Romson Bustillo
Innovation in Image Resident
Romson Bustillo is a printmaker. The work is interdisciplinary, incorporating research, works on paper, installations, and interventions. Bustillo makes art to claim presence, to revisit truths, and to break constructed designations of place.
Over two decades, Bustillo has worked in a diverse range of printmaking, including collagraphs, lithographs, intaglios, monotypes, pochoirs, serigraphs, reliefs, and experimental techniques. What distinguishes the work is the intentional fusion of these prints, constructed from matrices made of found metals, wood, mat boards, screens, fabrics, and other repurposed material, into both distinct artworks and essential components of mixed media pieces, installations, and interventions.
Born in the Philippines, Bustillo is a Seattle based artist, who has traveled to countries in SE Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Africa to further artistic and cultural growth. Bustillo was awarded the Seattle Print Arts Larry Sommers Art Fellowship in 2016. In 2017, the co-recipient of the Garboil Grant. An award that considers artists “…engaging audiences outside the aesthetic industrial complex.” The 2019 Artist Trust Fellowship and 2021 Artist Trust Artist Innovator Award. The 2022 Northwest Film Forum Collective Power Fund Award in the "New Work/Projects" category.
Bustillo has taught printmaking and interdisciplinary art for over 25 years including at Pratt Fine Arts Center and as a Lecturer for the University of Washington.
