CONTEMPORARY FILIPINO ARTIST

Humanities 102Josefino T. Larena ,AB,CPS,CPE,MPA

Maria Taniguchi• Maria Taniguchi was born and raised in

Dumaguete City. After a BFA in Sculpture at the University of the Philippines, she completed an MFA in Art Practice at Goldsmiths in London in 2009. In the same year she joined the LUX Associates Artists Program, a post-academic program based in London for artists working with the moving image.

• Recently, Taniguchi won the 2015 Hugo Boss Asia Art Award for Emerging Asian Artists at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai.

Her Work• Untitled

acrylic on canvas9 x 16 ft • 108 x 192 in • 274.3 x 487.7 cm2014Maria Taniguchi

RONALD VENTURA• Ronaldo Ventura

-auction sensation.-his paintings and sculpture

feature a - complex layering of image and styles, symbolic of the multifaceted national

identity of the Philippines.

HIS ARTWORK

CONTEMPORARY FILIPINO ARTIST:

• Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan

-their work speaks of community, personal experience, memory, displacement, and emotional, psychological affects of migration.

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THEIR ARTWORK

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CONTEMPORARY FILIPINO ARTIST:

– -another project in 2012 at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation was a floor-to-ceiling installation of miniature car board houses made by the artist and local communities.

MARK SALVASTUS•  a Filipino contemporary artist

 living and working between Manila, Philippines, and Osaka, Japan.

• His work deals with familiar objects, chance encounters, and everyday politics, using media such as drawings, installations, photography, video, and street art in interactive and participatory projects.

HIS ARTWORK

Alfredo and Isabel AquilizanAlfredo and Isabel Aquilizan

CRISTINA “KITTY” SOLLESTA TANIGUCHI

• Proprietor/Curator- Mariyah Gallery, 1992 – present

Project Director, Open Dumaguete Biennial Terracotta Art Festival Exhibit and Competition, 2005, 2007.

Speaking engagement: April 2006 University of Pennsylvania, USA ROWAN UNIVERSITY, NEW JERSEY, USA

• Honorable Mention and Finalist, Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards 1994, 2000, 2003 The 2nd Beijing International Art Biennale 2005 Exhibit ParticipantBeijing Intl. Art Biennale Special Exhibition 2008 ParticipantThe 3rd Beijing International Art Biennale Exhibit ParticipantThe 4th Beijing Internationak Art Biennale select participantAuditor, The National Writing Workshop, May 2002, Director- Dr. Edith L. Tiempo The 11th Asian Arts International Festival, China, 2009The Sculpture Creative Camp of the 11th Asian Arts International Festival, Beijing, 2009Garbo sa Bisaya Award given by the Visayas Biennale

AFFILIATIONS

Kasibulan: Philippine Women Artist’s AssociationNational Commission for Culture and Arts: National Committee on Art GalleriesDumaguete Open Biennial Terra Cotta Art festival - Board of DirectorsMariyah Gallery: Board of Directors 

His Artwork

CONSTANTINO ZICARRELI• -his work often reflect the

history of drone metal, black metal, and everything rock n’ roll.• -he chooses to paint the

deviant and morose. With his art, • Costantino Zicarelli hopes to

change how viewers look with disfavor and antipathy paintings that are not eye candies.

HIS ARTWORKDESTROYED ROOMPedro Ubaldo Ain't Holy Anymore

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RODEL TAPAYA-weaves contemporary reality with folk narratives in a vibrant tableaux that draw inspiration from his research into folktales and pre-colonial history.

MOUNTAIN FANTASY CANE OF KABUNIAN

PACITA ABAD• Philippine-American contemporary

painter, was born in Basco, Batanes,

• During her career Pacita created over 4,500 artworks, and her paintings were exhibited in more than 200 museums and galleries around the world.

HER WORKS• CERAMICS • GLASS

HER WORKS• ANITO • BUTTERFLY WITH LOTUS

Elmer Borlongan•  is a prominent

contemporary Filipino painter best known for his distinctive use of figurative expressionism.• He is one of the CCP

Thirteen Artists Awardees

• POP COLA KID • HATING KAPATID

MANUEL OCAMPO• Manuel Ocampo composes his

paintings using motifs from popular western iconography, religious symbols art history, and literature.

• He believes loaded images to be his tools as an artist—an idea that became manifest in his 2011 exhibition “The Painter’s Equipment.”

HIS WORKS• KILLING HISTORY

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BRENDA FAJARDO•  began her career in the visual arts

as a printmaker and graphic artist before moving on to painting.

• Most of her works carry strong historical and nationalist themes as well as depict folk and mythological tales. She has held several solo exhibitions, locally and internationally.

• She has also joined group shows in the country and in international exhibitions.

HER WORKS

Lordy Rodriguez• a contemporary artist who uses

cartography and maps to reconfigure factual locations and create fictional assemblage pieces.

• Rodriquez has had solo exhibitions at the Austin Museum of Art (Austin, TX), the Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA), and Clementine Gallery (New York).

His works

His works

KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA.• Lives between Dumaguete (Philippines) and Madrid (Spain).

Individual projects include: Museo Carrillo Gil, in Mexico, Selesar Sunaryo, Mes56 and Cemeti House (Indonesia), Grey Projects (Singapore), Vargas Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila (Philippines),Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Murcia, Spain. He has also participated in various collective projects, among them the 3rd Bucharest Biennale (Romania), 3rd Guangzhou Triennale (China), Konstholl C in Stockholm (Sweden), Caixa Forum in Barcelona and La Casa Encendida in Madrid, MUSAC in León (Spain), Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain (Luxembourg), Apexart in New York (USA), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico) and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin (Colombia). Currently developing the curatorial platform Moving Image Lab Filipinas (MILF) which experiments on video as an exhibition format with the goal of expanding and decentralizing the contemporary art scene outside of Manila and creating network and collaboration not only in the Philippines but in Southeast Asia as well as with Latin America and Spain.

His work•

Negros Paintings is the title of the first solo exhibition of the artist KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA in Espacio Minimo Gallery where shows new works of Ghost Paintings series. His exhibition serves as an introduction in Spain to 2 series of experiments that he has developed in Negros island, Philippines: Ghost Paintings (Toldo Category) and Ghost Painting (Utot Category).

Jao Mapa• Jao Mapa is Jose Vicente Mapa III

in real life. He was born in 1976 and currently works as an actor in Philippine showbiz industry. He was an accomplished model and painter. Jao graduated at the University of Santo Tomas and earned his degree in Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, major inn Advertising. Jao married his wife Cecile, and has three children, Benjamin, Caleb and Amber Marie. He became popular in the Pepsi Cola advertisement and later opened opportunities for him to join in the showbiz world.

His Work• Jao mapa’s “CHESS”

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FERNANDO AMORSOLO• was born May 30, 1892, in

the Paco district of Manila. • At 13 he was apprenticed to

the noted Philippine artist Fabian de la Rosa,

• First National Artist in Painting (1972)

•  so-called "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art“

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His Works Planting Rice Afternoon Meal of the Workers (Noonday Meal

of the Rice Workers) Fruit Pickers Harvesting Under The Mango Tree Making of the Philippine Flag Fruit Gatherer Sunday Morning Going To Town The Bombing of the Intendencia Dalagang Bukid

HIS ARTWORK

HIS ARTWORK

CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO

• one of the greatest Filipino visual artists and muralists.

• recognized as a Philippine National Artist  in 1973.

• He was affectionately called "Botong“

•  one of the of the modernist artists together with Galo Ocampo and Victorio Edades known as " The Triumvirate”"

HIS ARTWORKMAGPUPUKOT BLOOD COMPACT

VICENTE MANANSALA• Filipino cubist painter and illustrator.

Manansala was born in Macabebe, Pampanga

• In 1981, he was posthumously recognized as one of the National Artists of the Philippines in Visual Arts

• His signature style is based on Cubism, but rather than breaking down figures, shows them through transparent angular forms.

HIS ARTWORKMOTHER AND THE CHILD BALUT VENDOR

HIS ARTWORKCOMMUNITY PLANTING OF THE FIRST CROSS

VICTORIO EDADES• is a Filipino painter who was the

leader of the revolutionary Thirteen Moderns 

• "Father of Modern Art in the Philippines" and named National Artist in 1976,

• One of the triumvirate with Galo B. Ocampo and Botong Francisco

HIS ARTWORKTHE SKETCH BUILDERS

Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo

• a Filipino artist. He is acknowledged as one of the great Filipino painters of the late 19th century

• one of the greatest Filipino painters along with fellow painter Juan Luna in the 19th century

Felix Resurreccion P. Hidalgo

• Laguna Estigia• Young Filipina• La Barca de Aqueronte• A lady in the Moonlight, • La Marina, • Self Portrait 

HIS ARTWORKYOUNG FILIPINA AFTER THE TYPHOON

FABIAN DELA ROSA•  Filipino painter. • He was an uncle and mentor to the

Philippines' national artist in painting, Fernando Amorsolo, and to his brother Pablo.

•  He is regarded as a "master of genre" in Philippine art

• recognized and was given the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan (Guide of the Arts and Culture) by the City of Manila in 1968

HIS ARTWORKMARIKINA VALLEY PLANTING RICE

JUAN LUNA• a Filipino painter, sculptor

and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century. He became one of the first recognized Philippine artists.

HIS ARTWORKSPOLIARIUM P

ANG KIUKOK•  a leading Filipino painter and a 

National Artist for Visual Arts. • He first attained prominence in

the Philippine arts scene in the 1960s with a distinct style that fused influences fromcubism, surrealism and expressionism. Some classified his style as "figurative expressionism", others merely called it ugly

HIS ARTWORKCrucifixion MOTHER AND CHILD

Lorenzo Leogardo Guerrero

• Lorenzo Leogardo Guerrero (4 November 1835 – 8 April 1904) was a painter and an art teacher. He was the elder brother of Leon Ma. Guerrero and art teacher to internationally-acclaimed painter, Juan Luna.

His Artwork

Anita Magsaysay-Ho• was a Filipino painter. She was the

only female member of the Thirteen Moderns, a standing group of Filipino modernist artists and in 1958 was chosen by a panel of experts at the six major painters of the country.

• The most famous work of Magsaysay-Ho are subject to the beauty of Filipino women dealing with everyday issues. 

Her Work• "Women with Fans", 1984. 

Oil on canvas, 37 x 94cm.  

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