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CCP has announced the 2015 batch of its oldest award program, the CCP Thirteen Artists Awards.
The awardees who will stage an exhibition come September are Buen Abrigo, Martha Atienza, Zean Bajar Cabangis, Ernest Concepcion, Vermont Coronel, Dexter Fernandez, Mark Andy Garcia, Nikki Luna, Hanna Pettyjohn, Mervy Pueblo, Mark Valenzuela, Alvin Zafra, and Jeona Zoleta.
They have been chosen by jurors, some of whom are past TAA awardees themselves: Jaime de Guzman, Mark Justiniani, Julie Lluch, and Pam Yan-Santos. Ma. Victoria “Boots” Herrera, who is the Visual Arts and Museum director and the Ateneo Art Gallery director completes the panel.
The CCP TAA is given to artists who are below 40 years old and who prove to take chances and risk to restructure, restrengthen, and renew art making and art thinking.
This is the 16th time CCP has handed out the awards in 45 years. It was started in 1970 by CCP museum director Roberto Chabet as a curatorial guide for an exhibition. In 2009, it became an event that occured once inthree years. The last time CCP handed out the awards was in 2012.
According to Businessworld, “Each winner will receive a cash grant of P40,000 to produce new work for a group exhibition at the CCP’s Bulwagang Juan Luna (Main Gallery), which will open on Sept. 3. The exhibit will be curated by past TAA awardees Jonathan Olazo and the trophy will be designed by Juan Alcazaren.”
