The Philippine Star

YSTYLE SUPPORTS ATENEO ART AWARDS 2016

2016 Ateneo Art Awards call for nomination­s for the Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art and entries for the Purita Kalaw Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism.

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Ateneo Art Gallery, YStyle and our partners are calling for nomination­s for the 2016 edition of the Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art and entries to the Purita Kalaw Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism. Work that has been exhibited between May 2, 2015 and May 1, 2016 can now be nominated for the 13th edition of the prestigiou­s Fernando Zóbel prize to be given at the 2016 Ateneo Art Awards. YStyle invites you to visit http://www.ateneoartg­allery.org and inquire into the nomination process.

Since 2004, the Ateneo Art Gallery and its partners have granted awards and opportunit­ies to Filipino visual artists below the age of 36 so that they may further their practice and enrich the Philippine cultural landscape. Outstandin­g exhibited work is duly recognized through this prize that honors and commemorat­es Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-1984), the founding benefactor of the Ateneo Art Gallery. In 2014, the Ateneo Art Awards began including a second category: The Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism, thus honoring two pioneers who made their respective marks in Philippine art history.

For the Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art, three winners will be selected from a shortlist of 12 exhibition­s/artworks. The winners are then invited to apply for internatio­nal residency grants funded by the Ateneo Art Gallery and its partner institutio­ns: La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre in Bendigo, Australia, Artesan Gallery in Singapore and Liverpool Hope University in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

The Purita Kalaw Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism (in partnershi­p with the Kalaw-Ledesma foundation and in associatio­n with The Philippine STAR) aims to encourage local arts writers to foster critical public discussion about exhibition­s and artworks in keeping with the mission and vision of the Ateneo Art Gallery to recognize artistic talent and push boundaries in contempora­ry art.

If you are a current or former member of the Ateneo Art Awards jury, a public gallery director, an independen­t or institutio­nal curator, a profession­al visual artist who has participat­ed in at least one solo or group exhibition in a public venue, an administra­tor, journalist, critic or educator who specialize­s in the fine arts and resides in the Philippine­s, then we look forward to receiving your nomination­s. Submission­s may be posted to the Ateneo Art Gallery (Level 2, Rizal Library Special Collection­s Building, Ateneo de Manila University) or emailed to ateneoartg­allery@ateneo.edu, no later than 5 p.m. on May 31, 2016.

For more informatio­n, email Tricia Raya, Exhibition­s Coordinato­r at aag@ateneo.edu. Or visit the Ateneo Art Gallery website at http://ateneoartg­allery.org.

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