Chati Coronel

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Bio

Chati Coronel (b. 1970, Manila; lives and works in Toronto) is a painter whose three-decade practice probes the liminal territory between body and cosmos through a method she calls Figurative Spatialism. Layering atmospheric fields of colour within human silhouettes, Coronel treats the figure as a vessel through which metaphysical forces materialise.

Her work has been the subject of sixteen solo exhibitions and has appeared at Art Basel Hong Kong, Frieze Seoul, and The Armory Show, New York. Coronel’s paintings are held in private and corporate collections across Asia and North America. Guided by cosmological inquiry,

she wields painting to recast primal myth as a blueprint for possible futures.

Chati Coronel (b. 1970, Manila; lives and works in Toronto) is a painter whose three-decade practice probes the liminal territory between body and cosmos through a method she calls Figurative Spatialism. Layering atmospheric fields of colour within human silhouettes, Coronel treats the figure as a vessel through which metaphysical forces materialise.

Her work has been the subject of sixteen solo exhibitions and has appeared at Art Basel Hong Kong, Frieze Seoul, and The Armory Show, New York. Coronel’s paintings are held in private and corporate collections across Asia and North America. Guided by cosmological inquiry,

she wields painting to recast primal myth as a blueprint for possible futures.

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Inner Constellation: 7:30PM
2021
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Hard Sky Soft Glisten
2021
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acrylic on canvas
36h x 48w in • 91.44h x 121.92w cm
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Mercury/Hermes: Wilful Devotion
2021
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acrylic on canvas
60h x 48w in • 152.40h x 121.92w cm
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Sun/Apollo: True Light
2020
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60h x 84w in • 152.40h x 213.36w cm
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Shero
2020
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48h x 36w in • 121.92h x 91.44w cm
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BE THE: Free 0103
2020
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30h x 22w in • 76.20h x 55.88w cm
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Elbow
2013
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acrylic on canvas
60h x 96w in • 152.40h x 243.84w cm (diptych),
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The Knitters
2010
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acrylic on canvas
60h x 108w in • 152.4h x 274.32w cm (diptych)
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A Kiss is Also a Map
2014
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47.99h x 60w in • 121.90h x 152.40w cm
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Yes, Skin Acrobat: Something Good is Happening Here (And Somewhere Else)
2011
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acrylic and leather on wood
72h x 48w in • 182.88h x 121.92w cm
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Vanilla
2012
632
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72h x 48w in • 182.88h x 121.92w cm
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Your Bones Remember the Feeling of Having Wings
2015
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22 x 15 in • 55.9 x 38.1 cm
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Intertwined Islands
2016
637
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acrylic on canvas
60h x 84w in • 152.40h x 213.36w cm
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Leda and the Swan
2017
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acrylic on canvas
72h x 120w in • 182.88h x 304.8w cm (diptych)
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Dripping Divine
2016
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84h x 60w in • 213.36h x 152.40w cm
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Radiant Matter
2018
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acrylic on canvas
64h x 80w in • 162.56h x 203.20w cm
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Green Victory
2016
642
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acrylic on canvas
72h x 60w in • 182.88h x 152.40w cm
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Future Resplendent,
2018
640
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84h x 60w in • 213.36h x 152.40w cm
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Yesses Give Birth to Yesses
2017
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acrylic on canvas
72h x 120w in • 182.88h x 304.80w cm
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Prometheus
2020
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Selected Exhibitions

NEW YORK
07 September - 10 September 2023
The Armory Show 2023
Booth 212, Javits Center, 429 11th Avenue, New York
Silverlens will participate in The Armory Show with a group presentation of works by James Clar, Chati Coronel, Nicole Coson, Mit Jai Inn, Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo, and Leo Valledor.
SEOUL
06 September - 09 September 2023
Frieze Seoul 2023
Booth A24, Frieze Main, COEX, Gangnam District, Seoul
Silverlens is pleased to present four established artists from Southeast Asia for the second edition of Frieze Seoul: Pacita Abad, James Clar, Chati Coronel, and Mit Jai Inn. With an assemblage of colors, textures, and new media, each work in this exhibition shows a facet of the human condition informed by each artists’ personal experiences.
NEW YORK
22 June - 19 August 2023
Shrines
Silverlens, New York
Embodied contexts of diaspora, itinerancy, and retreat mark the artists here in ‘Shrines.’ Their works are poignant approaches to identity, where experiences with the body (here being the artists’ subjectivity and the artworks) engender the translation of belief systems that also ensoul distinct realms of personal history.
MANILA
22 February - 10 March 2022
Inner Constellations
Silverlens Online Viewing Room
Inner Constellations was borne out of a longing for change. The process of creating layers within a painting has always been a way for me to let go of precious ideas, but I wanted to do this in a bigger way. I needed a whole change of thinking. It wasn’t just about creating transitions within a painting. Each painting marks a stage, a point of departure to the next. The motion of change happens in the space between the paintings. Just like music happens in the space between the notes.
MANILA
31 July - 28 August 2021
Celestial Data for Daydreaming
Silverlens, Manila
In “Celestial Data for Daydreaming”, Chati Coronel engages her curiosity and passion for cosmology to explore the ephemeral and the eternal. Each piece is titled after one of the seven classical planets of ancient Greece. While she worked on this series, she listened to a playlist that moved her to ponder the skies and our place in the world.
MANILA
20 November - 30 November 2020
BE THE_
Silverlens Online Viewing Room
Featuring five sets of linocut prints, 'BE THE_' was inspired by the famous words uttered by Mahatma Gandhi, ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world.’
MANILA
17 February - 17 March 2018
The Infinite Yes
Silverlens, Manila
In this series of large new works, Chati Coronel has assembled a suite of vibrantly colored panels that reference creation myths from around the world and their recognizable leitmotifs: first woman and man; contact with the human and the divine; order out of chaos.
MANILA
04 June - 02 July 2016
The Way In/The Way Out
Silverlens, Manila
Chati Coronel's fascination with human consciousness, in all its myriad permutations and implications, has been a sort of thematic bedrock that buttresses everything she does, both her terra firma and her terra incognita. But 'The Way In/ The Way Out' is probably her most overt exploration.
SINGAPORE
20 June - 27 July 2014
The First Kiss on Earth
Silverlens, Singapore
In 'The First Kiss on Earth', Chati Coronel traces her subject back to its primordial origins, imagining the kiss in a time before language and attempting to frame this crucial moment of union before it was, or ever could be, set down in words.
MANILA
05 June - 06 July 2013
UnPortraits
Silverlens, Manila
There is an absence of ego in 'UnPortraits'. The large canvases feel physically close and intimate, yet Chati Coronel has managed to leave out the sex and circus that so much of today's art now offers to an audience bent on short-lived frissons of excitement.
MANILA
28 June - 21 July 2012
SkinSkin
Silverlens, Manila
The figures in SkinSkin stand out, stark and naked against plain bright backgrounds that drip onto their bodies. But Chati Coronel turns the body into a second canvas, reminding us that our physical experiences are written on skin.
MANILA
01 September - 25 September 2010
An Hour in a Glass Balloon
Silverlens, Manila
'An Hour in a Glass Balloon' reveals a whimsical and magical world, which Chati Coronel explains as a world that “usually doesn’t get celebrated in art.” In her large-scale oil paintings she uses the woman as her focal point, revealing the duality of their strength and softness with bulbous, organic shapes.

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