Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art

2021 Ateneo Art Awards – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Nice Buenaventura – Fools will copy but copies will not fool (June 2019, Artinformal Makati)
• Christina Lopez – Portraits (Proxies) (March 2020, The Drawing Room, Makati)
• Jo Tanierla – Pagburo at Pag-alsa: Natural Depictions and Illustrated Prophecies (Gelacio, 1910) (October 2020, UP Jorge B Vargas Museum)

Embassy of Italy Purchase Prize Recipient:

• Brisa Amir – Untitled Blankets (October 2019, Artinformal Makati)

Other artists shortlisted for the 2021 Ateneo Art Awards – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Renz Baluyot – Empire (October 2020, West Gallery)
• Mars Bugaoan – Appear Disappear ½ ¼ (April 2020, Kapitana Gallery, Talisay, Negros Occidental)
• Doktor Karayom – Patingin (May 2019, Blanc Gallery)
• Celine Lee – The Length and Breadth of Depth (November 2020, Underground Makati)
• Henrielle Baltazar Pagkaliwangan – On This Site Will Rise (Part of a group exhibition Fathom: The Monumental Art Series, October 2019, Orange Project, Bacolod)
• Ioannis Sicuya – NICHE (November 2019, The Boston Gallery)
• Jel Suarez – small bones, holding a mountain (October 2020, West Gallery)
• Miguel Lorenzo Uy – I am that I am (March 2021, Underground Makati)

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Ateneo Art Awards 2019 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Keb Cerda - Super Nardo: False Profits (Untitled, Art at San Francisco, USA)
• Archie Oclos - Lupang Hinirang in the 2018 Thirteen Artists Awards (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Costantino Zicarelli - Years of Dust Will Build A Mountain (Artinformal Makati)

Embassy of Italy Purchase Prize Recipient:

• Doktor Karayom - Isla Inip in the 2018 Thirteen Artists Awards (Cultural Center of the Philippines)

People's Choice:

• Archie Oclos - Lupang Hinirang in the 2018 Thirteen Artists Awards (Cultural Center of the Philippines)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2019 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Zean Cabangis - Somewhere, Anywhere (Artinformal Makati)
• Lesley-Anne Cao - The hand, the secretary, a landscape, (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Ronyel Compra - Lutâ: Imprint of Lola Masyang’s House in Forest for the Trees (Fundacion Sansó)
• JC Jacinto - A Crack in Everything (Artinformal Makati)
• Lilianna Manahan – Frame in The Garden of Earthly Delights (Aphro, The Alley at Karrivin)
• Krista Nogueras - Lake Predicament (Artinformal Makati)
• Henrielle Baltazar Pagkaliwangan – Timestamps (Finale Art File)
• Jel Suarez - object reader (MO_Space)

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Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Ronson Culibrina – Talim (Blanc Gallery)
• Johanna Helmuth – Makeshift (Blanc Gallery)
• KoloWn – Low Pressured Area (Cultural Center of the Philippines)

Embassy of Italy Purchase Prize Recipient:

• Jel Suarez – Traces by Which We Remember (West Gallery)

People's Choice:

• Mars Bugaoan - Becoming (Artinformal)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Bea Camacho – Memento Obliviscere (MO_space)
• Dina Gadia – Situation Amongst the Furnishings (Silverlens)
• Ian Carlo Jaucian – Viral Automata (1335 Mabini)
• Robert Langenegger – Only Dog Can Judge Me (MO_Space)
• Issay Rodriguez - … (Silverlens)
• Ciron Señeres – Gray Horizon (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Elias Miles Villanueva – What’s Left of It (Pinto Art Museum)

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Ateneo Art Awards 2017 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Cian Dayrit - Exposition (Lopez Museum and Library)
• Gale Encarnacion - Blow Me (College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines Diliman)
• Costantino Zicarelli - Prelude to a Billion Years (Art Informal)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2017 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Catalina Africa - Studies on the Movement of Water (Finale Art File)
• Charles Buenconsejo - Name, Kind, Application, Date Opened, Date Added, Date Modified, Date Created, Size, Tags (Artinformal)
• Gino Bueza - Systems of Control (West Gallery)
• Zean Cabangis - Echoes (Artinformal, Discoveries Sector, Art Bassel Hong Kong)
• Kitty Kaburo - Life Jacket Under Your Seat (Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
• Doktor Karayom - Linya (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Czar Kristoff - Configurations (West Gallery)
• Leonardo Onia - Jr., Microscopic Hysteria (West Gallery)
• Nicole Tee - Quiet Punctuations (College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines Diliman)

Ateneo Art Awards 2016 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Martha Atienza - Study in Reality No. 3 (Silverlens)
• Rocky Cajigan - Museumified (Blanc Gallery)
• Nathalie Dagmang - Dito sa may Ilog ng Tumana: A Sensory Investigation on the Contradictory Relationship of Barangay Tumana with the Marikina River (UP CFA Thesis Show, 2015)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2016 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Buen Abrigo - Line of Flight (Blanc Gallery)
• Romina Diaz - Stagnant Energies (Finale Art File)
• Ian Fabro - Hurt Anatomies (Art Informal)
• Ian Carlo Jaucian - Emit No Evil (1335 Mabini)
• Leeroy New - <3U-lolz (Bencab Museum)
• Jose Luis Singson - Suspension of Disbelief (1335 Mabini)
• Ryan Villamael - Behold A City (Silverlens)
• Liv Vinluan - Cariño Brutal (Finale Art File)
• Paulo Vinluan - See Waves (Vargas Museum)

Ateneo Art Awards 2015 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Pio Abad - The Collection of Jane Ryan and William Saunders (Vargas Museum)
• Frank Callaghan - Dead Ends (Silverlens)
• Ryan Villamael - Isles (Silverlens)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2015 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Catalina Africa - Reverse Boomerangs and Other Exercises for Pleasure (1335 Mabini)
• Charles Buenconsejo - Unending Void (ArtInformal)
• Buen Calubayan - "Eternal Landscape", The Triumph of Philippine Art (Ayala Museum)
• Ian Carlo Jaucian - In the Year 2000 (Silverlens)
• Lui Medina - Lui Medina (ArtInformal)
• Veronica Peralejo - Pocket Universe (Art Informal)
• Luis Antonio Santos - Measuring Distance (Silverlens)
• Maria Taniguchi - "Untitled", Don't You Know Who I Am? (Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp)
• Derek Tumala - Sacred Geometry (The Drawing Room booth, Art fair Philippines 2015)

Ateneo Art Awards 2014 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Charles Buenconsejo - Destination Unknown (West Gallery)
• Leslie de Chavez - Complicated (Lopez Memorial Museum and Library)
• Maria Jeona Zoleta - The Unicorn Club (1335 Mabini)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2014 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Pio Abad - Every Weapon is a Tool if You Hold it Right (Silverlens)
• Zean Cabangis - Condestruct (Art Informal)
• Buen Calubayan - Spoliarium (Now Gallery)
• Vermont Coronel Jr. - Dreamworld (The Drawing Room, Singapore)
• Olivia d'Aboville - Sacred Geometry (Altro Mondo Arte Contemporanea)
• Cian Dayrit - The Bla-Bla Archaeological Complex (Vargas Museum)
• Lui Medina - Metamorphic Histories (Vargas Museum)
• Luis Antonio Santos - Nocturne (West Gallery)
• Jay Yao - Homecoming (Celestina)

Ateneo Art Awards 2013 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Charles Buenconsejo - Reality is a Hologram (ArtInformal)
• Buen Calubayan - Fressie Capulong (Blanc Peninsula)
• Raffy T. Napay - Thread Experience (West Gallery)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2013 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Pio Abad - Zabludowicz Collection Invites Pio Abad (Zabludowicz Collection, London)
• Allan Balisi - Hollow Spaces (West Gallery)
• Zean Cabangis - Goat Paths (Art Informal)
• Joey Cobcobo - Lola 101, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 (Avellana Gallery, Ortigas Foundation Inc. Library, Print Gallery Bencab Museum)
• Nikki Luna - Beat (Lopez Memorial Museum and Library)
• Joven Mansit - Ulat Panahon (Boston Gallery)
• Leeroy New - Monstrosities (Galleria Duemila)
• Ryan Villamael - Flatland (Silverlens) & Kosmik (West Gallery)

Ateneo Art Awards 2012 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Martha Atienza - Gilubong ang Akon Pusod sa Dagat (Office of Culture and Design, Bantayan Island)
• Riel Hilario - Perro Amoroso / It was a Paradisiacal State: The Body was allowed to be a body (Art Informal)
• Maria Taniguchi - Untitled (Celestial Motors) (Silverlens)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2012 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Zean Cabangis - Shade My Eyes and I Can't See You (Silverlens)
• Vermont Coronel - Spirit of a Place (The Drawing Room)
• Kawayan de Guia - A Lot of Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing (The Drawing Room)
• Patricia Eustaquio - Cloud Country (Silverlens)
• Dina Gadia - Regal Discomforts (Blanc Compound)
• Goldie Poblador - The Ghost in the Machine (Liongoren Gallery)
• Mervy Pueblo - Project: Stone Mediation (The Black Room, MCAD Whittier Studio's Gallery, USA)
• Mark Valenzuela - Zugzwang (Art Informal)
• MM Yu - Inventory (Silverlens)

Ateneo Art Awards 2011 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Bembol dela Cruz - House Blends (Blanc Compound)
• Kawayan de Guia - Bomba (Vargas Museum)
• Maria Taniguchi - Echo Studios (Vargas Museum)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2011 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Renato Barja Jr. - The Jungle and the Rain (Blanc Compound)
• Frank Callaghan - River of Our Dreams (Manila Contemporary)
• Olivia d'Aboville - New Frontiers: Olivia d'Aboville Chasm of Fantasies (Ayala Museum)
• Nona Garcia - Fractures (West Gallery)
• Sam Kiyoumarsi - Inalienable Dreamless (LOSTprojects)
• Tatong Recheta Torres - Make My Day! (Yarn Factory Art Projects, Tochigi Japan)
• Rodel Tapaya - Simple Depictions (Alliance Francaise de Manille Total Gallery)
• MM Yu - Waste Not Want Not (Finale Video Room, Finale Art File)
• Maria Jeona Zoleta - Sure Sure, Happy Happy, Picture Picture (20 Square)

Ateneo Art Awards 2010 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Leslie de Chavez - Buntong Hininga (Slab and 20 Square)
• Pow Martinez - 1 Billion Years (West Gallery)
• Mark Salvatus - Sungduan 5: Daloy ng Dunong (National Museum)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2010 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Frankie Callaghan - Dwelling (Silverlens)
• Joey Cobcobo - 7 Heads and 10 Horns (Avellana Art Gallery)
• Kiri Dalena - The Present Disorder is the Order of the Future (Mo_)
• Kawayan de Guia - Katas ng Pilipinas: God Knows Hudas Not Play (The Drawing Room)
• Patricia Eustaquio - Dear Sweet Filthy World (Silverlens)
• Riel Hilario - Aniwas (Art Informal)
• Leeroy New - Corpo Royal (The Drawing Room)
• Michelline Syjuco - Draped in Silk: The Journey of the Manton de Manila (Yuchengco Museum)
• Rodel Tapaya - Thrice Upon a Time: A Century of Story in the Art of the Philippines (Singapore Art Museum)

Ateneo Art Awards 2009 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Kiri Dalena - Keeping the Faith (Lopez Memorial Museum)
• Patrica Eustaquio - Death to the Major, Viva Minor (Slab)
• Leeroy New - Terratoma II (War of the Worlds) Singapore Biennale 2008 (Singapore City Hall)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2009 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Martha Atienza - Man in Suit (Green Papaya Art Projects)
• Allan Balisi - Spacing Out (Blanc Compound)
• Ringo Bunoan - Archiving Roberto Chabet (Vargas Museum)
• Joey Cobcobo - 8 Printmakers (Avellana Art Gallery)
• Kidlat de Guia - Sleeping White Elephants (Galleria Duemila)
• Christina Dy - Soaplands (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Goldie Poblador - The Perfume Bar: Collected Memories and Ephemeral Representations in Thesis Exhibition (Corredor Gallery, University of the Philippines Diliman)
• Pam Yan Santos - Like (Blanc Compound)
• Michelline Syjuco - Armadillon (Magnet Gallery, Bonifacio High Street)

Ateneo Art Awards 2008 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Poklang Anading - Fallen Map (Magnet Katipunan)
• Marina Cruz-Garcia - Embroidered Landscape of My Mother's Life: A Biography in Philippine Art Awards (National Museum)
• Kawayan de Guia - Incubator (The Drawing Room)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2008 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Marina Cruz-Garcia - Recollections (Art Informal) & Embodied Dolls in Sungduan Extension (Museum of Three Cultures, Cagayan de Oro)
• Christina Dy - Curtains Marching Carpet (Silverlens)
• Lyra Garcellano - Short Stories (Finale Art Gallery - Megamall)
• Robert Langenegger - Irish Bull of the Mother and Child (Finale Art Gallery - Megamall)
• Rachel Rillo - Manila (Silverlens)
• Mark Salvatus - Wrapped (National Art Studio, Goyang, South Korea)
• Mac Valdezco - Droplets in The 8th (Avellana Art Gallery)
• Mark Valenzuela - Warzone (Galleria Duemila)

Ateneo Art Awards 2007 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Lyle Buencamino - A Bowtie for John Lyle (Mag:net ABS)
• Wawi Navarroza - Saturnine: A Collection of Portraits, Creatures, Glass & Shadow (Silverlens)
• MM Yu - Thoughts Collected, Recollected (Finale Art Gallery)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2007 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Racquel De Loyola - 7A * 11D International Festival (Toronto, Canada)
• Bembol Dela Cruz - Measures (Finale Gallery)
• Nona Garcia - Girls Will Not Be Girls (West Gallery) & Strange Familiarity (West Gallery)
• Winner Jumalon - Untitled Stills (Blanc Gallery)
• Yasmin Sison - Unmade (Mag:net Paseo)
• Jay Ticar - Frangible Armor Piercing A Single Round Bolt Action Bull Barrel (Mag:net Gallery Katipunan)
• Mac Valdezco - Small Complete Units (Avellana Art Gallery)
• Jevijoe Vitug - Capitali-sing (Finale Art Gallery)

Ateneo Art Awards 2006 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Poklong Anading - Anonymity (Finale Art Gallery)
• Mideo Cruz - Banquet (Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo Cultural Center of the Philippines & Future of Imagination 3, Singapore)
• Maya Muñoz - Closer (Hiraya Gallery)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2006 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Yason Banal - 18 Stations to Death and Dementia (Silver Lens Gallery)
• Bembol Dela Cruz - The History of Things (Mag:net ABS-CBN)
• Wawi Navarroza - Polysaccharide: The Dollhouse Drama (Blacksoup Project Artspace)
• Lena Cobangbang - All that Heaven Allows (Finale Art Gallery)
• Marina Cruz - Kambal (Boston Gallery)
• Anton del Castillo - Under One Roof (Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Jay Ticar - Pressure Points (Mag:net ABS-CBN)
• Rodel Tapaya - Lunan (Boston Gallery)
• Jevijoe Vitug - Lessons from the Masters (Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo Cultural Center of the Philippines)

Ateneo Art Awards 2005 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Ronald Ventura - Human Study (The Big & Small Art Company)
• Annie Cabigting - 100 pcs. (Finale Art Gallery)
• Eric Zamuco - A Fine Line (West Gallery)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2005 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Isa Lorenzo - Healing Spaces (Silver Lens Gallery)
• Mariano Ching - Dance This Mess Around (UFO Gallery)
• Mac Valdezco - 100% Cotton (Avellana Art Gallery)
• Carlo Angelo Saavedra - Postcards From The End of The World (Mag:net Gallery)
• Norman Dreo - Unang Hakbang Patungo sa Europa (Renaissance Art Gallery)
• Elmer Roslin - Lust in Paint (Boston Gallery)
• Jayson Oliveria - Killafoto (Green Papaya Art Projects)
• Luisito Cordero - Pathology for Boredom (Green Papaya Art Projects)
• Rodel Tapaya Garcia - Balangkas (Boston Gallery)

Ateneo Art Awards 2004 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Winners:

• Jayson Oliveria - Instinct vs. Learning (Mag:net Gallery)
• Luisito Cordero - Building Bridges (Big Sky Mind)
• Geraldine Javier - Slipping (Finale Art Gallery)

Other artists shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2004 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art include:

• Ronald Anading - Indistinct Conversations (Finale Art Gallery)
• Lexygius Calip - Soul Shower (Avellana Art Gallery)
• Kiko Escora - Body Parts (The Drawing Room)
• Troy Ignacio - Disintegrated (The Drawing Room)
• Lindslee - Cause and Effect Series (The Drawing Room)
• Christian Tamondong - Work on Paper (The Drawing Room)
• Maria Taniguchi - New Domestic Animals (Green Papaya Art Projects)
• Ronald Ventura - Dead End Images (The Big & Small Art Gallery)