Jon Cuyson is a Filipino interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, artist books, and film. For over two decades, he has explored intersections of identity, movement, labor, and ecological entanglement, often navigating the shifting boundaries between fact and fiction. In 2010, he founded Everyday Productions, a conceptual platform that operates as both laboratory and methodology for experimentation across art, cinema, and design. His projects are shaped by Memory Modules, interconnected works that act as partial archives for submerged histories, maritime labor, and fragments of belonging. More recently, he has developed Mussel Thinking, a framework where mussels serve as ecological collaborators and metaphors for filtration, sedimentation, and clustering. This methodology emphasizes porousness, care, and interdependence, extending his engagement with queer ecologies and wet ontologies. Cuyson constructs immersive environments that reimagine how memory, desire, and ecology interlace across personal and collective histories. His work often blurs distinctions between art and design, installation and scenography, fiction and document, producing spaces that are at once vulnerable and transformative. He earned his MFA in Painting from Columbia University, New York (2010) and is currently based in Manila, Philippines, where he continues to live and work. Jon Cuyson will officially represent the Philippines at the 61st International Art Exhibition , La Biennale di Venezia in May 2026.
Jon Cuyson is a Filipino interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, artist books, and film.
Biography
Jon Cuyson is a Filipino interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, artist books, and film. For over two decades, he has explored intersections of identity, movement, labor, and ecological entanglement, often navigating the shifting boundaries between fact and fiction. In 2010, he founded Everyday Productions, a conceptual platform that operates as both laboratory and methodology for experimentation across art, cinema, and design. His projects are shaped by Memory Modules, interconnected works that act as partial archives for submerged histories, maritime labor, and fragments of belonging. More recently, he has developed Mussel Thinking, a framework where mussels serve as ecological collaborators and metaphors for filtration, sedimentation, and clustering. This methodology emphasizes porousness, care, and interdependence, extending his engagement with queer ecologies and wet ontologies. Cuyson constructs immersive environments that reimagine how memory, desire, and ecology interlace across personal and collective histories. His work often blurs distinctions between art and design, installation and scenography, fiction and document, producing spaces that are at once vulnerable and transformative. He earned his MFA in Painting from Columbia University, New York (2010) and is currently based in Manila, Philippines, where he continues to live and work. Jon Cuyson will officially represent the Philippines at the 61st International Art Exhibition , La Biennale di Venezia in May 2026.