Ateneo Art Awards 2018

Now on its 15th year, the Ateneo Art Awards continues to recognize the talent of emerging visual artists and art critics in the Philippines. It commemorates the founding benefactor of the gallery, Fernando Zóbel, and Art Association of the Philippines founder and art patron, Purita Kalaw – Ledesma.

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)

Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – Embassy of Italy Purchase Prize:

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

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

• Mars Bugaoan - Becoming (Artinformal)
• 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)

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

• Alec Madelene Abarro - An Organized Chaos: Navigating the Looban (On Urban Labyrinth at the Ayala Museum) for Art Asia Pacific Magazine
• 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) for The Philippine Star

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)

A special citation was given to Maria Lourdes Garcellano for her essay Sinehan sa isang museo: Karatula O Obra? (On Vic Delotavo: Posters for Philippine Cinema at the Vargas Museum).