EXHIBITION NOTES

Mai Rivera Secuban started in the arts industry for more than a decade now. Her main medium is oil and tried watercolor 4 years ago. Started with school art competitions and early art exposure as a self-taught artist, she trained herself to different mediums and involved herself to different art festivals and congresses which backed her up and gained respect and recognition from other artists.

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Mai's works are influenced by Carl Jung’s “Self” theory as she graduated in college with a degree in Psychology in Mindanao State University- Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan City. The context of her works adheres to the creation of the human soul and its connections to the environment. Her works are transient of the human ecopsychology through usage of symbols and figures and well-studied human anatomy. Thru her art, she explores the human psyche and existence.  Her works are known as conceptual figurative realism in a precise and delicate control of her mediums, watercolor and oil.

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In 2017 she was the lone representative of the Philippines at the ASYAAF Festival and Art Exhibition selected by the ASEAN-Korea Centre and endorsed by NCCA. She is currently based in Cebu and is a member of the Portrait Artist Society of the Philippines Cebu Chapter and Dibuho.