Marcel Antonio is a Filipino painter. Considered one of the most promising young talents in Philippine contemporary art while still attending the University of the Philippines' College of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, he launched a solo show and thereafter dropped out of the college to continue to produce collections of his distinctly narrative as well as pseudo-narrative figurative paintings influenced by modernism and 1980s postmodernism. Since then, Antonio produced enough sold-out works to be quickly counted as one of the Philippines' young painters most proficient in the magic realist sort of post-expressionism in the country.
Since his dropping out of college to concentrate on a profitable, already-budding career, Antonio has to this day continued to be considered a prize of collectors in the Manila art market. This market following has in turn granted him mainstream gallery success through an unending series of sold-out exhibitions courtesy of his art dealers.