Kankan

Passion, profession and motherhood. Three seemingly non-related words, but make up the DNA of Kankan. Kankan Ramos was born in Manila, Philippines. Early in her life, she was exposed to art through summer workshops and instantly fell in love with the craft. She pursued her passion in her studies, immersing herself in an education system that would allow her to develop her skills.

The art of Kankan Ramos is a colored testament to the inner world, molded from undulations of life and circumstances. Her works draw from personal experiences and feelings within. Each face, each vista, gives form to the emotions and realizations that have impacted her journey and variegated her being. Kankan uses art as a means to explore identity, relations, and metamorphosis of the self with an approach grounded in observation and experimentation. Stroke by stroke, she produces a layering of insights and experiences that accrue on the canvas as they have on her soul.