Rebirth and Resurrection

Artist Biography

Niño “Nins” Hechanova Acero (1995, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental) is a self-taught artist based in Davao City- he is one of the core members of the Pintanao Art Group. Niño is currently working as a graphic/layout artist and a freelancer who accepts mural projects, portraits, and other painting commissions.
Niño was already passionate about visual arts since his childhood drawing anime characters as his starting point. In high school, he became one of the cartoonists in their school publication. He continues to develop and enhance his art skills through accepting art commissions, art talks, joining art exhibits, and self-painting study by using different mediums like graphite, charcoal, ink, watercolor, latex, acrylic, and especially oil paints in a limited palette style like Zorn palette which he currently used in most of his works. A noticeable resemblance of Niño in most of his paintings as he loves to use himself as a reference and enjoys painting self-portraits. His piece expressively achieves the classical thematic concept that portrays emotions, beautiful scenery, and surreal subjects and creatures.