Bianca Marquez is a Filipino-American mixed media artist whose work explores themes of cultural memory, identity, and ancestral connection. Her practice often blends drawing, collage, and installation, using domestic objects and architectural motifs to evoke the layered histories of Filipino homes and diasporic experience.
One of her featured works, The White House, draws inspiration from her father’s ancestral home in Baliuag, Bulacan. Through detailed renderings of heirloom rattan chairs, capiz shell windows, and other vernacular elements, Marquez captures the emotional resonance of place—where memory and material culture intersect. Her artist statement reflects a deep engagement with postcolonial theory, particularly Edouard Glissant’s ideas on identity as shaped by movement, migration, and contact.
Marquez has exhibited in community-based platforms such as the Kultura Filipino Arts Festival in Toronto, where her work was showcased alongside other Filipinx artists. Her visual language is poetic and grounded, often inviting viewers to reflect on what remains—emotionally and materially—after displacement or change.
