Wire Tuazon is a visual artist whose practice combines the hyperrealist, semiotic and the performative. Graduating with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1999, he became a founding member of the art collective Surrounded By Water, which set up independent artist-run spaces in Angono and later on in Manila in 2000. In 2001, Tuazon received a residency grant at the Ashiya City Museum of Art and History from the Japan Foundation Asia Center. In 2003, Tuazon was chosen as one of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ annual Thirteen Artist Awardees. He served as President of the Rizal-based Neo-Angono Artists Collective in addition to participating in numerous group exhibitions and public art performance festivals across the Philippines, Australia, Singapore, Japan, and Korea. He has held over 20 solo exhibitions namely Cave to Canvas (2012, Manila); A Poem of Fire (2011, Manila); Alleged Legend (2010, Beijing); Chance Imagery (2009, Kuala Lumpur); Authentic Hacienda (2006, Manila); Re-surface: The Damned Collages (2000, Manila); and When Everything Becomes Silent…I Jump, Dirty Room (1996, Manila) among others. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs internationally namely Multiple Languages, Curated by Leslie de Chavez & Louise Marcelino, Silverlens, Manila (2014); Summa Art Fair, Finale Art File Booth, Madrid (2013); Artriangle 3, National Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (2010) and more. He has recently participated in Art Stage Singapore 2015 showcasing a body of works consisting of large-scale oil paintings of photographic quality with arrows strewn across the floor of the booth and on the artworks.