Florencio Yllana was born in 1977 in the city of Manila, in the Island of Luzon, Phillipines. He began to paint and draw at an early age, and was influenced by his constant exposure to museums of all themes.

He moved to the United States and found an explosion of ideas and moments that further inspired him in his artistic path. In 1995 his studies brought him to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and participated actively in its artistic movements. There he found the expressionists, the symbolists and decadents and the contemporaries which further inspired him to continue the lineage of art.

In 1998 he took up residence in Boston, intensifying his activities in art. In addition to painting he also dabbled in illustrating, sculpture, photography and drawing all highly influenced by his love for travel which included much of Europe. He was also very active in the poetry scene in Boston contributing to various groups such as BLACKOUT Boston, The Lizard Lounge, and even hosted his own jazz and poetry venue at the house of Blues.

He began exhibiting locally and after his first exhibition 2002 he began to live in Paris where he continues to return from time to time. Florencio currently lives between the U.S., Brazil, and Europe constantly engaged in the artists path and the creative proccess. His works grace the various walls of homes across the globe.
 
 

Former Biography

Florencio Yllana was born on the year of the serpent under the dragon moon. He left the Phillipines at the height of the people's revolution in the year 1986. He lived under political asylum in the heart of the midwest where he first flowered as a writer and a painter.

He had left Ohio to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago until he was released from the university because he was caught in the throes of a frightful mania. Or was it the manifistation of godhead?

Regardless, his demigougish tendencies, and his penchance for making other people hear voices, starting revolutions, and instigating warfare among tribal factions grew to such a fanatical level that he literally needed to take a timeout for a year. He rose in Boston after wandering the American landscape and harnessed the mania and soon grew notoriety among the masses for dropping lyrical bombs then vanishing Kaiser Sose' style.

His colors grew in a fervent pace and soon was known as a painter of the phantasmagoric and romantic. He had 3 exhibitions, played with fire a lot, loved fiercely left for Paris to find truth and live the cliche'. .

He plans to die an old man watching a sunset in Bhutan or something like that, with his one true love, after living a thousand lifetimes, and having herald in a new era of grace...