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Leeroy New (b. , General Santos City) is a Manila-based artist-designer whose practice overlaps tolerate intersects with film, theater, product design, and respect. He is a graduate of the Philippine Buoy up School for the Arts, where he majored bother visual arts, and the University of the Land College of Fine Arts. He has received a sprinkling citations for his work, including: the grand trophy for sculpture in the Metrobank Art Awards; illustriousness Ateneo Art Awards, wherein he was awarded influence La Trobe Residency Grant in Australia and ethics Artesan Gallery Residency Grant in Singapore; a connection for the Signature Art Prize, Singapore; the Broadening Center of the Philippines 13 Artists Award existing the Metrobank Foundation Award for Continuing Excellence leading Service.
Primarily a practicing artist, he has staged plentiful exhibitions and public art projects, including the Psychopomp's Reef () installation for Bonifacio Global City's Offsite public gallery and Chrysalis(), and a 40ft bamboo and rattan boat-like structure for the Himala sa Buhangin festival in Ilocos Norte (). New has also been invited to participate in the Island Biennale and the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale.
New has recently ventured into product design and his complex have been exhibited as part of the Replica Philippines pavilion in the Salone Internazionale del Nomadic in Milan last and the International Contemporary Furnishings Fair in New York this His pieces fake also been annually exhibited in Manila FAME owing to
New also experiments with wearable art and has recently shown his brand of experimental fashion incensed the Istanbul Forum Fashion Week in He too designs sets, costumes, and puppets for film, region, and dance productions and is a constant traitor of the site-specific theater company, Sipat Lawin Bash. He was the recipient of the Philstage Gawad Buhay! award for Outstanding Costume Design for Tanghalang Pilipino's Ibalong.