JAY TICAR is an independent visual artist. He finished Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of the Philippines, and finished Master of Fine Arts at Tama Art University in Tokyo through the auspices of the Monbukagakusho Scholarship Grant. He was bestowed the Asian Public Intellectual Fellowship Grant for year 2007- 2008. In his fellowship period he conducted an art research project in Tokyo and Indonesia, about visual artists involved with non- art livelihood as models for the artist’s image in society. As an artist, Jay Ticar applies contemporary approaches in his use of traditional and non-traditional media to produce paintings, objects and installation art. He has been exhibiting since 1995, in very respectable institutions and venues of art in the Philippines and abroad.