The document discusses various contemporary and historical Filipino artists, highlighting their backgrounds, artistic styles, and notable works. Artists like Maria Taniguchi and Ronald Ventura focus on themes of identity and community, while traditional figures such as Fernando Amorsolo and Juan Luna are celebrated for their contributions to Philippine art history. Overall, the document showcases the diversity and richness of Filipino artistry across different mediums and periods.

1. CONTEMPORARY FILIPINO ARTIST
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Josefino T. Larena ,AB,CPS,CPE,MPA

2. 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.

3. Her Work
•
• Untitled
acrylic on canvas
9 x 16 ft • 108 x 192 in • 274.3 x 487.7 cm
2014
Maria Taniguchi

4. 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.

5. HIS ARTWORK

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

7. THEIR ARTWORK
Alfredo and Isabel AquilizanAlfredo and Isabel Aquilizan

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. HIS ARTWORK
Alfredo and Isabel AquilizanAlfredo and Isabel Aquilizan

11. 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 Participant
Beijing Intl. Art Biennale Special Exhibition 2008 Participant
The 3rd Beijing International Art Biennale Exhibit Participant
The 4th Beijing Internationak Art Biennale select participant
Auditor, The National Writing Workshop, May 2002,
Director- Dr. Edith L. Tiempo
The 11th Asian Arts International Festival, China, 2009
The Sculpture Creative Camp of the 11th Asian Arts International Festival,
Beijing, 2009
Garbo sa Bisaya Award given by the Visayas Biennale
AFFILIATIONS
Kasibulan: Philippine Women Artist’s Association
National Commission for Culture and Arts: National Committee on Art
Galleries
Dumaguete Open Biennial Terra Cotta Art festival - Board of Directors
Mariyah Gallery: Board of Directors

12. His Artwork

13. 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.

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

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

16. MOUNTAIN FANTASY CANE OF KABUNIAN

17. 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.

18. HER WORKS
• CERAMICS • GLASS

19. HER WORKS
• ANITO • BUTTERFLY WITH LOTUS

20. 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

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 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).

27. His works

28. His works

29. 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.

30. 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).

31. 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.

32. His Work
• Jao mapa’s “CHESS”

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34. 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“
•

35. 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

36. HIS ARTWORK

37. HIS ARTWORK

38. 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”"

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. HIS ARTWORK
THE SKETCH BUILDERS

45. 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

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

47. HIS ARTWORK
YOUNG FILIPINA AFTER THE TYPHOON

48. 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

49. HIS ARTWORK
MARIKINA VALLEY PLANTING RICE

50. 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.

51. HIS ARTWORK
SPOLIARIUM P

52. 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 expr
essionism. Some classified his
style as "figurative
expressionism", others merely
called it ugly

53. HIS ARTWORK
Crucifixion MOTHER AND CHILD

54. 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.

55. His Artwork

56. 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.

57. Her Work
• "Women with Fans", 1984.
Oil on canvas, 37 x 94cm.

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