Dominic Mangila holds an MFA degree in visual arts from Columbia University where he has taught in the visual arts department and a BFA in studio art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dominic had solo and group exhibitions at the Drawing Room, Metropolitan Museum Manila, 2018 Gwangju Biennale, Tokyo Gendai, S.E.A. Focus, Melbourne Art Fair, Art Market Hamptons, Asia Art Fair Paris, The Armory New York to name a few. He participated in artist residencies such as Skowhegan, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Yaddo, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Woodstock Byrdcliffe and Seven Below Arts Initiative. He is a recipient of New York Community Trust Art Grant, Lotos Club Foundation Art Award, D'Arcy Trust Fund, Agnes Martin Fellowship and Chicago Community Art Grant. He received a 2024 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

The Drawing Room began as a specialist venue revitalizing works on paper. It has since expanded to various artistic formats grounded on defined sensibilities that map the complex scope of thinking attributed to the terrain of contemporary Philippine art. The gallery features artists whose respective practices represent the country in constant frenetic flux and depict the ensemble of realities that makes up a complex society. It values the depth of a relationship a gallery offers to the artist and propels them through a critical program of exposure and support of their interdisciplinary artistic process. Aside from monthly exhibitions in Manila, The Drawing Room circulates its artists off-site shows in other spaces in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Jakarta, New York, and Paris. It is a regular participant of art fairs both local and international.