Artist Profile
Cobcobo (b.1983) Mandaluyong, working on painting, printmaking and woodcarving. He combines these disciplines in assemblages and installation, a good sampling of which have been viewed in venues such as the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Bencab Museum, Yuchengco Museum, Ayala Museum Megamall art center, Avellana art gallery, Mendez Art Gallery, Blu Room Art Gallery and other new and emerging alternative art spaces in Metro Manila.
Cobcobo’s Ethnicity, (a half Igorot and half Ilocano who has lived and studied in Mandaluyong City since his early youth) has its influence in the endemic and actuated tension apparent to his work. His art combines contemporary and transmedia approaches to traditional art practices, revealing an introspective interest in the critique and construct of a moral/ ethical re-imaging of what is endemic and prevalent in social and cultural practices.
Visual artist Joey Cobcobo, is a Cum Laude graduate of Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Advertising from the Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) in 2004 and presently an Instructor of Graphic Arts Printmaking and Painting from life in Fine Arts (FA) Department in the same University. In just few years, he has garnered a number of distinctions, including the Thirteen Artists Awards (2012). He was Shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2009, 2010 and was given Juror’s Choice of Excellency during the same year’s Philippine Art Awards.
Some of his select exhibits were held locally and as well in abroad such as Seoul Korea, Singapore, Australia and Vietnam
Studio Address: 197 Block 40 Welfareville Compound, Barangay Addition Hills,
Mandaluyong City, Philippines 1550
Birth Date: May 6, 1983
Telephone Number: 534-6311
Mobile Number: 0927-2819769
E-mail Address: cobcobo_joey@yahoo.com
Affiliations: Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) – Instructor
Faculty Member 2010 to present
Printmakers Association of the Philippines (PAP) – Member - 2009 to present
Philippine Committee of Asian Artist Inc. (PCAA INC.) – Member
Art Association of the Philippines (AAP) – Member
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Tertiary: Technological University of the Philippines (TUP), Ayala Boulevard, Ermita, Manila
Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Advertising, Cum Laude
March 2004
Technological University of the Philippines (TUP), Ayala Boulevard, Ermita, Manila
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education, Teaching Education
Completed 18 units in Professional Subjects
2005 to 2006
SELECT AWARDS & CITATIONS
2012 Recipient of 13 Artists Awards given by Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
2010 Philippine Art Awards, Juror’s Choice of Excellency, Philip Morris Art Competition
Ateneo Art Awards, Shortlisted Artist for “7 Heads and 10 Horns”, the third solo exhibition at Avellana Art Gallery
2009 Philippine Art Awards, NCR Winner
Ateneo Art Awards, Shortlisted Artists for the 8 printmakers group show at Avellana Art Gallery
2008 Figuras Painting Competition, Juror's Choice Award
2004 First PDSI Drawing Competition by the Big & Small Co., Honorable Mention
FEU 2nd Annual Inter-University On-the-spot Painting Competition, 3rd Place
2003 National Piñana Art Competition on “The Filipino Soul”, Grand Prize
3rd Art Petron National Painting Competition, Watercolor category, Runner-Up
UST Inter-University On the Spot Painting Competition, 2nd Place
2002 2nd Art Petron National Students Painting Competition, Grand Prize
14th Veterans Memorial Medical Center Inter-Collegiate Art Competition, 3rd Place
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 I'm Doing My Father's Business
Nineth Solo Exhibition at Avellana Art Gallery
2013 Grand: Ojichan Obachan
Eight Solo Exhibition at Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan
2012 Lola 101 4th Part
Seventh Solo Exhibition at Bencab Museum, Baguio City, Philippnes
December 15- January 12, 2012
Lola 101 3rd Part
Sixth Solo Exhibition at Ortigas Foundation Library
October 11- November 12, 2012
Lola 101 2nd Part
Fifth Solo Exhibition at Avellana Art Gallery
September 8 – 29, 2012
2010 Lola 101
Fourth Solo Exhibition at Avellana Art Gallery
November 6 to 30, 2010
2009 7 Heads and 10 Horns
Third Solo Exhibit at Avellana Art Gallery,
May 6 to 30, 2009
2008 Evangelio
Second Solo Exhibition at Big & Small Co.
May 1 to 10, 2008
2007 Black Saturday
First Solo Exhibition at Big & Small Co.
November 24 to December 4, 2007
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(at Philippine galleries unless otherwise stated)
2013 Bagong Panahon
Galerie Anna, 4th Floor Megamall A, Mandaluyong City
May 24- June 8, 2013
Printmaking, Pinoy Printmakers
Philippine Center, 5th Avenue in Manhattan
New York City
April 9- 14, 2013
Mandaluyong Art Festival (MAF organizer)
Greenfield District (Twin Oaks Showroom, Zitan, Pavilllion and Greenfields Park)
(Art Exhibitions, Music, Performances, Artist Talks and Art Workshops)
2012 Pinoy Ako
Fine Arts Museum
Hotel Equatorial
Intercontinental Asiana Saigon
Geisha Café
Fine Arts Museum
Hotel Equatorial
Intercontinental Asiana Saigon
Geisha Café
Vietnam
Starts on June 12 to 23, 2012
After Picasso
NOW Gallery, Makati
September 6 – October 16, 2012
Asian International Art Exhibition
Ayala Museum, Philippines
Ground Floor Gallery Makati
March 5- April 1
Pinoyprintmakers at German Club and Gallery
Penthouse Eurovilla 2, Makati, Philippines
March 28
2011 26th AIAE (Asian International Art Exhibition) in Seoul Korea's,
Hangaram Art Museum
September
Mandaluyong Art Exhibition
Mayor’s Building
November
Placard: Signs of the times
Vargas Museum Grounds + Basement
July 4 to 23, 2011
Rizal Figuras
Art Center, SM Megamall
June 1 to 14, 2011
Freshly Brewed
Republikha Art Gallery
May 18 to June 8, 2011
Roaring Twenty and More
Altromondo Arte Contemporaneo
March 17 to April 6, 2011
2010 Highland 8
Bencab Museum
September 1 to November 14, 2010
Pumapapel
Yuchengco Museum
July 13 to November 6, 2010
Secrets and Silence
Capitana Gallery, Balay ni Tana Dicang
Talisay City, Negros Occidental
July 15 to September 4, 2010
Signos, signs, streams and signals
Art Center, SM Megamall
April 23 to May 9, 2010
2009 Philippine Art Awards, NCR Finalist
National Museum
Bakas
Modern and Contemporary Printmakers of the Philippines
Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines
November
“40th Anniversary of Cultural Center of the Philippines”
We Said Are Peace
October
Printshow
Alab Art Space
Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines
Love Rules
Boston Art Gallery
Sa Pula sa Puti
Philippine Association of Printmakers, Inc.
Group Exhibition
2008 Philippine Folktales
The Forth / Utterly Gallery
Singapore
August 2008
Invitational Mini-Exhibition
Post Office Gallery, The Arts Academy
University of Ballard Victoria
Australia
April 14 to 26, 2008
Eight Printmakers
Avellana Art Gallery
Art 40
Pinto Art Gallery
TutoKKK: Krisis Kalunasan Anong K Mo?
Blanc Compound, Mandaluyong City
2007 Invitational Mini-Exhibition
Poking Benguet
April 2007
Through the Palette’s Eye
The Rico & Melannie Hizon Palette Art Collection
Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines
March 23 to May 6, 2007
Eros
Alab Art Space
Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines
February 23 to March 2007
Eden Desires
Art Center, SM Megamall
January 5 to 17, 2007
2006 Woodblock
Avellana Art gallery, Philippines
November 20 to December 9, 2006
Dos pos Dos, Tutok Karapatan
Boston Gallery
December 2 to 30, 2006
Alab
Art Center, SM Megamall
October 7 to 22, 2006
Aphrodisiac fud, two-man show by Joey Cobcobo and Demosthenes Campos
Big & Small Co.
September 11, 2006
A Compendium of Divergent Views, 21 contemporary artists
11th WORLDBEX, World Trade Center
March 7 to 11, 2006
Art on Violin
Art Center, SM Megamall
December 23 to January 5, 2006
2005 Tagpuan
Nineveh Art Space
Santa Cruz, Laguna
February 5 to 28, 2005
Intransit
Big & Small Co.
July 26 to August 3, 2005
2004 Box
Avellana Art Gallery
June 12, 2004
Secrets and Silence, three-man show
Avellana Art Gallery
October 16 to November 29, 2004
