Purita Kalaw - Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism

2022 Ateneo Art Awards - Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism Winners:

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - ArtAsiaPacific

• Dondie Casanova - The Forest Fire at the Brutal Beauty: Jinggoy Buensuceso's KAINGIN

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - The Philippine Star

• Nicole Soriano-Lao - The Insistence of Hope

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - Katipunan Journal

• Gian Carlo Delgado - Mga palagay sa panahon, espasyo, at gunita: Pagturing sa eksibisyong “Gintong Liwayway: Sining ng Progresibong Pagbabago"

Other writers shortlisted for the 2022 Ateneo Art Awards – Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism include:

English Category:

• Francesca Locsin - Non-Fungible Threats
• Kaye O’Yek - The Weight of Incandescence
• Nicole Primero - The Virtual Hug, A Dance
• Czyka Tumaliuan - Institutions Are Burning; Load Na Dito!

Filipino Category:

• Roy Cagalingan - Sa Mga Nilisan ng Panlasa
• Jord Earving Gadingan - Tao sa Tao
• Vladimeir Gonzales - Teatrong Ergonic sa Panahon ng Pandemya

Excerpts from the writings of the 2022 Ateneo Art Awards Shortlisted Writers

2021 Ateneo Art Awards - Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism Winners:

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - ArtAsiaPacific

• Portia Placino - Forging on by the Mountainside

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - The Philippine Star

• Carla T. Gamalinda - Art and the inevitable crisis of the screens

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - Katipunan Journal

• Jaffy V. Fajardo - Nandiyan lang kultura at mga sining

Other writers shortlisted for the 2021 Ateneo Art Awards – Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism include:

English Category:

• Allyn Canja – The Internet Knows No Region: How artists from Western Visayas broke barriers during a global pandemic
• Kiko del Rosario – Piercing Loss, Streaming Desire
• Elizabeth Ruth Deyro - The Artist’s Social Responsibility in the Time of Crisis: On Leslie de Chavez’s ‘I Like Art Fairs and Art Fairs Like Me’
• Alee Garibay - Birthing an Alternative Culture amidst a Crisis

Filipino Category:

• Jord Earving Gadingan - Habang Wala Pang Matino
• Mikka Ann Cabangon - Ang Hikayat sa Pag-aaral ng Sining-bayan

Excerpts from the writings of the 2021 Ateneo Art Awards Shortlisted Writers

Ateneo Art Awards 2019 - Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism Winners:

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - ArtAsiaPacific

• John Alexis Balaguer – Everywhere is Here: The Museum as Heterotopia in Mark Lewis Higgins’ Gold in Our Veins (On Gold in our Veins: Mark Lewis Lim Higgins at the Ayala Museum)

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - The Philippine Star

• Mariah Reodica – Saltwater Trajectories: Bisan Tubig Di Magbalon, and Viva Excon as Cartographer (On Bisan Tubig Di Magbalon (Don’t Even Bring Water) at Viva Excon Capiz 2018)

Other writers shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2019 – Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism include:

• Janina Gwen Bautista – “Nasaan ka na, Mara-bini?” Drawing Out Women and Comics Out of the Periphery (On Nasaan Ka Na, Mara-Bini? Francisco V Coching Centennial Exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Jeckree Mission – A Confrontation with Gendered Bodies in Southeast Asia (On Gendered Bodies in Southeast Asia at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila)

Excerpts from the writings of the 2019 Ateneo Art Awards Shortlisted Writers

Ateneo Art Awards 2018 - Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism Winners:

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - ArtAsiaPacific

• Alec Madelene Abarro - An Organized Chaos: Navigating the Looban (On Urban Labyrinth at the Ayala Museum)

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - The Philippine Star

• Mary Jessel Duque - Pacita Abad: A Million Times a Woman, an Artist (On Pacita Abad: A Million Things to Say at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design)

Other writers shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism include:

• Juan Paolo Colet - Life in the Labyrinth (On Urban Labyrinth at the Ayala Museum)
• Jayvee Del Rosario - Ossifying the Abstract (On Alfonso Ossorio: A Survey 1940 – 1989 at the Ayala Museum)
• Sabrina Jeongco - Pacita Abad Has a Million Things to Say (On Pacita Abad: A Million Things to Say at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design)
• Jose Carlos Joaquin Singson - Bread and Circuses in Time Roiling and Churning (On Vic Delotavo: Posters for Philippine Cinema at the Vargas Museum)

Special Citation:

• Maria Lourdes Garcellano - Sinehan sa isang museo: Karatula O Obra? (On Vic Delotavo: Posters for Philippine Cinema at the Vargas Museum)

Excerpts from the writings of the 2018 Ateneo Art Awards Shortlisted Writers and Special Citation

Ateneo Art Awards 2017 - Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism Winners:

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - ArtAsiaPacific

• Josephine V. Roque - Transits of Meaning

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - The Philippine Star

• Arianna Mercado - Dalena’s Curtain Call

Other writers shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2017 – Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism include:

• Christian Benitez - History is Form: On Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “The Serenity of Madness”
• Carlo Pacolor Garcia - Beaded Gestures
• John Kenneth Paranada - Tie A String but Cut it Right in the Middle
• Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol - Equivocal Beliefs: Natee Utarit at Ayala Museum

Ateneo Art Awards 2016 - Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism Winners:

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - ArtAsiaPacific

• Dominic Zinampan - Chambers of Reflection: A Critique on Mark Justiniani’s Reverb

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - The Philippine Star

• Pristine de Leon - Owning the Image: Exploring Lopez Museum’s political cartoons and the pleasures of resistance

Other writers shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2016 – Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism include:

• Mariel Aglipay - The River Runs Red
• Jasmine Cruz - The I, the Art and a Millenial’s Visual Vocabulary
• Par Patacsil - Allegories of Ambivalence, Ascendancy and Dissent in Drawing the Lines
• Carlos Quijon, Jr. - Faced with the Abyss

Ateneo Art Awards 2015 - Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism

Winner:

• Paula S. Acuin - "Lakas ng Loob: Re-introducing Cesar Legaspi," on Cesar Legaspi: The Brave Modern

Other writers shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2015 – Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism include:

• Renato Paolo V. Aguila - Rallying to Standstill: A Review of Ethos Bathos, Pathos
• Mia Angela A. Dagsaan - "Fictions of Word and Image," A Review of Propaganda
• Paolo Miguel G. Tiausas - On Curating Futures, A Review of Propaganda

Ateneo Art Awards 2014 - Purita Kalaw - Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism

Winner:

• Carlomar Daoana - Loss As Impetus Of Discovery: A Review Of "Complicated"Loss As Impetus Of Discovery: A Review Of "Complicated"

Other writers shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2014 – Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism include:

• Renato Paolo V. Aguila - Re-Reading History: A Review Of Complicated, Lopez Museum
• Gian Cruz - Fragments Of The Philippine Contemporary: A Triumph of Kitsch, Anguish, And Ambiguity
• Lisa Ito - Re-Presenting The Present: Mapping History Through The Philippine Contemporary
• Cocoy Lumbao - Loose Continuity: On Manila Metropolitan Museum's Philippine Contemporary
• Alice Sarmiento - How Did We Get Here? Scaling The Past And The Possible At The Met