REVILL VILLANUEVA (b. 2000 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) is a contemporary Filipino-Canadian visual artist based from Toronto, Canada. His work explores the concepts of immigration, ancestorship, futurity, identity, imagined technologies, and dystopian worlds. His work synthesizes traditional Filipino semiotics and futuristic aesthetics from contemporary science-fiction to convey his personal narratives as a Filipino-diaspora artist and as an immigrant living in Canada. He has exhibited works with the Art Gallery of York University, Gallery 1313, Gales Gallery, and Special Projects Gallery in Toronto.

Villanueva holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in Visual Arts (Studio) from York University. He was the recipient of Art Gallery of York University Student Art Award (2023), Worrall Family Artist of Tomorrow Award (2023), Dean’s Purchase Award (2022), Willowdale Group of Artists Painting Award (2022), G44 Photography Award (2022), and Art History Honorarium Award (2022) at York University’s Visual Arts and Art History Open House.

revillvvillanueva@gmail.com