Norberto Roldan (b. 1953, Roxas City, Philippines) founded the Black Artists in Asia in 1986 and the Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference (VIVA ExCon) in 1990 both in Bacolod City. He was VIVA ExCon’s artistic director in 1990, 1992, and 2018. He also co-founded Green Papaya Art Projects in 2000 and has remained its artistic director until today.

Roldan is a practicing visual artist and is represented in several landmark surveys like New Art from Southeast Asia, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (1992), No Country: Contemporary Art for South/Southeast Asia, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum (2012); Between Declarations
& Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia Since the 19th Century, National Gallery Singapore (2015); SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, National Art Centre Tokyo and Mori Art Museum (2017); and, Passion and Procession: Art of the Philippines, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2017).

Roldan recently moved his practice to Roxas City where he manages the projects of Green Papaya, among them the ongoing Shri Vishayas project. Shri Vishayas is a platform for the intersections of indigenous, rural, and contemporary cultures, and is a program of VIVA ExCon Antique 2022-2023.