IN FOCUS : JOEY VENDIOLA COBCOBO

Joey Cobcobo is a multi-awarded artist working on painting, printmaking and woodcarving. He combines these disciplines in assemblages and installations. Cobcobo’s ethnicity (he is an Igorot who has lived and studied in Mandaluyong City since his early youth) has its influence in the endemic and actuated tensions apparent in his work. His art combines contemporary and transmedia approaches to traditional art practices, revealing an introspective interest in the critique and construct of a moral/ethical re-imaging of what is endemic and prevalent in social and cultural practices.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

TERTIARY
2005-2006
Technological University of the Philippines
Completed 18 units in Professional Subjects
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education

2004-2000
Technological University of the Philippines
Bachelor of Fine Arts-Advertising
March 2004-2000
Honors: Cum laude

AWARDS RECEIVED:

2008
Juror’s Choice Award - Figuras Painting Competition 2008

2004
Honorable Mention - First P.D.S.I. Drawing Competition organized by Big & Small Art Co.
3rd Place - FEU 2nd Annual Inter-University On-the-spot Painting Competition

2003
Grand Prize - National Piñana Art Competition “The Filipino Soul”
Runner-Up - 3rd Art Petron National Painting Competition. (Watercolor category)
1st Honorable Mention - 1st Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) & AAP Painting Competition.
2nd Place - UST Inter-University On the Spot Painting Competition
2nd Place - National Kidney and Transplant Painting Competition
2nd Place - PHASE1 (University Level) PLDT-DPC Telephone Directory Cover 17th Visual Art National Competition.

2002
Grand Prize - 2nd Art Petron National Students Painting Competition.
3rd Place – 14th Veterans Memorial Medical Center Inter-Collegiate Art Competition

SOLO EXHIBITION:

“Evangelio”
2nd Solo Exhibit
Big& Small Art Co.
SM Megamall, Mandaluyong
May 1-10, 2008

“Black Saturday”
1st Solo Exhibiti
Big & Small Art Co.
SM Megamall, Mandaluyong
November 24 –December 4, 2007