Bong Ants

Bong Ants，He is currently the Foreign Investment Director of Yingke Matrix.

He specializes in company formation in China, investment and financial services and other related legal matters since 2014. He’s be living in Xiamen since December 2006.

He is the winner of the first MTS Home Away from Home Essay Competition in 2021. He is also awarded as JQTV’s Artist of the Year, and won other accolades for his community service, logo design, photography, paintings and environmentrelated sculptures.

He is an artist of the Nordic Contemporary Art Center and ASEAN Art Center since 2020. In collaboration with artists Yatao Zhang and Uwe Schall, they have created “The Lost Fish Project” – a collection of sculptures made of recycled materials for the Xiatanwei Wetland Park. He is honored to be a part of the “Horses” and “Dream of Blue” group exhibitions which won awards from the Xiamen government. His work is also displayed at Tallbacken Art Center in
Sweden.

In cooperation with Dr. Evelyn Cabanban of Tawid Publications, Bong has illustrated books about Philippine music from different regions of the Philippines and Kundiman sons. The books are currently in the archives of the National Library of the Philippines and Frankfurt University in Germany.

He is an active volunteer of the Filipino and expats community in Xiamen and Gulangyu promoting arts and cultural endeavors.

In Bong Ants’ digital tribute, “THE QUEEN’S HORSES,” a pair of majestic steeds stand in harmonious silence. Rendered in a palette of subtle earth hues and gilded light, their forms are both powerfully solid and ethereally soft, as if emerging from a dream of perfect grace. This piece, created with deep affection for curator Ms. Lanlan, transforms the horses into symbols of guided strength and elegant vision—a reflection of her nurturing role in the artist’s journey.

The medium is part of its message: printed on the textured soul of special paper and wood, then framed in warm gold, the work is a physical testament to gratitude. It is not merely an image, but a crafted object of respect, meant to endure and honor the queenly stewardship that helps art, and artists, run free.