Filipino Conceptual Artist JoeBau has seen art in the Philippines evolve for over 50 years. He received his Bachelors in Fine Arts, majoring in Advertising from the University of the East. Early in his career, he served as a set designer for the CCP (Cultural Center of the Philippines). From then on, he participated in their major shows.
“I was only 21 when CCP discovered me. They thought of my work as non-conventional. That is what they wanted, for people to look at my work and think “Art ba iyan?”. He proudly shares.
He tried to shift his career throughout the decades; working in big advertising agencies, as a textile designer, for the government, and even teaching summer workshops. But as artists come and go, and art trends change by the season, he has remained true to his core. He inevitably comes back to avant-garde and conceptual installations.
JoeBau is a recipient of the CCP’s Thirteen Artist Awards (1972) and was awarded as one of the 5 Contemporary Sculptors (1979). He has had solo shows at the CCP, West Gallery, Galleria Duemila, Calle Wright Gallery, MO Space, and currently at Modeka Art. He also participated in group shows at the Festival Contemporary Asian Art Show in Fukuoka, Japan (1980), and was part of The 70s / Objects, Photographs, and Documents exhibition at Arete Ateneo Art Gallery (2018), to name a few.
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