Ronyel Compra (b. 1985, Philippines) is a visual artist based in Bogo City, whose interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, video, printmaking, painting, and site-specific installation.

His work explores the intersection of memory, identity, and territoriality through a pseudo-archaeological approach—excavating colonial residue embedded in material culture, landscapes, and everyday objects.

Grounded in both speculative methods and embodied fieldwork, Compra recontextualizes found and discarded materials—termite soil, rusted tools, salvaged bicycle parts, election posters, and vernacular architectures—into sculptural and archival forms.

His projects include Imprint of Lola Masyang’s House, a decade-long engagement with memory and soil rubbings from his grandmother’s home, and site-specific basketball hoops made from scrap materials, reflecting colonial legacies of imposed sport and spatial remapping.

Compra has exhibited internationally at Stanley Picker Gallery and Gasworks (UK), Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD Manila), MONO8 Gallery, and The Drawing Room (PH). He has participated in residencies at Gasworks (London), Bellas Artes Projects (Manila), and AIR-H (Japan), and is a recipient of the Para Site NoExit Grant (Hong Kong). He has been shortlisted for the SEA-AIR NTU CCA Singapore 2023 and the Ateneo Art Awards – Fernando Zóbel Prize for Visual Art. He is currently a faculty lecturer at the University of the Philippines Cebu.