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A Fine Arts senior at the University of the Philippines. Born on March 25, 1986 in Manila, Philippines, he is slowly establishing a reputation as one of the most promising emerging artists in the country today. Abrigo was a two time-finalist in the PLDT DPC Annual Visual Arts Competition held in 2005 and 2006. In 2005, he was also a finalist in the Metrobank Art and Design Excellence Awards. That year he also earned seventh place distinction in the Shell National Students Art Competition. Abrigo’s highly successful breakout solo exhibit, “Escape,” held at e galerie in 2007 was very well received by art collectors and critics alike. “Abrigo may be young in this industry,” the Philippine Daily Inquirer observed, “but his insights are as old as our collective memories.” Of his 2008 second solo exhibit, “Enigma,” Johnathan Libarios Rondina wrote thus for the Philippine Daily Inquirer: “For sure Abrigo’s brushwork is clean and certain, but his gift lies in his vision of art-as-text and of the canvass as a magic slate of meanings. This time around, Abrigo, who once covered a car with cowhide for his undergraduate thesis, concentrates on building collages in mixed media where pop icons, historical figures, ideologues, avant-gardes, starlets, Bolsheviks, geishas and comic book heroes are re/appropriated and together make the strangest of bedfellows in fluid, hybridized narratives set against a landscape of industrial metal and concrete. The resulting pastiche is both whimsical and intellectual where each image is simultaneously de/recontextualized.” SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION: 2007 “Escape” - e Galerie, Serendra, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig 2008 “Enigma” - e Galerie, Serendra, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION: 2006 "Dig It", A.R.I.A.S., Makati City "KamoKamo", Penguin Cafe, Manila "Un Granfaloon", Penguin Cafe, Manila 2009 "MANILART'09", NBC Tent, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City "Looking For Juan", Cultural Center of The Philippines, Manila 2010 “Fast Forward” Galerie Joaquin, The Regent Hotel, Cuscaden Rd., Singapore "El Prado Project", Ayala Museum, Makati City "MANILART'10", SMX Convention Center, Pasay City AWARDS: 2005 Finalist Metrobank Art and Design Excellence Awards Finalist PLDT DPC Annual Visual Arts Competition 7th Place Shell National Students Art Competiton 2006 Finalist PLDT DPC Annual Visual Arts Competition



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