Donostia–San Sebastian, Spain – November 2025 – Filipino-born painter and writer Patricia Kyle Mendoza, who resides in Spain, will introduce her inaugural Basque show during the fourth quarter of 2025. With her acrylic works done with watercolor-like transparency, Mendoza produces layered abstractions that move through memory, identity, migration, and the unseen turbulence of modern life.
Early Recognition and First Exhibition in Cebu
Mendoza initially made a name for herself in 2007 with her solo show Fragments at Mooon Café, Cebu City. Her initial work brought out her narrative-infused style of image creation, responsive to the vulnerable endurance of memory and narrative told through form. Her subsequent creative path has been far from a straight line. Aside from painting, Mendoza worked in various capacities in design, construction, cultural management, education, and writing that honed her operational abilities and expanded her knowledge on how creative ecosystems survive. She refined her skills at the award-winning Kenneth Cobonpue design studio, co-directed Cebu’s cultural infrastructure at MATIC Hub, and was chosen as a fellow of the British Council Creative Innovators Programme to link Philippine hubs with overseas partners.
Painting as the Anchor
Even with these varied professional endeavors, painting has remained her anchor. Mendoza’s distinctive mark unites gestural brushwork and line, constructing surfaces upon which opacity and transparency inhale and exhale. Her canvases, wrote critics, are meditative and restless, presenting a visual language that whispers secrets about memory and the quiet tempests of contemporary life. Her paint colors usually include cobalt and gold accents, which act as emotional cues of tension and release instead of visually appealing options.
A Timeline of Exhibitions and Artistic Development
Her body of work shows a consistent growth. Standouts include Fortuna Circuit at 856G Gallery in 2017 as part of the multi-venue project Zeitgeist: Art, Current Condition; 2020TOO in 2022, a Cebu–Manila joint show with British Council fellows reacting to surviving the pandemic; and Hangry & Winemedicated in early 2025 at The Wine Club, Makati. That exhibition included powerful canvases like Night Cap, Woman from 2020, Finance Team Alignment Meeting, Ibuprofen, and Be the Problem, condensing the push-pull of contemporary exhaustion into poetic abstraction.
Donostia Exhibition: Migration and Reinvention
Her next Donostia exhibition will present an entirely new body of work influenced by migration and reinvention. There is no promise of closure here; rather, the paintings mark emotion sincerely. Lines contain and then begin to break; surfaces are quiet and then explode; color moves from whisper to flame. Each canvas invites us in, urging us to lean in and remain in what cannot be tidily resolved.
Artist Statement regarding Turbulence and Negotiation
“I paint the negotiations where we live, between control and drift, certainty and collapse,” says Mendoza. “Migration, reinvention, the burdens that become blessings: these are not abstract concepts to me; they are living conditions. In Donostia, I’m not offering closure. The canvases lean forward and ask you to do the same, come close, stay with the turbulence, and see what remains.”
Digital Presence and Artistic Process
In addition to her paintings, Mendoza’s digital presence is spread out deliberately. She keeps older project archives on Coroflot, an old DeviantArt account, and a Linktree that centralizes recent catalogs and press mentions. This reflects her artistic approach to prioritizing process and experimentation rather than slick self- mythology.
Exhibition Details
Patricia Kyle Mendoza’s Donostia–San Sebastian debut will open later in 2025. High-resolution press photos and artist portraits can be requested.
About Patricia Kyle Mendoza
Patricia Kyle Mendoza is a Philippine-born painter and prose-maker based in Donostia–San Sebastian. Using mainly acrylic paint applied with watercolor-like thinness, her paintings investigate memory, migration, and the inner states of contemporary life. Following her first show Fragments in 2007, she has had work shown in high-profile exhibitions like Fortuna Circuit (2017), 2020TOO (2022), and Hangry & Winemedicated (2025). Aside from painting, she has also worked on cultural leadership projects such as with MATIC Hub and the British Council Creative Innovators Programme. Her cross-disciplinary studies influence her unique visual language of gesture and structure in conflict. Learn more at patriciakylemendoza.com.
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