The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) has announced the 2024 Thirteen Artists Award (TAA) recipients, recognizing the contributions of young Filipino visual artists who defy the boundaries of contemporary Philippine art.
A total of 108 nominations were reviewed by the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division (VAMD) to select the winners. The selection committee included well-renowned artists Phyllis Zaballero, Antipas Delotavo, Buen Calubayan, Wawi Navarroza, and CCP VAMD Officer-In-Charge Rica Estrada Uson.
Meet this year’s Thirteen Artists Awardees:
- Catalina Africa, a multidisciplinary artist exploring shapeshifting and earth-channeling
- Denver Garza, a visual artist examining the psyche and psychosocial dimensions through art
- Russ Ligtas, a Cebu-born artist reimagining the Filipino body as a mythological matrix
- Ella Mendoza, a ceramic artist who blends traditional and contemporary vessel art
- Henrielle Baltazar Pagkaliwangan, a historian-artist documenting narratives through prints and drawings
- Issay Rodriguez, a visionary artist focused on humanism, ecology, and interdisciplinary collaborations
- Luis Antonio Santos, a painter and photographer exploring memory and identity
- Joshua Serafin, a multidisciplinary artist integrating queer politics and performance
- Jel Suarez, a collage artist reinterpreting visual phenomena
- Tekla Tamoria, a textile artist inspired by costume design and nature’s fractals
- Derek Tumala, an innovator in ecological world-making and emerging technologies
- Vien Valencia, a community-centered artist redefining archiving practices
- Liv Vinluan, a historian-artist reflecting on mortality and cyclical histories
Now in its 54th year, the triennial awards began as a CCP Museum project led by curator Roberto Chabet to highlight Filipino artists redefining and revitalizing Philippine art.
Originally organized biennially during the period 1970-1980 and periodically in the years after that, it was revived in 2000 and converted into a triennial program.
For more information, visit the Thirteen Artists’ website and follow the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Facebook page.
View the 2024 Thirteen Artists Award’s works.
Photos: Cultural Center of the Philippines
— Toby Denise Concepcion
