Ateneo Art Awards 2019

The Ateneo Art Awards 2019 exhibit continues at the second floor lobby and third floor galleries of Ateneo Art Gallery. See up close the works of all winners and other shortlisted artists for the Fernando Zobél Prizes for Visual Art and shortlisted writers for the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism.

ATENEO ART AWARDS 2019 - FERNANDO ZÓBEL PRIZES FOR VISUAL ART WINNERS

• Keb Cerda - Super Nardo: False Profits (Untitled, Art at San Francisco, USA)

Recipient of the Liverpool Hope University Artist Residency Grant in Liverpool, UK.

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

Recipient of the Artesan Gallery+Studio Artist Residency Grant in Singapore

• Costantino Zicarelli - Years of Dust Will Build A Mountain (Artinformal Makati)

Recipient of the La Trobe University Artist Residency Grant in Bendigo, Australia

ATENEO ART AWARDS 2019 - EMBASSY OF ITALY PURCHASE PRIZE RECIPIENT

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

2019 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)

ATENEO ART AWARDS 2019 - PURITA KALAW - LEDESMA PRIZES IN ART CRITICISM WINNER

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 2018 – 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)

The Ateneo Art Awards 2019 exhibit runs until 23 October 2019 at the Jose Mari Chan Lobby, Fredesvinda Almeda Consunji Gallery, Ambeth R Ocampo Gallery, Elizabeth Gokongwei Gallery, and Alicia P Lorenzo Gallery.

The Ateneo Art Awards is co-presented by Ateneo Art Gallery, Shangri-la Plaza and Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation Inc.; in partnership with Areté, The Philippine Star, ArtAsiaPacific Magazine, Artesan Gallery + Studio, La Trobe University, Liverpool Hope University, Metro Society, the Embassy of Italy, the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, and with support from Artline, Pebeo, Lamy, Derwent and Rain or Shine.