KDLIG

Born in Manolo Fortich Bukidnon on October 3, 1982.

Raised in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

Kristy had already shown her talent at a very young age. Started entering painting workshops during her summer vacations in her high school years, to enhance her abilities and skills.

Studied Fine Arts at the University of San Carlos in Cebu City, Philippines, where she majored in Advertising Arts, and graduated in the year 2004.

Her previous jobs include Picture Book Designer at Xlibris Philippines, an American publishing company base in Cebu. After that she worked as a Graphic Designer at Studio 7, a local Advertising Agency also base in Cebu City.

She previously worked on her own as a freelancer, right now she's currently working as an Illustrator for Young and Rubicam Dubai.

Her personal works are inspired by Surrealism, Urban, Graffiti and Low-Brow art, mostly focused in digital, though from time to time, she still does traditional art like pen and ink, oil and acrylic painting.

She won an international online shirt design competition at threadless that made a mark for her to establish a name in the world of Graphic and shirt designing in the online art community.

She's been featured on various art blogs and websites, books and magazines and some group art exhibits.

She still continues to learn and develop her skills and still is gaining more exposure through satisfied clients and art appreciators in the Philippines and as well as the other parts of the world.

*** ART EXHIBITS ***

Perfect On Paper 2 (Cebu City Philippines) 2008

Perfect On Paper 3 (Cebu City Philippines) 2009

TubodFest (Cebu City Philippines) 2009

Girlaloo (Cebu City Philippines) 2009

WWA Gallery Presents: "The Devil Made Me Do It" (Culver City CA. USA) February 2010

MEGA Vinyl DIY toy exhibit ( Dubai UAE) 2010

BAETULONA Project (Barcelona Spain) 2010

SILIPAN RINIGAN : Arts and Music Fest3 (Manila, Philippines) 2010

NIKE All for One, Trainer 1.2 exhibit (Niketown, New York USA) 2010

Philips Senso Touch 3D razor exhibit (Armani hotel, Dubai UAE) 2010

The Worlds Together exhibit (Marsam Mattar Gallery, Dubai, UAE) 2011

3KEEZ Illustration Exhibit (American University of Dubai, Dubai UAE) 2011

SNEAKER SUMMIT DBX (JamJar Dubai, UAE) 2011

Ninh Nguyen Autum/Winter Collection - Artists collaboration (Michelson Studio: 163 Bank St., New York, USA) 2011

FILL IN THE GROOVE Vinyl Record Show 3 (Tempe, Arizona USA) 2011

The Sketchbook Project 2011 (The Brooklyn Art Library, New York) 2011

Inday Art Exhibit (Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines) 2011

EXPO FOR MATTIA (Italy) 2011

*** PARTICIPANTED ***

Visual -Digital Conference 2009 (Cebu City, Philippines) - Speaker

TEDx Dubai 2010: REBOOT (on the spot artist for MEGA vinyl DIY toy customization)

*** FEATURED IN PRINT ***

Graphika Manila book 2009

ROGUE Magazine November 2009 (The Art Issue) : Top 16 Illustrators

Cebu Daily News (CDN) for the Girlaloo Exhibit 2009

Chakota Mag Feature

TimeOut Dubai 2010

AMOR Magazine (Dubai) 2010

PANORAMA Magazine (Dubai) 2011

The Threadless Sketchbook

Threadless book

*** INTERVIEWS ***

(Click below to view interviews)

Unedited Interview by Rogue Magazine

ArtstProjekt Artist Interview

Sereh & Cengkeh Interview

Threadless Interview

Gulfnews feature and short interview

National Video Interview

FERDINAND Center for the Creative Interview

Satellite Voices Interview

*** FEATURED ONLINE ***

Digital Abstracts

The Curious Brain

*** KDLIG WEBSITE FEATURE ***

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