rage to Jonathan Ching’s meditations on decay, galleries across Metro Manila remind us of the magnitude of art’s power to reflect the human condition.
A unique experience awaits vistors to Lindslee’s life-size sculpture exhibit, as well as the energetic torrent of sociopolitical commentaries of Jose Tence Ruiz, Pete Jimenez, and Deng Coy Miel’s reminiscence of their early years as artists.
Happening between October and November, here are seven exhibits to book in your calendar.
The Grand Scheme of Things: Lindslee at Finale Art File
It all began with a sculpture at the ALT fair early in the year: a drunken bulbous-bellied man, slumped in his seat with beads of sweat so convincing you could make out its stench from afar. In this show, the artist expands this series of life-size trompe l’oiel sculptures with deeply disturbing, if honest, afflictions, representing various Filipino archetypes. Nobody is spared in Lindslee’s cast of the grotesque.
The exhibition runs through October 31, 2026. For more information, please visit their website.
Pears and Oranges: Jonathan Ching at Blanc Gallery
For Jonathan Ching, the beauty of the simplest things remain veiled until they are honored with attention. Enveloping viewers with textured charcoal illustrations, sculptures, and herculean paintings of pears, oranges and carnations, the exhibit becomes a grand illustration of Ching’s quiet, reverential attitude towards transience and decay. Spanning nearly two decades, the artist’s solemn practice feels almost like one of a monk’s.
The exhibition runs through October 31, 2026. For more information, please visit their website.
The Aviary: Iya Regalario at Bunso Gallery
Iya Regalario’s pyrographs may be the invigorating show for collectors and enthusiasts yearning for something different. The exhibit is anchored in the artist’s study of life in Baguio, a bustling mountaintop city tired of its tourists, as Regalario observes. Scorching tarot-imagery onto tabletops and wooden tablets, the former Manila-based artist attempts to evoke the muffled dogfight residents and natives of the city grappling with them.
The exhibition runs through November 1, 2026. For more information, please visit their instagram.
Trichotomy (Three-Way Schizoid): Pete Jimenez, Deng Coy Miel, & Jose Tence Ruiz at The Drawing Room
Artists Jose Tence Ruiz, Pete Jimenez, and Dengcoy Miel collaborated on distilling the common threads of their individual practices. What the veteran artists arrive at is a unifying context in their early years where, as CLJ writes, “They [the artists] had things to say, topics to opine about, but at the same time–art to do.” Viewers are greeted by sculptural assemblages of antique objects laden with ornate religious embellishments, paintings steeped in references to wars, and shining steel panels are punctuated with bullet holes.
The exhibtion runs through November 7, 2026. For more information, please visit their website.
Signal, Sign, Shadow: Gary Ross-Pastrana at Silverlens Gallery
When you’re an artist with over two decades of practice, you’re bound to consider and dissect the fibers that make up your visual language. Gary Ross-Pastrana divides this exhibit into three, where the works mirror the syntax-yielding nature of collage through compositions of cut up fragments, pure paintings, and visceral achromatic arrangements.
The exhibition runs through November 13, 2026. For more information, please visit their website.
Soft, Incandescent Rage: Liv Vinluan at Silverlens Gallery
Painter Liv Vinluan shines a light into the domestic realm, where tropes of womanhood—like the the forbearing nurturing figure—prevail. Drawing from colonial history, Vinluan points to the West as the cause of the churning feminine rage, mirrored in her oeuvre. Through cleaved portraits, fractured columns, and calligraphic plays on botanical illustrations, the artist reclaims the performance-driven arena of the home.
The exhibition runs through November 13, 2026. For more information, please visit their website.
FamiLIAR: Dennis Bato at Vinyl on Vinyl
Artist Dennis Bato conjures memories in liminality through a series of paintings in FamiLIAR. Fabricated spaces are created through stark achromatic contracts laid out dramatically, the aim being to lull viewers into a “blank stare.”
The exhibition runs through October 31, 2026. For more information, please visit their Instagram.
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Highlights include The Grand Scheme of Things by Lindslee, Pears and Oranges by Jonathan Ching, The Aviary by Iya Regalario, Trichotomy (Three-Way Schizoid) by Pete Jimenez, Deng Coy Miel, and Jose Tence Ruiz, Signal, Sign, Shadow by Gary Ross-Pastrana, Soft, Incandescent Rage by Liv Vinluan, and FamiLIAR by Dennis Bato.
The exhibition is on view at Finale Art File through October 31, 2026. It features life-size trompe l’oeil sculptures built around exaggerated Filipino archetypes.
Silverlens is presenting Gary Ross-Pastrana’s Signal, Sign, Shadow and Liv Vinluan’s Soft, Incandescent Rage. Both exhibitions run through November 13, 2026.
The exhibition brings together veteran artists Pete Jimenez, Deng Coy Miel, and Jose Tence Ruiz, tracing shared concerns from their early practices through politically charged paintings, sculptural assemblages, religious imagery, and industrial materials.
Signal, Sign, Shadow by Gary Ross-Pastrana and Soft, Incandescent Rage by Liv Vinluan run through November 13, 2026, making them the latest-closing exhibitions on the list.