About the artist:
SIO MONTERA (Dennis E. Montera), a Cebuano visual artist earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the Philippines (UP) Visayas-Cebu in 1996 and proceeded to earning a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the UP Diliman College of Fine Arts in October 2004. After completing his graduate studies (MFA, Studio Arts 2004) at the College of Fine Arts in the University of the Philippines (U.P. Diliman Campus), he is now currently an assistant professor in the Fine Arts Program of U.P. Cebu College Campus where he first served as member of the faculty as a part-time lecturer in 1996. Sio is also the Program Coordinator of the said academic program and handles art history, art theory, techniques, materials, research methods, and thesis courses.
SIO MONTERA (Dennis E. Montera), a Cebuano visual artist earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the Philippines (UP) Visayas-Cebu in 1996 and proceeded to earning a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the UP Diliman College of Fine Arts in October 2004. After completing his graduate studies (MFA, Studio Arts 2004) at the College of Fine Arts in the University of the Philippines (U.P. Diliman Campus), he is now currently an assistant professor in the Fine Arts Program of U.P. Cebu College Campus where he first served as member of the faculty as a part-time lecturer in 1996. Sio is also the Program Coordinator of the said academic program and handles art history, art theory, techniques, materials, research methods, and thesis courses.
Despite working in the academe, Sio balances his time as an active menber in the national and local art community where he regularly mounts an annual solo show and group exhibitions featuring his major works. He is also currently a member of the National Committee on Visual Arts of the Philippine National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
For the past decade Sio's work has been profoundly non-objective and explores the use of composite media combined ingeniously with industrial construction techniques and processes. The artist mounts regular solo exhibitions at the art walk in SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City in Metro Manila and at the SM Art Center in his hometown of Cebu. He is also one of the founding members of the art group "Tuslob-Buwa", was a former chairperson of PUSOD, Inc. (The Open Organization of Cebu Visual Artists), and an active member of the Visyas Islands Visual Artists Association (VIVAA). Sio is also the Project Director of the SM Summer Art School, an annual summer art-workshop for kids (every April to May) at the Trade Hall of SM City Cebu. Montera was recently awarded a fifth place finalist award in the recent concluded 2009 AAP-ECCA Abstract Painting Competition.
Awards:
5th Place, AAP-EECA Abstract Painting Competition, February 2009
Ramon Durano Professorial Chair Award, U.P in the Visayas, Ilioilo City, Philippines, December 2006
Semi-Finalist, Philippine Art Awards 2001, Metropolitan Museum, Pasay City, Philippines
Grand Prize, Jose T. Joya Awards, Non-Objective Painting Category, U.P. in the Visayas Cebu College 1993
Grand Prize, Jose T. Joya Awards, Non-objective Painting Category, U.P. in the Visayas Cebu College 1992
Second Prize, Jose T. Joya Awards, Representational Painting Category, U.P. in the Visayas Cebu College 1991
Solo Exhibits:
"Free-Form", Art Center, SM City Cebu, Cebu City, August 15-28, 2007
"AbstracSIOn", Bluewater Gallery, Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort, Mactan Island, Cebu, October 20 - November 17, 2006
“Evolution”, Art Center, SM City Cebu, Cebu City, January 27- February 9, 2006
“Fusion Trends”, featured artist of BLIMS furniture exhibit, Activity Center Lobby, Ayala Center Cebu, July 14-August 2, 2005
“Consciousness”, SM Art Center, Cebu City, February 4-16, 2005
“Recent Works”, Renaissance Gallery, 4th Level SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, July 28-August 12, 2004
“Penitensya”, Curated by Nestor Vinluan, Little Theater Lobby, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Pasay City, March 28 -April 22, 2004
“One-Man-Sio”, First Solo Exhibit, Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Convention Center, July 2-30, 2000
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