David Cortez Medalla

David Cortez Medalla (b.1938) is a London-based Filipino visual artist, and a pioneer of kinetic art, earth art, performance art, participation art and conceptual art. At the age of 12, he had already lectured at the University of the Philippines, and by 14 he was admitted to Columbia University in New York to study philosophy and Greek drama. In the mid 1950s, he returned to the Philippines and met Fernando Zóbel, the artist, educator and philanthropist, who later on became one of his earliest patrons. Medalla then moved to Europe, where he has based himself since while traversing the globe with his multi-disciplinary art practice.

He has exhibited in numerous international art exhibitions and festivals including Documenta 5, the 16th Biennale of Sydney, and is the director and founder of the London Biennale. Medalla is represented in museum collections including the Ateneo Art Gallery, the FRAC – Pays de la Loire in France and Tate Britain in the UK. In May 2011, the artist unveiled one of his iconic bubble machines “Cloud Canyons No. 14” at New York’s New Museum. Described as the first work of auto-creative art, it was selected by exhibitions director Massimiliano Gioni as an iconic modern work of art.

Visit the Ateneo Art Gallery!

Address

Soledad V Pangilinan Arts Wing, Areté
Ateneo de Manila University
Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights
Quezon City, Manila, Philippines 1108

Get Directions Navigate Using Waze

Contact

Telephone

+632 8426 6001 loc. 5392

Telephone

+632 8426 6488

Email

aag@ateneo.edu

Social Media

Facebook

@ateneoartgallery

Instagram

@ateneoartgallery

Twitter

@ateneogallery

Copyright 2024 Ateneo Art Gallery - Ateneo de Manila University.
Powered by Passion.