David Medalla

David Medalla was born in 1938 in Manila, and he currently lives and works between Berlin, London and New York. His artistic career began when he was aged 12 when he was admitted as a special student at Colombia University in New York upon the recommendation of American poet Mark van Doren. When he moved to New York he met the actor James Dean and  the Filipino poet José Garcia Villa, who encouraged Medalla’s early interest in paintings. He is renowned for his artistic research and practice in the Kinetic Art, Land Art, participatory art and live art.