CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: ATENEO ART AWARDS 2025 FERNANDO ZÓBEL PRIZES FOR VISUAL ART

The Ateneo Art Gallery is now accepting early nominations for the Ateneo Art Awards 2025 Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art! File qualified exhibitions held between 2 May 2023 to the present via Google Form (https://go.ateneo.net/FZA2025)

Initiated in 2004 as an annual program by the Ateneo Art Gallery, the Ateneo Art Awards recognize fresh approaches to art making. Today, the Ateneo Art Awards has evolved into a contemporary art prize that has seen the rise of new visual artists and writers in the continuously growing art ecosystem through two prizes: the Ateneo Art Awards - Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art (FZA) and the Ateneo Art Awards - Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism (PKL).

To further promote contemporary art practice and enrich the Philippine cultural landscape, the Ateneo Art Gallery and its partners give recognition and opportunities to Filipino visual artists below the age of 36 through the Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art. Additionally, the FZA is now a biennial program covering two exhibition cycles between May 2023-2024, and May 2024-2025. The Prizes are given to four (4) artists from a shortlist of twelve (12). Winners will be eligible for local and foreign residency grants funded by the Ateneo Art Gallery in partnership with artist communities in Baguio, Quezon, Zambales, Negros Occidental, Melbourne, Liverpool, Singapore, and Toronto. The selection of residency grant recipients will be made by the host institutions.

NOMINATION GUIDELINES

1. ELIGIBILITY
   1. Citizenship and Age: The visual artist must be a Filipino citizen below 36 years old during the opening date of the nominated exhibition;
   2. Exhibition Cycle:
      • Exhibitions that took place between 2 May 2023 to 1 May 2024; and
      • Exhibitions that took place between 2 May 2024 to 1 May 2025
   3. The artist may be nominated for a solo exhibition or his/her participation in a group exhibition.
2. Visual art is defined, for the purpose of the Ateneo Art Awards, as paintings, drawings, original fine prints, photographs, sculptures, assemblages, installations, performance, media-based works (sound, film, video, computer and other technologies).
3. NOMINATORS: Those eligible to nominate for the Ateneo Art Awards - Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art are former members of the Ateneo Art Awards Jury, museum directors or curators, gallerists, independent curators, professional visual artists (must have participated in at least one solo or group exhibition in a public venue), art administrators, art journalists, or art educators residing in the Philippines.
4. Self-nominations will not be accepted.
5. Multiple nominations from one nominator are allowed.
6. One Google Form must be accomplished PER ARTIST’S EXHIBITION.
7. DOCUMENTATION
   1. Nominators’ personal documentation (either in digital video or image formats) of their visit in the exhibition to be nominated is encouraged, but not required;
   2. Photos and/or videos of the nominated exhibitions should be collated in a Google Drive folder or WeTransfer link at the field provided in the dedicated Google Forms for the FZA ’23-’25 nominations.
8. Nominations must be submitted on/or before 11:59 PM of 31 May 2025, SATURDAY.
9. All decisions made by the Jury with regard to the qualification of the nominated visual artist, the artworks submitted for consideration and the Ateneo Art Awards 2025 shortlist, winners, and residency grants, are final.
10. The awarding ceremony is slated for September 2025. Further details will be announced through the Ateneo Art Gallery website and social media channels.

For inquiries, you may email our Exhibitions Coordinators, Roan or Stephanie, at fza.aag@ateneo.edu.