This document provides information on several contemporary Filipino artists including Ronald Ventura, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Mark Salvastrus, Gary-Ross Patrana, Constantino Zicarelli, Rodel Tapaya, Pacita Abad, Elmer Borlongan, Manuel Ocampo, Brenda Fajardo, Lordy Lodriguez, Ana Fer, Fernando Amorsolo, Carlos "Botong" Francisco, Vicente Manansala, Victorio Edades, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Fabian de la Rosa, Juan Luna, Ang Kiukok, and Anita Magsaysay-Ho. It discusses their backgrounds, artistic styles

1. CONTEMPORARY
FILIPINO ARTIST

2. 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.

3. HIS ARTWORK

4. CONTEMPORARY FILIPINO ARTIST:
• Alfredo and Isabel
Aquilizan
-their work speaks of
community, personal
experience, memory,
displacement, and
emotional,
psychological affects of

5. THEIR ARTWORK
Alfredo and Isabel AquilizanAlfredo and Isabel Aquilizan

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. MARK SALVASTUS
• His works are heavily
influenced by the urban
landscape, internet,
advertising, and popular
culture.

9. HIS ARTWORK
Alfredo and Isabel AquilizanAlfredo and Isabel Aquilizan

10. GARY- ROSS PATRANA
interested in the
consequences of transforming
the physicality of an object and
how the connotations
attached to the originals are
affected by the transformation.
-explore how an object can
still retain its “wholeness or
thing-ness”.

11. 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.

12. HIS ARTWORK
DESTROYED ROOM
Pedro Ubaldo Ain't Holy
Anymore
Alfredo and Isabel AquilizanAlfredo and Isabel Aquilizan

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

14. MOUNTAIN FANTASY CANE OF KABUNIAN

15. 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.

16. PACITA ABAD
• Pacita Abad's painting is
characterized by color, constant
change and experimentation
• Pacita's most extensive body of
work is her vibrantly, colorful,
mixed media painted textile
collages, abstract assemblages,
and trapunto paintings.

17. HER WORKS
• CERAMICS • GLASS

18. HER WORKS
• ANITO • BUTTERFLY WITH LOTUS

19. 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

20. Elmer Borlongan
• He has held numerous
exhibitions in the
Philippines and abroad.
• He was an Artist-in-
Residence in ARCUS
Ibaraki, Japan in 1996

21. • POP COLA KID • HATING KAPATID

22. 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.”

23. HIS WORKS
• KILLING HISTORY
Alan VALENCIAAlan VALENCIA

24. 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.

25. HER WORKS

26. Lordy Lodriguez
• s 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).

27. His works

28. His works

29. ANA FER
• has done numerous illustrations, posters,
paintings, and installations with sociopolitical and
feminist themes.
• She held her first one-person exhibition of
drawings, Emanation at the Hyatt Regency. In
1991 she exhibited her ecological Earth
Triptych murals in CCP. She also participated in
the Metropolitan Museum's Centennial exhibit in
1998.

30. Her works

31. FILIPINO PAINTERS

32. 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“
•

33. FERNANDO AMORSOLO
• known for his illuminated
landscapes, which often
portrayed traditional Filipino
customs, culture, fiestas and
occupations.
• Amorsolo averaged to
finishing 10 paintings a
month

34. 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

35. HIS ARTWORK

36. HIS ARTWORK

37. 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”"

38. CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO
• Magpupukot
• Blood Compact
• Bayanihan
• Portrait of Purita
• The Martyrdom of
Rizal

39. HIS ARTWORK
MAGPUPUKOT BLOOD COMPACT

40. 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.

41. HIS ARTWORK
MOTHER AND THE CHILD BALUT VENDOR

42. HIS ARTWORK
COMMUNITY
PLANTING OF THE FIRST
CROSS

43. 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

44. VICTORIO EDADES
• It was during this time that he
introduced a liberal arts program that
offered subjects as art history and
foreign languages that will lead to a
Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.
• This development brought about a
first in Philippine education since art
schools then were mostly vocational
schools.

45. HIS ARTWORK
THE SKETCH BUILDERS

46. 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

47. Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo
• Laguna Estigia
• Young Filipina
• La Barca de Aqueronte
• A lady in the Moonlight,
• La Marina,
• Self Portrait

48. HIS ARTWORK
YOUNG FILIPINA AFTER THE TYPHOON

49. 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

50. HIS ARTWORK
MARIKINA VALLEY PLANTING RICE

51. 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.

52. HIS ARTWORK
SPOLIARIUM PLANTING RICE

53. ANG KIUKOK
• a leading Filipinopainter 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 expr
essionism. Some classified his
style as "figurative
expressionism", others merely
called it ugly

54. HIS ARTWORK
Crucifixion MOTHER AND CHILD

55. 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