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Manuel Ocampo

Manuel Ocampo(born 1965) is aFilipinoartist. His work fuses sacredBaroquereligious iconography with secular political narrative. His works draw upon a wide range of art historical references, contain cartoonish elements, and draw inspiration frompunk subculture.[2]

Manuel Ocampo
Manuel Ocampo inMontpellier,France
Born
Manuel Ocampo

1965
Quezon City,Philippines[1]
NationalityFilipino
EducationUniversity of the Philippines,California State University
Known forPainting
MovementPhilippine Social Realism, Neo-Expressionism
AwardsPollock Krasner Grant,

Background

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Manuel Ocampo was born in thePhilippines.He studied fine arts at theUniversity of the Philippines,then moved toLos Angeles, Californiain the 1980s, where he studied at theCalifornia State University.[2]Ocampo has since moved to back to Manila living with his wife and children.[3]

Art career

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Ocampo frequently revisits and makes reference to the art historical canon of political allegorists includingLeon Golub,Géricault,Goya,Daumierwith allusions to contemporary figures including political satiristR. CrumbModernist painterPhilip Guston.Ocampo's dark, often disturbing Gothic paintings are attributed with transforming horror into exquisite beauty, history into art history, purgatory into salvation. One of his pieces featuring severalswastikaswas censored at theDokumentaart show inKassel, Germany.[2]

Manuel Ocampo has exhibited extensively throughout the 1990s, with solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions through Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In 2005, his work was the subject of a large-scale survey at Casa Asia in Barcelona, and Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France.

Ocampo's work has been included in a number of international surveys, including the 2004Seville Biennale,2001Venice Biennale,the 2001Berlin Biennale,the 2000Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon,the 1997Kwangju Biennial,the 1993CorcoranBiennial, and 1992's controversialDocumenta IX.His work was featured in many group shows in the 1990s, includingHelter Skelter: LA Art of the 1990s,atMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angelesin 1992;Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Artat theAsia Society,New York in 1994;American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformationat Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo in 1997;Pop Surrealismat the Aldrich Museum of Artin 1998; andMade in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000at theLos Angeles County Museum of Artin 2000. He has received a number of prestigious grants and awards, including the Giverny Residency (1998), theRome Prizeat theAmerican Academy(1995–96),National Endowment for the Arts(1996),Pollock-Krasner Foundation(1995) and Art Matters Inc. (1991).

It is important to note that Manuel Ocampo used to make art that criticized western colonialism through allegory and metaphor. Today, his work displays simple imagery; the artist has said of his 1990s work, "I was bored with that shit".[3]

Phillip Rodriguez directed a one-hour documentary of Ocampo's life and art career,Manuel Ocampo, God Is My Copilot.[3]

Ocampo's 1992 painting "Why I Hate Europeans" was used as the cover art to the music album "Mythmaker"bySkinny Puppy.Ocampo's art was also used for the album artwork for "Red Hot + Latin" - from the Red Hot series of benefit albums.

Notes

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  1. ^"Shark's Ink".Archived fromthe originalon 2007-05-02.Retrieved2007-03-17.
  2. ^abcCasin, Pam Brooke A."Manuel Ocampo: iconoclasm personified."Archived2011-06-08 at theWayback MachineManila Bulletin Publishing.31 Jan 2010 (retrieved 16 Aug 2010)
  3. ^abc"Manuel Ocampo, God is my Copilot."Archived2007-10-08 at theWayback MachineCity Projects.(retrieved 16 Aug 2010)

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