Donostia–San Sebastian, Spain – November 2025 – Patricia Kyle Mendoza, a Cebu-born painter and prose-maker now based in Spain, will unveil her first Basque exhibition in the fourth quarter of 2025. Known for her acrylic paintings applied with watercolor-like fluidity, Mendoza creates layered abstractions that navigate memory, identity, migration, and the hidden turbulence of contemporary life.
Mendoza first gained recognition in 2007 with her solo exhibition Fragments at Mooon Café in Cebu City. That debut introduced her narrative-inflected approach to image-making, attentive to the fragile persistence of memory and storytelling through visual form. Her creative journey since has been far from linear. In addition to painting, Mendoza has worked across design, construction, cultural management, education, and writing—roles that sharpened her operational skills and broadened her understanding of how creative ecosystems thrive. She honed her craft in the acclaimed Kenneth Cobonpue design studio, helped lead Cebu’s cultural infrastructure through MATIC Hub, and was selected as a British Council Creative Innovators Programme fellow, connecting Philippine hubs with international partners.
Despite these diverse professional roles, painting has always remained her anchor. Mendoza’s signature style combines gestural brushwork and linear elements, building surfaces where opacity and transparency breathe in and out. Critics have described her canvases as meditative yet restless, offering a visual language that whispers truths about memory and the quiet storms of modern existence. Her color palettes often feature cobalt tones and gold highlights, which serve as emotional markers of pressure and relief rather than mere aesthetic choices.
Her exhibition history reflects a steady evolution. Highlights include Fortuna Circuit at 856G Gallery in 2017, part of the multi-venue project Zeitgeist: Art, Current Condition; 2020TOO in 2022, a Cebu–Manila collaborative exhibition with British Council fellows responding to pandemic survival; and Hangry & Winemedicated in early 2025 at The Wine Club, Makati. That show featured striking canvases such as Night Cap, Woman from 2020, Finance Team Alignment Meeting, Ibuprofen, and Be the Problem, translating the push-pull of modern exhaustion into poetic abstraction.
Her upcoming Donostia exhibition will showcase a completely new body of work shaped by migration and reinvention. These paintings do not promise closure; instead, they register emotion honestly. Lines hold and then fray; surfaces appear calm and then rupture; color shifts from whisper to blaze. Each canvas leans forward, asking viewers to come close and linger in what cannot be neatly resolved.
“I paint the negotiations we live through—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 lived 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.”
Beyond her paintings, Mendoza’s digital presence is intentionally dispersed. She maintains older project archives on Coroflot, a long-standing DeviantArt profile, and a Linktree that gathers recent catalogs and press features. This mirrors her artistic ethos of privileging process and experimentation over polished self-mythology.
Exhibition Details:
Patricia Kyle Mendoza’s Donostia–San Sebastian debut will open by the end of 2025. High-resolution press images and artist portraits are available upon request.
About Patricia Kyle Mendoza
Patricia Kyle Mendoza is a painter and prose-maker originally from Cebu City, Philippines, now based in Donostia–San Sebastian. Working primarily with acrylics applied with watercolor-like transparency, her art explores memory, migration, and the emotional landscapes of modern life. Since her debut exhibition Fragments in 2007, she has exhibited in notable shows such as Fortuna Circuit (2017), 2020TOO (2022), and Hangry & Winemedicated (2025). Outside of painting, she has contributed to cultural leadership initiatives, including work with MATIC Hub and the British Council Creative Innovators Programme. Her interdisciplinary background informs her distinctive visual language of gesture and structure in collision. For more information, visit patriciakylemendoza.com.
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