Dee Jae Paeste

Dee Jae Pa’este was built and programmed in the Silicon Valley’s San Jose, CA. Born to an Irish-Polynesian mother
and a Filipino father, family and culture have always been rooted in his art and lifestyle. He has relocated to Manila,
Philippines after spending time living in Japan and New York working in the art and fashion world. 

Influenced by a wide number of sources, Dee Jae’s artwork is both personal and universal. Stylistically, Dee Jae owes quite a bit to the graffiti scene and his peers in the tattoo world. His work has a strong, graphic sensibility, and consists of powerful, primary colors and bold, thick lines
reminiscent of microchip circuitry and Polynesian/Filipino tribal tattoos.
In order to convey his vision, Dee Jae dabbles with a wide variety of media, but most often finds himself comfortable
with acrylic paints and spray cans. He likes the immediacy of it because it reflects the fast paced world around him.
Building within the underground art community in the places he has traveled, Dee Jae often finds himself doing Live
Paintings in random venues surrounded by sound, chaos, and crowds of onlookers. Dee Jae is a man of the
community, since coming home to the Philippines he has started many endeavors that have helped highlight the
local food and art scene and also events that bring people together, from his event and consulting group MANILA
POP UP, to his Starving Artist Food tours and gatherings. He is also a co-founder of KAPWA Studio in Poblacion
Makati, a space that acts as a creative platform for fellow artists and people of the community to share their
crafts, vision and also a place of transformation.
His work has appeared in a number of venues, galleries, & murals from New York, Los Angeles, Philippines, Singapore,
Hong Kong, San Francisco, Hawaii, and Japan.
With all the possibilities of change and experience in an evolving world, Dee Jae plans to spend the rest of his days
painting, traveling, creating and eating his way through it. He is looking forward to the time he will reside in Manila
looking to dig deeper into his cultural roots. Dee Jae hopes to spread his art and share his creativity with the people
that inhabit it and to leave behind his art so that it may resonate around each place he visits, when his time there
ends.