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1. NATIONAL ARTISTS OF THE
PHILIPPINES
PREPARED BY:
MRS.FERIDA LOBIGAN BASCUGUIN
2. If you’re given the title of National
Artist, you can consider yourself one
of the best. By being given the title, it
means you have given significant
contributions to the development of
Philippine arts and letters. The
recognition is given to those who
excel in the fields of Music, Dance,
Theatre, Visual Arts, Literature, Film
and Broadcast, and Architecture or
Allied Arts.
3. A person who receives this title gets the following honors
and privileges:
1. Rank and title of National Artist, as proclaimed by the
President of the Philippines;
2. Insignia of a National Artist and a citation;
3. Cash awards, monthly life pension, medical, and
hospitalization benefits, life insurance coverage, state
funeral and burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’
Cemetery), and a place of honor at national state functions
along with recognition at cultural events
There are 66 recognized National Artists to date, with the
fields of Visual Arts, Literature, and Music having the most
number of recognized National Artists.
Here are some of the more well-known National Artists of
the Philippines:
5. A man who believes that true Philippine
Architecture “is the product of two great
streams of culture, the oriental and the
occidental… to produce a new object of
profound harmony,” Leandro V. Locsin is the
man responsible for designing everything
you see at CCP Complex – the Cultural Center
of the Philippines, Folk Arts Theatre,
Philippine International Convention Center,
Philcite, and The Westin Hotel (now Sofitel
Philippine Plaza).
7. Catalino “Lino” Ortiz Brocka is known to
many as one of, if not the greatest Filipino
director of all time. He espoused “freedom
of expression” throughout all his films,
injecting each and every one with a social
activist spirit. Some of his well-known
works include Tinimbang Ka Ngunit
Kulang (1974), Maynila sa mga Kuko ng
Liwanag (1975), and Insiang (1976), the
latter being the first Filipino film to be
shown at Cannes.
9. Hailing from the Art Capital of the
Philippines, Angono native Carlos
“Botong” Francisco is known for
single-handedly reviving the modern
art of murals through works that
showed slices of the past. He was
such a prolific muralist that he
became its most well-known
practitioner for almost 30 years.
11. Levi Celerio, a prolific lyricist and
composer, is known for having
effortlessly translating or rewriting
lyrics of traditional Filipino melodies like
“O Maliwanag Na Buwan” (Iloko), “Ako
ay May Singsing” (Pampango), and
“Alibangbang” (Visaya). He’s also been
immortalized in the Guinness Book of
World Records as the only person to
make music using just a leaf.
13. Leonor Orosa Goquingco is a pioneer
Filipino choreographer known to many as
“The Trailblazer,” “The Mother of
Philippine Theater Dance,” and “Dean of
Filipino Performing Arts Critics.” She has
produced stunning choreographies during
her 50-year career, highlighted by
“Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend, and
Love,” which elevated native folk dance to
its highest stage of development.
15. Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero is a teacher and
theater artist who, in his 35 years of
teaching, has mentored some of the
country’s best Filipino performing
artists, including Joy Virata and
Joonee Gamboa. He is also the
founder and artistic director of the UP
Mobile Theater, leading the way for
the concept of a theater campus by
bringing theater closer to students
and audiences in the countryside.
17. One of the few living national artists, F. Sionil
Jose is best known for creating the five-novel
masterpiece known as the Rosales
saga: Poon;Tree; My Brother, My Executioner;
The Pretenders; and Mass. Set in the town of
Rosales, Pangasinan, it talks about the five
generations of two families, the Samsons and
the Asperri, during the Spanish and American
occupation.
19. If you’re a fan of Filipino artists that blend
Filipino ethnic and Western music, then you
should probably get to know Lucrecia R.
Kasilag. An educator, composer, performing
artist, administrator, and cultural
entrepreneur, she is seen as the pioneering
figure for fusing Filipino ethnic and Western
music, helping elevate Filipino’s appreciation
for music. Her best work is the prize-
winning Toccata for Percussions andWinds,
Divertissement and Concertante, which
incorporates indigenous Filipino instruments.
21. Ernest Concepcion (1977-
present)
Concepcion is a studio artist whose work
experiments with intense emotion,
deconstructing images in his paintings,
sculptures, and installations. He creates art
like recording a music album, where each
painting is from a series of nine. Concepcion
describes it as producing an old favorite, a
classic, sleeper hit and one piece he doesn’t
really like but keeps coming back to.
22. He is a graduate of the University of the
Philippines, with a Bachelor in Fine Arts
while under the mentorship of pioneer
conceptual artist Roberto Chabet. After
graduation, he moved to New York in 2002
and spent a significant amount of time in
Brooklyn, where he participated in art
residences for the Bronx Museum of
Art Artists-in-the-Marketplace (AIM)
Program, the Artists Alliance Inc. Rotating
Studio Program, and the Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council (LMCC) Workspace
Program.
23. Concepcion returned to Manila in
2013 with a triumphant solo show at
the U.P. Vargas Museum, after
participating in the El Museo del
Barrio La Bienal in New York. He
remains active on the Asian art scene
and is a recent recipient of the 13th
Artists Award by the Cultural Center
of the Philippines.
24.
25. Ronald Ventura (1973-present)
Ventura is a contemporary artist from Manila, with a
Bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts in Painting from the
University of Santo Tomas. He initially taught in the same
school after graduating but found his true calling as a
visual artist after his first solo exhibition at the Drawing
Room in Makati in 2000. Ventura’s work is known to
consist of multiple layers, using imagery that focuses on
the human form. His paintings are a dramatic union of
comic sketches, reality, and graffiti. He draws inspiration
from Asian mythology, Catholicism, science fiction and
comic book characters. He is known to have the highest
selling work in the history of the Southeast Asian art
market: his painting Grayground sold for a whopping $1.1
million USD at an auction in Sotheby’s Hong Kong.
27. Leeroy New (1986-present)
Initially trained as a sculptor, Leeroy’s work
blends theatre, fashion, film, production design,
and public art. He graduated from the
prestigious Philippine High School for the Arts,
before continuing his Fine Arts degree at the
University of the Philippines. He has received
artist residences in Singapore and Australia and
was awarded the 13 Artists Award by the Cultural
Center of the Philippines in 2014. His large-scale
public art uses common objects and materials
found in everyday environments.
28. In the sand dunes of Paoay, Ilocos Norte,
Leeroy collaborated with the local
government to convert discarded water tanks
and cement fountains into a post-apocalyptic
park filled with sculptures. His most recent
grant from the Burning Man Global Arts
foundation was used to transform the most
polluted waterway in Manila, the Pasig River,
with floating installations – challenging views
on the environment.
29.
30. Oscar Villamiel (1953-present)
Born in Caloocan City, Manila,Villamiel is a
multimedia artist known for his large-scale
installations consisting of objects found in local
communities. His art career may have started
later in life, but his installations have enthralled
audiences for the past decade. He initially
worked as a set designer for television, a leather
bag craftsman and a successful t-shirt company
entrepreneur before holding his first solo
exhibition in 2006.
31. He once filled a room with thousands of
bullhorns in his show Mga Damong Ligaw (‘Wild
Weeds’) in 2014, at the Light and Space
Contemporary in Fairview, Manila.The bullhorn
installation was made to look like a terrain of
weeds when viewed at a certain angle.Villamiel’s
work reflects the current socio-political situation
in the country, highlighting elements of poverty,
consumerism, and religion. His massive
installation Payatas, which features thousands of
doll heads, was chosen to represent the
Philippines in the Singapore Biennale exhibition
in 2013. It took him two-and-a-half years to finish
this work.
32.
33. Dex Fernandez (1984-present)
Another Caloocan native, Dexter practices a
variety of mediums ranging from painting to
street art and animation. He most recently
participated in art residency programs in Lir
Art Space,Yogyakarta, Indonesia
(2013), Asian Cultural Council in NewYork,
Fine ArtsWork Center, Massachusetts (2015),
and Ongoing Art Center,Tokyo (2016).
34. His work is influenced by pop culture, graffiti,
children’s drawings, and tattoos – creating
pieces that challenge people’s views on fine
art. He is known locally for his on-going series
of Garapata street art (theTagalogword for
‘tick’), filling public spaces with the notion of
‘infecting’ the city with his art.
35. Fernandez has exhibited extensively
in top galleries in the Philippines and
abroad, including in Paris, New York,
and the Singapore Biennale. He
recently participated in the
Melbourne Art Fair 2018 with fellow
Filipino, Melbourne-based artist
Diokno Pasilan.
37. Neil Pasilan (1971-present)
Brother to artist Diokno Pasilan, Neil is a
Bacolod-born artist from a family of
craftsmen and boat builders. He is a self-
taught visual artist who displayed creativity
as a child. Pasilan has moulded clay figures
for most of his life and continues to use this in
his work.
38. Currently based in Manila, he has become
known for his paintings that hold multiple
layers, using different mediums to expose
new forms. Pasilan’s work has been
represented by the Drawing Room of Manila,
Artinformal Gallery, andWest Gallery. A
notable collaboration with Raffy Napay was
featured in Art Fair Philippines in 2017.
40. Kawayan de Guia (1979-present)
This Baguio-born artist is son to legendary
filmmaker KidlatTahimik and German artist
Katrin de Guia, and was mentored by famous
Baguio artists BenCab and Santiago Bose.
Kawayan’s art contemplates the Philippines’
changing urban culture. He illogically arranges
texts and icons to compose a painting, depicting
the human form in new ways. His work draws
from popular culture, the media and mass
consumerism. He also creates sculptures and
massive art installations – such as his Bomba
series – and blings out discarded Jukeboxes.
41. In 2011, he initiated the Ax(iS) Art Project,
promoting the local artist community in the
chilly hill station of Baguio and the
Cordilleras. Kawayan has held numerous solo
exhibitions in the Philippines and abroad. He
was a guest curator for the Singapore
Biennale in 2013.
42.
43. Patricia Perez Eustaquio (1977-
present) Eustaquio is an artist who works in various mediums,
experimenting with different materials through
installation, drawing, and painting.The frames from
her painting are cut, resulting in canvases that evoke
images of wilted flowers and carcasses. Her
sculptures are fashioned from fabric, covering
objects with resin-treated silk or crochet.The object
is then removed, to allow the fabric to retain its
position, folds and drapes. Her work examines the
ideas of perception and memory. Eustaquio’s solo
exhibitions have been held in Manila, NewYork,
Taiwan, and Singapore. In 2016, her site-specific
installation was featured in the Palais deTokyo in
Paris.
45. Martha Atienza (1981-present
Born to a Dutch mother and Filipino father,
Atienza continues to live both in the
Philippines and Holland. After receiving her
Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Academy of
Visual Arts and Design in the Netherlands,
she accepted residency grants from England,
Australia, NewYork and Singapore. Her video
art reflects snapshots of reality and the
environment drawn from her Filipino and
Dutch roots.
46. She is currently interested in using
contemporary art as an aid to bring about
social change. In 2017, she won the Baloise
Art Prize at Art Basel International Fair for her
video installation Our Islands, 11°16`58.4”
123°45`07.0”E., which shows a traditional
Catholic procession from the Philippines
under water.
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48. Elmer Borlongan (1967-present)
The Manila-based artist often refers to Filipino culture in his
paintings, drawing from everyday scenes of local urban life,
which sharply depict an imperfect world. Borlongan’s work
is a favorite among collectors and at auctions. In his first
major work, Rehimen (1988), he uses bold brushwork to
manipulate the Marlboro emblem, which is guarded by a
pack of dogs as an emaciated figure lays in despair in the
foreground.The painting represents the marginalized
Filipino people who are living in poverty, with no way of
moving forward. In February 2018, Borlongan celebrated a
retrospective of 25 years in art, showcasing more than 150
paintings and 50 drawings featured in the Metropolitan
Museum of Manila.
