Leeroy New Fernando Amorsolo

Region/Birthplace: General Region/Birthplace:

Santos Camarines Norte
Category: Painting
Category: Installation
Description:
Description: A contemporary Popularly known
Filipino fine artist whose for his
works overlap with theatre, craftsmanship and
film, fashion, and visual arts mastery in the use
of light

Artworks: Artworks:

Space and Astreopora Lights

Defense of a Filipina
Woman’s Honour
Space and Astreopora Lights (2015) take
inspiration from organic environments and life forms in
spite of a lifelong immersion in Manila’s urban jungle

Kawayan de Guia Pablo Amorsolo

Rice Planting
(1960) is oil on canvas
Defense of a Filipina
Woman’s Honour (1945)
and it measures 24.21
shows a Filipino man inches in height and
defending a woman from 34.25 inches in width.
being raped by an unseen
Japanese soldier.

Rice Planting
Region/Birthplace: Region/Birthplace:
Baguio Camarines Norte
Category: Painting
Category: Painting Description: He is
Description: He had the younger
numerous gallery and brother of
museum exhibitions Fernando
Amorsolo

Artworks: Artworks:
Fallout in Limpia Botas
Paradise Limpia Botas
depicts a child who
Fallout in Paradise
works as a shoe shiner.
(2018) used mixed
media, and measures 42
inches by 32 inches.
Fruit Vendor
And It’s Always
Fruit Vendor
Better Sweet
depicts a girl who sells
And It’s Always fruits.
Better Sweet (2016)
used mixed media, and
measures 164 cm by 133
cm by 7 cm.
Carlos Francisco
Region/Birthplace:
Angono, Rizal
Category: Muralist
Description: Best
known for his
historical pieces
Artworks:
Blood
Compact
Blood Compact
(1957) shows the act of
sealing a friendship or
treaty, or to validate an
agreement.
First Mass at
Limasawa
First Mass at
Limasawa (1960s) depicts Fr.
Pedro Valderrama officiating
the mass in an improvised
altar in the presence of
Ferdinand Magellan,
Pigafetta, Spanish soldiers,
and the natives in awe
Cesar Legaspi
Region/Birthplace:
Tondo, Manila
Category: Painting
Description: His
works are described
as depictions of
anguish and
dehumanization of
beggars and laborers
in the city
Artworks:
Man and
Woman
Man and Woman
(1985) shows a couple in
rags amidst the
skeletons of buildings
which we broken like
surrealist sculpture.
Gadgets
Gadgets (1949)
reflects the increasing
importance of machines
in the post-war
industrialization period.
Annie Cabigting
Region/Birthplace: Manila
Category: Painting
Description: Her works are
known for its reflexive
questioning of what
constitutes art: the various
aspect of producing, looking
and privileging visual images
throughout history
Artworks:
Mesdames
Mesdames (2012)
is oil on canvas.
Hastened Glimpses
of Dead Metaphors in
Vanished Splendor
Hastened Glimpses of
Dead Metaphors in Vanished
Splendor (2013) is oil on
canvas.
Ugu Bigyan
Region/Birthplace:
Quezon
Category: Pottery
Description: A
celebrated pottery
artist before he
delved into cooking
Artworks:
Ugu Bigyan’s
Pottery
Ugu Bigyan’s
Pottery are displayed on
his own restaurant not
only to attract customers
but also to present what
his life was before he
owned a restaurant.
Lanelle Fernando
Region/Birthplace:
Antipolo City
Category: Pottery
Description: She
specializes in functional,
handmade stoneware
ceramics
Artworks:
Lanelle Fernando’s
Pottery
Lanelle Fernando’s Pottery
are lead-free, non-toxic, and
microwave, oven, and
dishwasher-safe and can be
bought in Lanelle’s store located
in the Crescent Moon Café in
Antipolo.
Mitch Shivers
Region/Birthplace:
Manila
Category: Industrial
Designer
Description: Mitch
redefines useless
garbage by showcasing
functional art made of
salvaged items that
have been up-cycled or
repurposed
Artworks:
G-55
G-55 consists of a
lounge chair and side table
with QR pillow made from
55-gallon industrial
container drum, salvaged
SUV pistons, repurposed TV
picture tube frame, lid of
container drum.
Maschine
Maschine consists of a
coffee table made from
reclaimed hardwood planks,
re-used industrial metal
casters, assorted salvaged
gears and cogs
Rajo Laurel Napoleon Abueva

Region/Birthplace: Makati City Region/Birthplace:

Category: Fashion Designing Tagbiliran, Bohol
Description: He is best known Category:
as a television personality as a Sculpture
judge on Project Runway
Description: Father
Philippines. It is the
workmanship and artisan of Modern
quality that makes his pieces Philippine
distinct. Sculpture

Artworks: Artworks:
Prism Holiday Transfiguration
2018 Collection Transfiguration
(1979) represents our
Prism Holiday 2018 faith in God and life
Collection is inspired by eternal.
the decadence and the

Kaganapan
debauchery of the late
70’s to the mid 80’s
Kaganapan (1952)
interprets the female
reproductive function as
a fulfillment to women.
Melecio Figueroa
Region/Birthplace: Arevalo,
Iloilo
Category: Sculpture
Description: sculptor and
engraver whose design was
featured in previous coin
series of the Philippine peso
Artworks:
Conant Series –
Five Centavos
and Fifty
Centavos
Conant Series – Five
Centavos (1932) and Fifty
Centavos (1918) coinage
system was known as the
Conant series, which was
named after Charles A.
Conant. Figueroa's designs
feature in Philippine peso
coins until the 1960s
Dante Enage
Region/Birthplace:
Tacloban City, Leyte
Category: Painting
Description: He is known
for using the red lauan
tan bark tree, the
natural pigmenting
agent of tuba, a local
wine made from
coconut juice or coconut
toddy
Artworks:
Duterte
Duterte (2016) was
Enage’s way of thanking
the president for his
good intentions for the
government.
Usbong 4
Usbong 4 (2014)
shows a tree managing
to re-grow leaves after a
storm.
Martino Abellana
Region/Birthplace:
Carcar, Cebu
Category: Painting
Description: Dubbed
“The Dean of
Cebuano Painters”
Artworks:
Carcar
Seascape
Carcar Seascape
(1977) depicts high tide
going out with two of his art
students standing in the
background beneath a
bright blue, almost cloudless
sky.
Fisherman
Fisherman (2013),
considering the depth and
scope of Martino Abellana’s
the famous Carcar landmark,
“Rotunda” by making
sketches.
Charlie Co
Region/Birthplace:
Bacolod City, Negros
Occidental
Category: Painting
Description: A co-
founder of the Black
Artists in Asia, a group
known for its socio-
political artworks in
the 1980’s to 1990’s
Artworks:
Me and My
Machine
Me and My Machine
depicts him on a hospital
bed with an arm raised,
holding court over a number
of dialysis machines as if
conversing with each of
them.
Tiananmen Men:
New People’s
Army
Tiananmen Men:
New People’s Army is oil
on canvas and measures
108 inches by 240
inches.
Susan Canoy Raul Agas

Region/Birthplace: Region/Birthplace:
Cebu
Dumaguete Category: Painting
Category: Painting Description: He has
Description: She is the ability to paint
with one stroke
known for her arts and only. Most of his
crafts works use an acrylic
paint.

Artworks: Artworks:
Bottle Art The Pier
Bottle Art is a The Pier inspired by
uniquely hand-painted his splendor of the
recycled bottle with her water.
advocacy on
Environmental A Scene from
Awareness expressing
Argao
through art.
A Scene from Argao
The Gatherers emphasizes the beauty
of having a simple life
The Gatherers
which Agas always
depicts three women
wanted to experience
with the two of them
carrying their harvests
for that day.
Hareol Tero Julbert Marañon

Region/Birthplace: Region/Birthplace:
Ormoc City Cebu
Category: Painting
Category: Painting
Description: A self-
Description: Known taught artist who loves to
for using acrylic on paint music in abstract
his paintings forms expressing them
uniquely in vibrant
Artworks: colors.
Balik Bangon
Artworks:
Balik Bangon
Musique Strings
shows hands trying to
reshape a shattered Series III
Philippine flag
Pininyahan sa Musique Strings
Payag Series III (2011) shows
his love for music
Pininyahan sa
Payag depicts a woman Garden Villa
carrying her little child
while slicing pineapples Garden Villa (2011)
shows his love for
buildings, especially
heritage buildings
 Sio Montera Kublai Millan
Region/Birthplace: Region/Birthplace:
Cebu
Cotabato
Category: Painting
Description: His art, Category: Sculpture
which he dubs as Description: Known for
process-oriented his giant sculptures
abstraction,
narrates the sights, Artworks:
sounds, interactions
Artworks: Risen Christ
and experiences,
which he interprets Risen Christ a sculpture of Christ with
Night Market his heart shown outside his chest, it is
in acrylics,
where the largest rosary is
combined with non-
Night Market ,with a 122
traditional
cm by 91.5 cm size, is Durian Monument
materials.
Montero’s own interpretation
of how the night market looks,
sounds, and feels like.
Durian Monument unfolds to
reveal the tri-people of Davao: the
My Sea of Lumads, the Muslims, the Settlers
Tranquility

My Sea of Tranquility
(2017) is acrylic on canvas and
it measures 122 cm by 91 cm.
 Abdulmari Asia Imao Danny Sillada

Region/Birthplace: Siasi, Region/Birthplace: Davao Oriental

Sulu
Category: Painting and
Sculpture
Description: First Muslim
recipient of the Philippine
National Artist Award
Category: Painting
Description: recognized in the
Philippine art scene for his paintings
and installation artworks, a literary
writer who is into prose and poetry,
a philosopher, whose writings are
akin with existentialism, a first-rate
performance artist, and also an art-
critic

Artworks: Artworks:
Search for Truth
Fish
The painting “Search for Truth”(2006), gives
the viewer the meaning of hope; hope that some
Fish (1992) inspired sort of “truth” can be found of that man, reaching
by the colorful fishes for the sky from inside a birdcage while winged
creatures fly about outside, celebrating sweet,
of Sulu absolute freedom.

Sarimanok
Wala Ka Bang Napapansin

Sarimanok (2013) Wala Ka Bang Napapansin (1996) is a

symbolizes good fortune painting of that man, reaching for the sky
from inside a birdcage while winged
creatures fly about outside, celebrating
sweet, absolute freedom
 Michael Bacol
Region/Birthplace:
Cagayan de Oro
Category: Painting
Description: He is a
self-educated artist
Joel Geolamen
Region/Birthplace: Davao del
Norte
Category: Painting
Description: He gives artistic
meaning to the simplest of
things and is able to transform
them into sublime motifs for
his delicate art

Artworks: Artworks:
Imago Mundi Waif Series –
Red and White
The painting, Imago
Mundi – Days of Innocence
Waif Series – Red
(2014) shows children who
and White (2011)
were exposed to violence at
represents that time in
young age depriving them of
life wherein we have
their innocence.
experienced
abandonment, being
rejected, etc.
 Ang Kiukok Bong Perez

Imagine John Lennon

Region/Birthplace: Davao Region/Birthplace:
Category: Painting Davao
Description: Filipino Category: Painting
Description: Bong’s
painter of Chinese descent
media are oil and
and was a National Artist acrylic with the
for Visual Arts subjects of landscapes,
ethnic culture, and
people in the urban
areas

Artworks: Artworks:
Cockerel Contrast of Life
Cockerel (1976) used
watercolor medium and
measures 76 cm by 56.5
cm. Contrast of Life depicts how poverty still
exists despite the continuous growth and
development of our country
The Last Supper
Imagine John Lennon shows the lyrics of the
song “Imagine” by John Lennon and some graphics
that corresponds to the message of the song

The Last Supper (1973) shows the final meal that Jesus
had with his twelve disciples before his crucifixion.
Salinta Monon Ambalang Ausalin

Region/Birthplace: Davao Region/Birthplace: ARMM

del Sur
Category: Weaving
Description: Through her
experience in weaving, she’s
able to identify the design as
well as the author of the
woven piece by just a glance
Category: Weaving
Description: One of the
known Yakan weavers of
Basilan are known to be
among the finest weavers in
the Southern Philippines

Artworks:

Yakan Weaving

Yakan Weaving consists of eye-catching and colorful

textiles with tiny motifs, and possess techniques wielded
only by seasoned weavers accomplishing designs restricted
for utilization within a certain weaving category only.

Inabal Weaving enables

Artworks: bagobo-tagabawa women to improve
their quality of life in their
communities, Inabal is a traditional

Inabal
ancestral cloth of Monon’s tribe with
a special weave.
Weaving