Who will win in this year’s Ateneo Art Awards? Join us for the announcement of winners on August 26, Sunday, 4PM at the Suthira B Zalamea Lobby, Arts Wing, Areté.
Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art Shortlist:
• Mars Bugaoan – Becoming (Artinformal)
• Bea Camacho – Memento Obliviscere (MO_space)
• Ronson Culibrina – Talim (Blanc Gallery)
• Dina Gadia – Situation Amongst the Furnishings (Silverlens)
• Johanna Helmuth – Makeshift (Blanc Gallery)
• Ian Carlo Jaucian – Viral Automata (1335 Mabini)
• KoloWn – Low Pressured Area (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Robert Langenegger – Only Dog Can Judge Me (MO_Space)
• Issay Rodriguez – … (Silverlens)
• Ciron Señeres – Gray Horizon (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Jel Suarez – Traces by Which We Remember (West Gallery)
• Elias Miles Villanueva – What’s Left of It (Pinto Art Museum)
Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism Shortlist:
• Alec Madelene Abarro – An Organized Chaos: Navigating the Looban (On Urban Labyrinth at the Ayala Museum)
• Juan Paolo Colet – Life in the Labyrinth (On Urban Labyrinth at the Ayala Museum)
• Jayvee Del Rosario – Ossifying the Abstract (On Alfonso Ossorio: A Survey 1940 – 1989 at the Ayala Museum)
• Mary Jessel Duque – Pacita Abad: A Million Times a Woman, an Artist (On Pacita Abad: A Million Things to Say at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design)
• Sabrina Jeongco – Pacita Abad Has a Million Things to Say (On Pacita Abad: A Million Things to Say at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design)
• Jose Carlos Joaquin Singson – Bread and Circuses in Time Roiling and Churning (On Vic Delotavo: Posters for Philippine Cinema at the Vargas Museum)
Special Citation:
• Maria Lourdes Garcellano – Sinehan sa isang museo: Karatula O Obra? (On Vic Delotavo: Posters for Philippine Cinema at the Vargas Museum)
In anticipation of the announcement of winners on August 26, guests are invited to visit the Ateneo Art Awards 2018 exhibit that features more works from the shortlisted artists and essay excerpts from the shortlisted writers. A People’s Choice poll at the museum front desk was created to encourage visitors to cast their votes for their favorite exhibition. The artist with the highest number of votes by August 26 will receive an incentive during the awarding ceremony.
The Ateneo Art Awards 2018 exhibit is on view from August 10 to November 4 at the Alicia P Lorenzo Gallery, Ambeth R Ocampo Gallery, Elizabeth Gokongwei Gallery and The Curve Gallery located at 3F Arts Wing, Arete, Ateneo de Manila University.
