Gromyko Semper

Gromyko Padilla Semper (b. 1986) is a self-taught artist who spent his early years studying art in libraries in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija. In addition to learning about the canons of art history, he was exposed in these libraries to the works of great poets, philosophers, thinkers, and writers, the likes of William Blake, Dante Alighieri, Edgar Allan Poe, Sigmund Freud, and even occult scholars of the mystical arts. Since then, Semper’s creative access to curiosities, worldly and otherworldly, has led to a number of exhibitions in galleries and museums in the Philippines, Singapore, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Austria, Mexico, the United States, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. With the artist’s spanning a wide range of creative imaginings, Semper was recently announced as one of 1,500 artists and writers whose works will be sent on a time capsule to the moon by NASA, a testament to his galaxy of ruminations, literally from Cabanatuan to the moon.