SIO MONTERA (Dionisio “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.
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Exhibits:
Itum Ug Puti
September 21 - October 9 Sining Kamalig
