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Painter · Illustrator · LEGO sculptor

SpidercideWhere superheroes meet fine art

Jed Steven Ong Cunanan, known as Spidercide, paints, illustrates and builds in LEGO in Baguio City, for collectors across the Philippines and around the world.

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Painting of a green-haired, grinning figure clutching his face on a bridge under a swirling orange sky
The Laughing Shriek 39 × 49 in
  • BFAPainting, University of Santo Tomas, 2023
  • TVInterviewed by Korina Sanchez, 2025
  • FloatsPanagbenga Festival sculptural work, 2024–2025
  • ShowsExhibited at The Manor, Camp John Hay, 2025–2026

Four ways into the work

  • Tall painting of a caped hero in blue and red standing between two darker figures, flames rising behind

    Paintings

    Original paintings that turn the heroes and villains of pop culture into fine art.

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  • Life-size seated sculpture of a masked hero in a silver suit and black cape

    Sculptures

    Large-scale sculpture, from a life-size hero to work for the Panagbenga Festival floats.

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  • Large sculpted head built from rainbow-coloured LEGO bricks on a LEGO garden base, inside a glass case

    Lego Art

    Sculptures built from LEGO elements, where old and even broken bricks are given a new purpose.

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  • The artist seated in a striped shirt, smiling, in front of his landscape paintings

    Commissions

    A piece made for you. Tell Spidercide what you have in mind.

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The paintings

Heroes, out of their own timelines

Spidercide paints familiar heroes in places their stories never took them: a villain inside a famous scream, a speedster breaking into a city street. Fifty-one paintings so far, each a character seen through a different lens.

His painting leans on Impressionism and Expressionism, on colour, emotion and movement, rather than on copying the comic page.

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Fractured, brightly coloured painting of a city street with a red-suited runner breaking through it
The Street Enters Barrys House49 × 49 inA densely detailed, colorful cityscape with a red speedster amid lightning and urban chaos.

What makes it his

A painter’s training, a collector’s memory

  1. Trained in fine art

    Formal training at Brent International School Baguio under Robert Joaquin, the IB Higher Level Visual Arts programme, then a BFA in Painting from the University of Santo Tomas.

  2. The stories nobody tells

    He digs out the overlooked corners of comic history, like Batman’s colourful costumes of the 1950s, and brings them back through a contemporary eye.

  3. Built from memory

    He has memorised every comic book and LEGO piece he has bought, and he can build new LEGO pieces from memory.

  4. A second life for materials

    Old brushes, used pencils, leftover paint and even broken LEGO bricks become part of the work.

The wall of work

Twelve of his 51 paintings. Open any panel to see it larger, or inquire about it.

  • The Laughing Shriek

    39 × 49 in

  • The Last Daughter

    30 × 30 in

  • The Split Perspective

    30 × 30 in

  • The Master Of The Seven Tides

    39 × 49 in

  • The Siren Of AFire Escape

    30 × 30 in

  • The Street Enters Barrys House

    49 × 49 in

  • The Pointilist Prodige

    49 × 49 in

  • Mambabatok

    15 × 15 in

  • Stars In Scarlet

    30 × 30 in

  • A Woman With A Lasso

    39 × 49 in

  • Lionous Legacy

    30 × 30 in

  • The Pimp Of The Iceburg

    30 × 30 in

Where the work comes from

Made in Baguio City. Collected far beyond it.

Spidercide works in Baguio City, whose cool climate, vibrant culture and artistic community give him a comfortable place to paint. His work goes to collectors across the Philippines and around the world.

Studio hours: Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM

The origin story

Jed Steven Ong Cunanan, in years

A boy in Baguio City painting cartoon characters at four became Spidercide: a painter, illustrator and LEGO sculptor who turns familiar heroes into fine art.

The artist seated on a white sofa in front of a painted sunset mural, surrounded by his framed paintings
  1. 2001Born in Baguio City.
  2. Age 4Paints his first pop-culture characters, on canvases his tutor prepared.
  3. Age 8Finds comic books, and Batman.
  4. 2016His work is featured in the Flora Art Exhibition and on its poster.
  5. 2019Brent Diploma and IB Higher Level Visual Arts.
  6. 2023BFA in Painting, University of Santo Tomas.
  7. 2024–2025Large-scale sculptural work for the Panagbenga Festival floats, with Ketchup Eusebio.
  8. 2025Interviewed by Korina Sanchez.
  9. 2025–2026Exhibits at The Manor, Camp John Hay.

Commissions

Your hero, painted by Spidercide

Tell him who you have in mind: a painting, a portrait, a sculpture or a LEGO piece, made for you in Baguio City.

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