Born in the Philippines, Romson Regarde Bustillo is a Seattle based artist. His layered artworks and collaborations are tied to his Philippine/SE Asian lineage, Pacific Northwest upbringing, and extensive research travels. Carving his own path, Regarde Bustillo integrates an interdisciplinary practice with a printmaking foundation. He makes art to claim presence, to revisit truths, and to break constructed designations of place.

Regarde Bustillo was awarded the Seattle Print Arts Larry Sommers Art Fellowship in 2016. In 2017 he was recipient of the Garboil Grant, an award that considers artists “…engaging audiences outside the aesthetic industrial complex.” He received Arts-Individual Projects Grants from 4Culture in 2020, and in 2024 in support of his installations and collaborative interventions. He is the recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship (2019) and the Artist Trust Artist Innovator Award (2021). He received a Northwest Film Forum/Andy Warhol Foundation Collective Power Fund Award in 2022 in "New Work Projects" category.

Regarde Bustillo has taught at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle and as a visiting lecturer for the University of Washington’s Interdisciplinary Visual Art program.

Bustillo is represented by J.Rinehart Gallery.

@romsonbustillo