June 10, 2011
ATENEO ART AWARDS 2011 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
The Ateneo Art Gallery, widely recognized as the country's first modern art museum, is pleased to announce the 12 artists short-listed for the Ateneo Art Awards 2011: Anatomy of Autonomy. They are:
Renato Barja Jr. for The Jungle and the Rain
Solo Exhibition, Blanc Compound
15 January - 5 February 2011
Frank Callaghan for River of Our Dreams
Solo Exhibition, Manila Contemporary
2 - 24 October 2010
Olivia d'Aboville New Frontiers: Olivia d'Aboville Chasm of Fantasies
Solo Exhibition, Ayala Museum
15 July - 12 September 2010
Kawayan de Guia for Bomba
Solo Exhibition, Jorge Vargas Museum
15 June - 18 December 2010
Bembol dela Cruz for House Blends
Solo Exhibition, Blanc Compound
9 - 30 April 2011
Nona Garcia for Fractures
Solo Exhibition, West Gallery
27 July - 14 August 2010
Sam Kiyomarsi for Inalienable Dreamless
Solo Exhibition, Lost Projects
16 March - 20 April 2011
Tatong Recheta Torres for Make My Day!
Solo Exhibition, Yarn Factory Art Projects, Tochigi Japan (Second Life SIM)
21 June 2010 onwards
Maria Taniguchi for Echo Studies
Solo Exhibition, Jorge Vargas Museum
30 March to 28 May 2011
Rodel Tapaya for Simple Depictions
Group Exhibition, Alliance Francaise de Manille Total Gallery
25 November - 16 December 2010
MM Yu for Waste Not Want Not
Solo Exhibition, Finale Video Room, Finale Art File
7 - 30 May 2010
Maria Jeona Zoleta for Sure Sure, Happy Happy, Picture Picture
Solo Exhibition, 20 Square (SLab)
7 - 31 July 2010
Established in 2004 to honor the memory of its founding benefactor Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-1984), whose support of young Filipino visual artists left an indelible mark in Philippine art history, the Ateneo Art Awards are given to Filipino visual artists below the age of 36 for outstanding works in an exhibition between 2 May 2010 and 1 May 2011.
On its eighth year, the Ateneo Art Awards takes the theme "Anatomy of Autonomy," dissecting and surveying artistic thought in the contemporary Philippine art scene. Unbound by any cultural, social, academic or even aesthetic dogma, the creative spirit of young Filipino visual artists is duly recognized.
From the 12 shortlisted exhibitions/artworks, 3 are chosen as winners. The winning artists are then invited to apply for international residency grants funded by the Ateneo Art Gallery and its partner institutions: Common Room Networks Foundation in Bandung, Indonesia, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre in Bendigo, Australia, Artesan Gallery in Singapore, Art Omi in New York, USA and Liverpool Hope University in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
The Ateneo Art Awards are presented by the Ateneo Art Gallery, Shangri-la Plaza, SMART, Metro Society, Y-style of the Philippine Star, and the New York Art Project, funded by Marcel Crespo.
The works of the short-listed artists will be exhibited at the Grand Atrium of the Shangri-la Plaza, Edsa corner Shaw Boulevard from 5-15 August 2011 and at the Ateneo Art Gallery, Level 2 Rizal Library Special Collections Building, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City from 20 August – 10 September 2011. The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on 11 August 2010, 6pm at the Grand Atrium of the Shangri-La Plaza. For more information, please contact Ian Jaucian, Ateneo Art Awards Project Coordinator, at 426-6488 or email ijaucian@ateneo.edu.
