Intel Lastierre is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. Born in the Philippines and currently based in Texas, her practice investigates how colonial histories continue to shape contemporary political, economic, and social systems, with a particular focus on the Philippines and the United States. Through her work, she explores the lasting effects of European colonialism and U.S. imperialism, examining how histories of war, labor, race, migration, and land dispossession continue to influence present-day structures of power.

As a Filipino immigrant, Lastierre examines how colonial systems persist across different places and generations. Drawing from historical archives, folklore, mythology, and predator-prey dynamics, she translates these complex histories into visual and material forms. Her paintings function as counter-narratives to dominant historical frameworks, while her sculptures and installations operate as unstable counter-monuments that challenge fixed ideas of history, authority, and permanence. Through materials that erode, decay, and transform over time, her work investigates how unresolved histories continue to shape collective memory and everyday life.

Lastierre’s interdisciplinary background in architecture, engineering, photography, and art history informs her experimental approach to storytelling, spatial relationships, and material exploration. In 2014, she co-founded House of Frida Gallery in Bacolod City, Philippines, fostering artistic exchange and community engagement.

Her work has been exhibited across the Philippines and the United States, including in Manila, Bacolod, Cebu, San Marcos, Austin, Houston, Los Angeles, and South Carolina. She volunteered for the San Marcos Studio Tour in 2023 and served as a panelist for Austin’s Art in Public Places program in 2024. In 2025, she joined ICOSA Collective Gallery in Austin, was selected as a Fellow in Professional Practice through DORF Gallery’s inaugural FIPP Pilot Program, and received the Spring 2025 Artist Leadership Fellowship from Mid-America Arts Alliance. In 2026, she joined DORF’s Advisory Council.