Kawayan Thor Kalayaan De Guia (born 1979) is an artist who focuses on line drawings, performance art, and installations. He is the second of the three children of Filipino independent filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik and German stained-glass artist Katrin De Guia.



       Blond and blue-eyed De Guia was born in Baguio City. He finished his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines.

His artworks are presented through mixed media, “blending with his painting, excursions into installations, photography, video, and cyanotope printing,” among others.

       His first solo show was staged while he was attending the Philippine High School for the Arts, where he “mutilated, caged, and torched 108 Mickey Mouse facsimiles.”

       In 2007, De Guia's one-man exhibit Incubator presented portraits of acclaimed Filipino artists in nine pieces mixed media on canvas. De Guia said that the featured artists, Bencab, Santiago Bose, Roberto Villanueva, Rene Aquitania, Agnes Arellano, Tommy Hufalla, and father Kidlat Tahimik, served as mentors who have helped and influenced him with his craft.

       Incubator won him the 2008 Ateneo Arts Awards, which eventually earned him the 1st New York Arts Project residency grant in 2009. He was among the 30 artist recipients selected from over 900 applicants from 69 countries.
 

       In 2009, De Guia held two exhibitions, Ice Cold Happiness in Beijing, China, and the Baguio jeepney-jukebox project Katas ng Pilipinas for the Cultural Center of the Philippines's The Thirteen Artists Awards.

• Kawayan de Guia - The Drawing Room, Makati City