Clarissa Bañez

ABOUT

Clarissa Bañez is a Filipino oil painter and printmaker based in Prague. Her work moves between realism and abstraction, exploring the tension between control and surrender, discipline and softness. Grounded in close observation and traditional, archival processes, her practice reflects on home, belonging, and the emotional weight of domestic spaces. Across painting and relief printmaking, she creates quiet, handcrafted images intended to live in everyday homes—offering moments of stillness, reflection, and presence.


EDUCATION & TRAINING

  • 2024–present
  • -Výtvarný Ateliér Malování Kreslení, Prague — under Adrian T. Bell
  • -New Masters Academy
  • 2006–2013
  • -BS Basic Medical Sciences & Doctor of Medicine, University of the Philippines, Manila

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025
  • -PAINTER'S MARKET, Místečko, Prague, Czech Republic
  • -MÁSEN MÁNES, Galerie Mánes, Prague, Czech Republic
  • -15.LET, Malování Kreslení, Prague, Czech Republic

RESIDENCIES & PRESS

  • 2025
    -Artist Residency in Motherhood, Prague, Czech Republic
    -Student Spotlight, New Masters Academy