Luce Domini F. Melegrito (b. 2003), a visual artist based in Marikina City, is currently taking Visual Communication under the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD). She graduated from the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA), and received the Cultural Center of the Philippines - Philippine High School for the Arts (CCP-PHSA) Scholarship for Visual Arts. Luce is also a scholar of UPD Office of Initiatives in Culture and the Arts, under its Visual Arts and Cultural Studies Scholarship Program.

She is a multi-disciplinary artist who is able to work with different media: painting, illustration, sculpture, film, and photography; with expertise in both digital and traditional forms. Her works are heavily inspired and influenced by her ancestral roots in Ilocos, particularly on her family legacy in Ilocano inabel handloomweaving. Exploring themes of self and identity, Luce constantly weaves a part of herself into her work as a way to honor and acknowledge her Ilocano roots despite growing up in Marikina City.

Luce’s senior high school thesis at the PHSA - “Sangagasút a Sagút, Sangagasút a Ságut (A Century of Ilocano Legacy)” - won an Excellence Award (Audio/Visual Category) and a Merit Award (Special and Experiential Events Category) at the 10th Philippine Student Quill Awards in 2024, organized by the International Association of Business Communicators Philippines (IABC Philippines). She has also been a finalist at the 55th and 56th editions of Pilipinas Shell National Students Art Competition in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Her painting placed first (Student Category) at the Ilocos Sur Kannawidan Festival in 2023. Luce participated at the 20th International High School Arts Festival in Tokyo, Japan in 2019 as the Philippine Artist-Representative, awarded by the International Foundation for Arts and Culture (IFAC).

She recently participated at the Annual Exhibit of Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Ang INK) at the Ayala Museum. Her works have also been included in several group exhibitions at the Altro Mondo Gallery, University of the Philippines Fine Arts Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Philippine High School for the Arts, Sining Makiling Gallery, and Magsaysay-Ho Gallery. She has also exhibited at the National Arts Center in Tokyo, Japan for three consecutive years, and at the Luminarie Gallery in Seoul, South Korea. Her thesis artworks have been displayed as thesis exhibitions at the University of Northern Philippines, Municipality of Caoayan’s Balai ti Ili, and Quitevis Residence in Ilocos Sur.

(as of July 2024)