Amorsolo, Pablo BIOGRAPHY
Pablo Amorsolo was born in Daet, Camarines Norte to husband and wife Pedro Amorsolo and Bonifacia Cueto. When he was still eight years old, his family moved to Manila. During World War II, he became a follower of the Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere, and served as a colonel of theKempetai of the Japanese Empire. When the American soldiers succeed in returning to the shores of the Philippines, Amorsolo was captured by Filipino troops. He was sentenced and executed by firing squad in the hands of guerillas. He died in this manner at the Antipolo, Rizal in 1945.

WORKS * Ferdinand Magellan and Natives * Piro, oil on canvas, 183 x 138 mm, 1930[5] * The Discovery of the Philippines, 1945

Ancheta, Isidro
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Isidro Ancheta (October 15, 1882 – 1946) was a Filipino landscape painter. He finished his Elementary, Secondary and Bachelor of Arts Degree (1904) at the Ateneo de Manila. He also studied at the Liceo de Manila, Escuela de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado and the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura run by Teodoro Buenaventura in the early 1900s. He was represented with 8 paintings in the Philippine Section at the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, where his painting titled A Victim of War received an Honorable Mention. He taught at the Philippine Normal School from 1918 to 1926. Before World War II, his landscapes were found in classrooms all over the Philippines. In 1941 his Tienda del Barrio won Second Honorable Mention in the Filipiniana Category at the National Art Competition sponsored by the University of Santo Tomas.

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Antonio, Marcel BIOGRAPHY
Marcel Antonio (born June 28, 1965) is a Filipino painter once considered one of the most promising in Philippinecontemporary art.[1] A graduate of the University of the Philippines' College of Fine Arts, Antonio has produced a distinctive collection of narrative and pseudo-narrative figurative paintings influenced by modernism and 1980s postmodernism.As one of the Philippines' young painters most proficient in the expressionist genre, Antonio is currently considered a prize ofcollectors in the Manila art market, which following granted the painter mainstream gallery success. Since Antonio's career started, art dealers have indulged the painter an unending series of sold-out exhibitions.[2]Antonio's works involve a clear expressionism with mysterious themes, often utilizing fabular images that combine myth withreality. Seeming stories behind his paintings have also captured mainstream gallery-goers' attention.Philippine critics also regard Antonio as one among the most important contemporary Filipino painters, bestowing on the artist a number of critical acclaim for his magnetic narratives in oil and acrylic. In Manila he has exhibited at major galleries like Galleria Duemila, The Drawing Room, Gallery BIG, Galleria Quattrocento and Glorietta Art Center, where his following include both local and international buyers. He has also exhibited in Berlin, Australia and Singapore.

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Aute, Luis Eduardo
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First years in the Philippines
Luis Eduardo Aute was born in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on September 13, 1943. His father, a Catalan (fromCatalonia, Spain), had been working in that country since 1919, for a tobacco company, and was married to a Filipina ofSpanish descent.[2] In his childhood, Aute studied at the De La Salle School, where he learned English and Tagalog, which is used within his family. At an early age he showed great ability as a painter and sketcher. Another childhood passion was cinema; his interest in filmmaking was abetted by his parents' giving him an 8 mm camera, which he used to produce home-made movies with his friends.At 8 years old, he traveled to Spain for the first time. In Madrid, with the Hotel Avenida Orchestra, he sang for the first time in public, interpreting the song Las hojas muertas (The Dead Leaves). At age 9 he watched On the Waterfront, a movie that had a powerful influence on him and inspired him to write his first poems in English. Another cinematic influence at that age was the movie Niagara, where he discovered the eroticism and sensuality of Marilyn Monroe.

Return to Spain
In 1954 after a short stay in Barcelona, Aute returned definitively to Madrid, where he studied in the "Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas" (Catholic School). At 15 years old, with his new guitar received as a birthday present, he performed at an end of school party, as part of a trio with two friends. During these years he was very influenced by German Expressionism, and dedicated most of his time to paint, winning a silver medal in a Spanish 'Juvenile Art Contest'.

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Cabrera, Benedicto BIOGRAPHY Benedicto Reyes Cabrera (born August 27, 1942),[citation needed] better known as "BenCab", is a Filipino painterand was awarded National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts (Painting) in 2006. He has been noted as "arguably the best-selling painter of his generation of Filipino artists." WORKS * Ben Cabrera: Etchings (1970–1980) by Cid Reyes; * Bencab’s Rock Sessions by Eric Caruncho; * BENCAB by Alfred Yuson and Cid Reyes; and * BenCab: Nude Drawings by Alfred Yuson. De la Rosa, Fabián
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Fabián Cueto de la Rosa (May 5, 1869 – December 14, 1937) was born in Paco, Manila to husband and wife Marcos de la Rosa and Gregoria Cueto. was a Filipino painter. He was uncle and mentor to the Philippines' national artist in painting, Fernando Amorsolo, and to his brother Pablo..He is regarded as a "master of genre" in Philippine art WORKS * Women Working in a Rice Field, 1902 * Transplanting Rice, 1904 * The Death of General Lawton, 1904 * Un recuerdo de la Villa Borghese (A Remembrance of the Villa Borghese), 1909 * Planting Rice, 109.2 x 190.6 cm, oil on canvas, 1921, National Museum Collection * Los Baños, watercolor, 56.2 x 66.4 cm, 1922, UP Vargas Museum * La pintora (Woman Painter) * La bordadora (The Embroiderer) * Landscape with Dark Trees, 1927 * Barcazas en el Rio (Houseboats in a River), oil on canvas, Private Collection, USA * Pasay Beach, Manila, 1927 * Young Filipina, oil on canvas, 34.2 x 27.9 cm, 1928, Paulino Que Collection * El kundiman (The Kundiman), 1930 * Riverview of Sta. Ana, 48.2 x 64.5 cm, oil on canvas, 1938, UP Vargas Museum Collection * Marikina Road, ca. 1939 * View of Santa Ana * Marikina Valley, oil on canvas, 39.3 x 50 cm, undated, UP Vargas Museum Collection * El Kabayo 48.2 x 64.5 cm, oil on canvas, 1938, UP Vargas Museum Collection

Edades, Victorio C. BIOGRAPHY
Victorio Edades was born on December 23, 1895 to Hilario and Cecilia Edades. He was the youngest of ten children (six of whom died of smallpox). He grew up in Barrio Bolosan in Dagupan, Pangasinan. His artistic ability surfaced during his early years. By seventh grade, his teachers were so impressed with him that he was dubbed "apprentice teacher" in his art class. He was also an achiever from the very beginning, having won awards in school debates and writing competitions. a Filipino painter who was the leader of the revolutionaryThirteen Moderns who engaged their classical compatriots in heated debate over the nature and function of art. He was named a National Artist in 1976.

WORKS Francisco, Botong BIOGRAPHY
Francisco was a most distinguished practitioner of mural painting for many decades and best known for his historical pieces. He was one of the first Filipino modernists along with Galo Ocampo and Victorio C. Edades who broke away from Fernando Amorsolo's romanticism of Philippine scenes. According to restorer Helmuth Josef Zotter, Francisco's art "is a prime example of linear painting where lines and contours appear like cutouts." His great works include Blood Compact, First Mass at Limasawa, The Martyrdom of Rizal, Bayanihan, Magpupukot, Fiesta, Bayanihan sa Bukid, Sandugo, Portrait of Purita, The Invasion of Limahong, Serenade, and Muslim Betrothal. Some of his murals have suffered damage over the years. The "Pageant of Commerce" emerged from several years of restoration in 2000.[3] His murals in the lobby of the Philippine General Hospital were restored for the 3rd time in 2007. He was also responsible for the discovery of the now famous Angono Petroglyphs in 1965. He was also involved in Costume Design in Philippine cinema. WORKS

Gorospe, Paco
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Francisco "Paco" Gorospe (July 10, 1939 – September 22, 2002) was a Filipino painter, called the "Picasso of the Philippines".Paco Gorospe is one of the famous painters of the Philippines.[1] He was born in Binondo, Manila. He was inspired by the simple and colourful lifestyle of native tribes from the south of the country such as the Yakans, the Bogobos and the Tausugs.He joined a local group of artists in Ermita, Manila and sold his paintings locally, gradually gaining recognition. Paco started with crayons, later using water colours but finally shifted to oil paintings.Gorospe's first major exhibition took place in 1962 at the Washington State Fair. US sales increased and in 1964 his works were chosen to represent the Philippines at the1964 New York World's Fair.Other foreign exhibitions followed including Okinawa, Japan (1972), Baden-Baden, Germany (1989), Switzerland and Denmark[citation needed].In 1990, his work Sabungeros ("cockfighting") was chosen by Philippine Airlines for the cover of their playing cards given to passengers.

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Hidalgo, Felix Resurrección
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Hidalgo was born in Binondo Manila on February 21, 1853. He was the third of seven children of Eduardo Resurrección Hidalgo and Maria Barbara Padilla. He studied in the University of Santo Tomas. He studied law, which he never finished, received a bacheller en filosifia in March 1871. He was simultaneously enrolled at the Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura. In 1876, he previewed his La barca The Native Boat, Vendedora de lanzones Lanzones Vendor and other paintings at theTeatro Circo de Bilibid before they were sent to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of that year. In 1878, he painted the poignant and well-crafted Los mendigos The Beggars.
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Joya, Jose T. BIOGRAPHY
José T. Joya (1931–1995) was a Filipino abstract artist and a National Artist of the Philippines awardee. Joya was a printmaker, mixed media artist, and a former dean of the University of the Philippines' College of Fine Arts. He pioneered abstract expressionism in the Philippines. His canvases were characterized by "dynamic spontaneity" and "quick gestures" of action painting. He is the creator of compositions that were described as "vigorous compositions" of heavy impastoes, bold brushstrokes, controlled dips, and diagonal swipes".Joya added the brilliant tropical colors. He was awarded a Fulbright-Smile-Mundt grant which enabled him to pursue a master's degree in Fine Arts in 1956-57His works were strongly influenced by the tropical landscapes of the Philippine Islands. Among his masterpieces are the Nanking (a collage rendered with Asian calligraphy and forms and patterns resembling rice paddies), the Granadean Arabesque (1958) and Biennial (1964).

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Kiukok, Ang BIOGRAPHY Ang Kiukok (March 1, 1931 – May 9, 2005) was a leading Filipino painter and a National Artist for Visual Arts. He was born in Davao City, Philippines to Chinese Filipino parents who had emigrated from Fukien. He pursued Art Studies at the University of Santo Tomas, where he was taught by Filipino art masters, most notably Vicente Manansala who was to become a lifelong friend and mentor. WORKS Legaspi, Cesar BIOGRAPHY Cesar Legaspi on April 2, 1917 in Tondo, Manila (1917–1994) is a Filipino National Artist awardee in painting. He was also an art director prior to going full-time in his visual art practice in the 1960s. His early (1940s-1960s) works, alongside those of peer, Hernando Ocampo are described as depictions of anguish and dehumanization of beggars and laborers in the city. These include Man and Woman (alternatively known as Beggars) and Gadgets'. Primarily because of this early period, critics have further cited Legaspi's having "reconstituted" in his paintings "cubism's unfeeling, geometric ordering of figures into a social expressionism rendered by interacting forms filled with rhythmic movement" WORKS Leynes, Nestor BIOGRAPHY
Nestor Garcia Leynes (born February 26, 1922) is a Filipino hyperrealistic painter. Leynes is regarded as one of the leaders of the "Magic Realist" movement of the Philippines. He was born Santa Cruz, Manila. Leynes was born in February 26, 1922 in Santa Cruz, Manila. His parents were Ricardo Leynes, a doctor, and Enriqueta Garcia, a registered nurse. He had three brothers and a sister. Leynes' parents owned several paintings, including some by the Filipino master painter Fabián Cueto de la Rosa, a distant relative of the family. Probably influenced by his environment, Leynes already expressed the desire to be an artist from a young age. His parents discouraged this ambition, fearing a life of hardship for him. Nevertheless, Leynes was already taking art lessons in grade school and highschool. He graduated from the Arellano High School and entered the College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines. His studies were cut short in his fourth year by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in World War II. Two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he married Amalia Alcantara, a childhood neighbor and sweetheart. Being already married, Leynes never returned to school after the war and thus never graduated. He found work as an illustrator for Ramon Roces Publications. He created illustrations for magazines like Liwayway and Philippine comics.[3][4]He was hired as a staff artist for the Philippine Advertising Counsel. Later on, he became the executive vice president for the art department of the J. Romero and Associates Advertising Agency.[2]Leynes resumed painting full-time after retiring in 1980 at the age of fifty eight. WORKS

Luna, Juan BIOGRAPHY
Juan Luna y Novicio (October 23, 1857 – December 7, 1899) was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century. He became one of the first recognized Philippine artists.His winning the gold medal in the 1884 Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts, along with the silver win of fellow Filipino painterFélix Resurrección Hidalgo, prompted a celebration which was a major highlight in the memoirs of members of thePropaganda Movement, with the fellow Ilustrados toasting to the two painters' good health and to the brotherhood between Spain and the Philippines.Regarded for work done in the manner of the Spanish, Italian and French academies of his time, Luna painted literary and historical scenes, some with an underscore of political commentary. His allegorical works were inspired with classical balance, and often showed figures in theatrical poses.
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Luz, Arturo R. BIOGRAPHY
Arturo Rogerio Luz (born November 20, 1926) is a Philippine National Artist awardee in visual arts. He is also a knownprintmaker, sculptor, designer and art administrator. A founding member of the modern Neo-realist school in Philippine art, he received the National Artist Award, the country's highest accolade in the arts, in 1997.[1]Luz has produced art pieces through a disciplined economy of means. His early drawings were described as "playful linear works" influenced by Paul Klee. His best masterpieces are minimalist, geometric abstracts, alluding to the modernist "virtues" of competence, order and elegance; and were further described as evoking universal reality and mirrors an aspiration for an acme of true Asian modernity.

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Malang BIOGRAPHY Mauro Malang Santos (born January 20, 1928), commonly known by the mononym Malang, is a prominent and award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and fine arts painter from the Philippines. Malang is the son of Dan Santos and Juliana Malang. He married Mary San Pedro, with whom he has four children including painters Steve Santos and Soler Santos.Malang started learning how to draw from Teodoro Buenaventura, a private tutor,[2] when he was ten years old. He studied at the Antonio Regidor Elementary School in 1934, and attended Arellano High School in 1941.[2] For one semester, Malang studied at the College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines in 1946.[2] He stopped attending formal school at the age of 19 in order to work for the art department of the Manila Chronicle. While with the newspaper, he apprenticed under cartoonist Liborio "Gat" Gatbonton. During 1972, Malang attended art classes at the Otis Art Institute[1] in Los Angeles, California, under a three-month scholarship WORKS Manansala, Vicente
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Vicente Silva Manansala (January 22, 1910 - August 22, 1981) was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator. Manansala was born in Macabebe, Pampanga. From 1926 to 1930, he studied at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. In 1949, Manansala received a six-month grant by UNESCO to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Banff and Montreal, Canada. In 1950, he received a nine-month scholarship to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris by the French government.Manansala's canvases were described as masterpieces that brought the cultures of the barrio and the city together. HisMadonna of the Slums is a portrayal of a mother and child from the countryside who became urban shanty residents once in the city. In his Jeepneys, Manansala combined the elements of provincial folk culture with the congestion issues of the city. Manansala developed transparent cubism, wherein the "delicate tones, shapes, and patterns of figure and environment are masterfully superimposed". A fine example of Manansala using this "transparent and translucent" technique is his composition,Kalabaw (Carabao). Vicente Manansala, a National Artist of the Philippines in Visual Arts, was a direct influence to his fellow Filipino neo-realists: Malang, Angelito Antonio, Norma Belleza and Baldemor.[1] The Honolulu Museum of Art, the Lopez Memorial Museum (Manila), the Philippine Center (New York City), the Singapore Art Museum and Holy Angel University (Angeles City, Philippines) are among the public collections holding work by Vicente Manansala. Holy Angel University recently opened a section of its museum called The Vicente Manansala Collection, holding most of the estate left by the artist.He died on August 22, 1981 in Manila, Philippines due to cancer.
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* Madonna of the Slums * Jeepneys * Kalabaw (Carabao), oil on canvas, 28.5 inches x 38 inches, 1965 * Murals "Stations of the cross " in the Church of the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice * Bangkusay Seascape. 1940. Oil on canvas. 14 x 18 inches. * Pila Pila sa Bigas (Left and Right), 1980. Oil on canvas. 51 x 84 inches. * Planting the First Cross

Mapa, Jao
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Jose Vicente P. Mapa III, who is better known by his screen name Jao Mapa (born February 11, 1976), is a popular actor in the Philippines. He is also an accomplished painter known by the name Jao Mapa.He graduated at the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in Fine arts, majoring in advertising. He is married to Cecille and has three children, namely, Benjamin, Caleb and Amber Marie.
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* Pamilya * Basurero * Inuman * Jusinera * Minotour * Umaga * Labandera * Pista

Miclat, Maningning
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Miclat was born in Beijing, China to Filipino parents. Her family left the Philippines in 1969 during the Marcos regime and moved to China in 1971. In 1986, she and her family returned to the Philippines after Marcos was removed from power. She has a younger sister, Banaue, who is an aspiring opera singer in New York City. In 1987, she published her first book of poems, Wo De Shi, in Mandarin, and held her first solo show of traditional Chinese painting, Maningning: An Exhibit of Chinese Brush Works.[4] She had four more solo shows in her lifetime. Miclat became a Fellow of the University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop in 1990 and won an award for a Filipino play there.[1]She also became a Fellow of the Silliman National Writers Workshop.In 1992, she won the Art Association of the Philippines Grand Prize for a painting entitled Trouble in Paradise and her second book of poetry, Voice from the Underworld, was a finalist in the country's 2001 National Book Award.[5]She died at the year 2000. She committed suicide.
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Ocampo, Hernando R.
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Hernando Ruiz Ocampo (April 28, 1911 – December 28, 1978) was a Filipino National Artist in the visual arts. He is alsofictionist, a playwright and editor.Hernando Ruiz Ocampo was a leading radical modernist artist in the Philippines. He was a member of the Saturday Group of artists (also known as the Taza de Oro Group), and was one of the pre-war Thirteen Moderns, a group of modernist artists founded by Victorio C. Edades in 1938. Famously known for his triumvirate of with neo-realists Vicente S. Manansala and Cesar Legaspi, his works reflected the harsh realities of his country after the Second World War. However, many of his works depicted lush sceneries and the beautiful Philippine landscapes through his skillful use of fierce and bold colors.
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Olmedo, Onib BIOGRAPHY Onib Olmedo (July 7, 1937 - September 8, 1996) was an award-winning expressionist Filipino painter. He illustrated The Body Book (1993) by Gilda Cordero-Fernando.[1] He created populist art and depicted the marginalized part of the society.[2] In 1970, he decided to shift from is 12-year career in architecture to painting where he became a leading figure in Philippine expressionism. WORKS Ossorio, Alfonso A BIOGRAPHY
Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916–1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental. His heritage was Hispanic, Filipino, and Chinese. Between the ages of eight and thirteen, he attended school in England. At age fourteen, he moved to the United States. Ossorio attended Portsmouth Priory (now Portsmouth Abbey School) in Rhode Island, graduating in 1934. From 1934 to 1938, he studied fine art at Harvard University and then continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. He became an American citizen in 1933 and served as a medical illustrator in the United States Army during World War II. WORKS

Parial, Mario BIOGRAPHY
Mario Parial (born August 13, 1944) ( died December 22, 2013) is a Multi-awarded Filipino painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. His works have been sold at Sotheby's. He was born on August 13, 1944 in Nueva Ecija. One of the fourteen children of Fidel Parial and Aurora Agustin. He studied grade school at the Pura V Kalaw Elementary School.Graduated in 1958. In 1963 he graduated from the Roosevelt Memorial School in Quezon City where he was the editor of Duplex, the Campus paper. In 1964 he learned printmaking under Manuel Rodriguez Senior, the father of Print Making in the Philippines. In 1967 he began the year with a job with FairAds Inc located in Escolta, Manila. In 1969 he graduated from the University of Santo Tomas, Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Advertising. In 1969 he joined the Faculty of the University of Santo Tomas to teach painting, printmaking and photography. In 1970 he married Carina Claro with whom he has 2 Children, namely, Kristine born in 1971 and Mikel (Also a Painter, Printmaker and Photographer) born in 1972. His classmates, five of them formed the PENTA GROUP an advertising group and Mario was one of the graphic designer.. He also had a brief stint teaching art at the University of the Philippines. He died on December 22, 2013 due to cancer.
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* The 1980 Mobil Art Awards by Alice Guillermo, pp 64–67 * Contemporary Philippine Art by Manuel Duldulao, Jr. * The Struggle for Philippine Art by Purita Kalaw Ledesma and Amadis Ma. Guerrero * A Century of Realism in Philippine Art by Manuel Duldulao, Jr. * Filipino Nudes by Alfredo Roces * Okir by Leonides Benesa * Cultural Center of the Philippines Annual Book, 1978–1982 * 25 Years of Philippine Printmaking, Museum of Philippine Art * Art Philippines, The Crucible Workshop * Miracles of Mary, BlackBerry Press Inc., Harper Collins Publishing Co., New York, USA
Phoenix, Satine
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Satine Phoenix (born May 22, 1980)[1][2] is a Philippine-born retired pornographic actress, bondage and fetish model.[3]She is also a painter, an illustrator and a gamer.Phoenix was born May 22, 1980 in Olongapo, Zambales,[1] located in the Philippines. Her father is Sicilian and her mother is Filipino. She was raised in Sacramento, California.[4]1994-1998 Student Government: Commissioner of Clubs President of Del Campo Drama Club Actress/Director Director of her school Play "Death: The High Cost of living" Which she adapted from A Neil Gaiman Comic book from the Sandman Series Awarded Best Actress for her Performance in Much Ado About Nothing (School Play) Awarded Drama Club Scholarship1998 Moved to San Francisco to attend the Academy of Art University (1998-2001) Major: 3d/2d Animation, Stop Motion, Sculpture & Illustration
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Rizal, José BIOGRAPHY