Adeodatus Sta Juana

Adeo is a visual artist exhibiting paintings and sculptures. His subject matters include everyday realities and objects to which he applies abstraction and/or impressionism, instead of depicting factual likeness, to intensify their inherent narratives and create shifts in the imagination.

He received from Baliwag, Bulacan, the Outstanding Citizen Award in Visual Arts in 2019. In 2023, he became a semi-finalist in the portrait competition of the Asian Contemporary Art Gallery in Singapore. The previous year, he was a National Finalist for sculpture at the Metrobank Art and Design Excellence (MADE) Competition.

He mounted his first solo exhibit, Met with Light, at Altromondo Arte Contemporanea Creative Space in Makati City. Some of his group and 2-person shows are O2O Art, Greenbelt 5 Gallery / o2oart.ph, 2020; Connect with your Heart, Sampayan Art Exhibit, Pinto Art Museum, 2020; Tanaw: Bagong Henerasyon ng Talento, Pambayang Museo ng Baliwag, 2019; 14th Annual Sculpture Review, Art Center SM Megamall, 2018; Karapatan: Artists Stand for Human Rights, NCCA Gallery, 2017; Marked Territories, Boston Gallery, 2016; Only in the Philippines, UP Vargas Museum, 2015; Art Fair Philippines, Altromondo Arte Contemporanea Gallery, 2013; and [un]break, Art Informal Gallery, 2011.

Adeo graduated with the best thesis and cum laude honors in Painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in Diliman.

He currently lives with his wife and young daughter in Quezon City, where he also explores linear perspective projection in his art.