Pacita Abad is as colorful and fantastically vibrant as her works. From her birthplace in Batanes, Pacita's incessant travels around the world over the past 25 years have exposed her to rich cultures that have in turn significantly impacted her artistic style and diverse range imagery.

Pacita has had numerous solo exhibitions at museums and galleries in the USA, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She has also participated in more than 50 group and traveling exhibitions throughout the world. Pacita's work is in public, corporate and private art collections in over 40 countries. Some of her public collections include: The Singapore Art Museum, Metro Center Subway Station Washington DC, Citibank HK, Unicef NY, Sogo Dept Store Tokyo, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Fukuoka Art museum Japan, and the National Musuems in Sri Lanka, Cuba, USA, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, and Korea. Her most recent public art project was painting the Alkaff Bridge in Singapore.

Pacita Abad holds a Bachelor of Arts degree fro the University of the Philippines and Master of Arts degree from the University of San Francisco, California. She studied painting at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC. and The Art Student League in New York City. Pacita is a recipient of: the 2005 Ateneo Library Women's Writing Citation (ALIW); a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, a Washington DC Commission on the Arts Award, the New York State Council on the Arts visiting Artist Fellowship, the 1998 Likha Award marking the Centennial of Philippine Independence, and the 1984 TOYM Award as outstanding artist in the Philippines.

Pacita was celerated by the Philippine artistic community in her solo homecoming exhibit, "Circles in My Mind," at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in September 2004. She died December 7, 2004, after a three-year battle with lung cancer. She is now nominated for the National Artist Award.