Norberto Roldan currently lives and works in Manila, Philippines. He studied fine arts, majoring in visual communications, at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila; and also holds a masters degree in Art Studies from the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Besides being artistic director of Green Papaya Art Projects, an alternative multi-disciplinary platform he co-founded in 2000 with Donna Miranda, he is also the co-founder of the Black Artists of Asia, an artist group based in Bacolod City (Visayas Islands). His works have been exhibited extensively across Asia, Japan, North America and Australia. In 1998, he received the prestigious Philip Morris Asean Art Award. His works are currently in the collection of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum and Singapore Art Museum amongst others.