Mylen Tumaliuan-Huggins is a Filipina-American visual artist based in Seattle, Washington.  Her artworks are primarily paintings in encaustic, mediums in oil and mixed media on paper, wood or canvas panels. She creates paintings that embody movement as lived experience. Through emergent abstraction grounded in material collaboration, she models a way of being that embraces constraint, cultivates presence, and allows form to arise through attentive action.

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Her work contributes to contemporary abstraction by expanding its cultural, pedagogical, and philosophical dimensions — offering viewers not just an image, but a way of seeing.

She has worked as an arts educator for The Children’s Museum, Arts Corps, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Public Schools, as well as an artist mentor for Arts Impact.  In addition, she served as a committee and board member for Arts Corps and a contributing art juror for Phinney Neighborhood Association. Her work has been shown at Core Gallery, exhibited at Piano Nobile, The Confluence Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, Phinney Neighborhood Association, Eras Living (The Lakeshore and Aljoya) and Dubsea Coffee. 

At the age of 14, Mylen immigrated with her family from the Philippines to the United States in 1982 landing in Toledo, OH, then relocated to Detroit, MI then onwards to Hartford, CT.  Her first formal exposure to visual art was when she attended Crockett Vocational School to study Commercial Art during the last two years of high school in Detroit, MI.  With her father’s encouragement, she later attended College for Creative Studies - Center for Art and Design in Detroit, Michigan majoring in Graphic Design and Illustration.  In 1995, Mylen moved with her husband from Chicago, IL to Seattle, WA.

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Her current practice reflects time regained.  Her studio work is disciplined, consistent, and intentional after devoting decades to teaching, caregiving, and supporting others’ growth. Now she centers her own.  Her work carries the weight of that history — not as narrative illustration, but as embodied understanding.