Katrin de Guia

(b. 1950, Munich, Germany)

Katrin De Guia is an artist, an academic, a mother, and wife, not necessarily in that order. She works in sculpture, stained glass, painting, and conceptual art. She is the author of Kapwa—The Self in the Other: Worldviews and Lifestyles of Filipino Culture Bearers, the result of her pioneering research into the unique worldviews and lifestyles of Filipino culture-bearer artists. It comprises narrative accounts, critical essays and other writing in a variety of literary styles combined with theories and findings about Filipino psychology, cognitive science models and chaos research, from which a profile of Filipino personhood emerges. She subsequently organized the “Kapwa” international series of indigenous conferences. Her fascination with indigenous Filipino psychology led her to travel all over the country to meet and live with artists. She earned a diploma in Fine Arts and a doctorate degree in Philippine Psychology at the University of the Philippines.

De Guia lives and works in Baguio City, the Philippines.