Manuel Ocampo

Another Famous Filipino is Manuel Ocampo. He was born on 1965. Manuel Ocampo is a Famous Filipino artist. His work fuses sacred Baroque religious iconography with the secular and serious political narrative with the cartoonish. Manuel Ocampo's work has been included in a number of international surveys, including the 2004 Seville Biennale, 2001 Venice Biennale, the 2001 Berlin Biennale, the 2000 Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon, the 1997 Kwangju Biennial, the 1993 Corcoran Biennial, and 1992’s controversial Documenta IX. Manuel Ocampo frequently revisits and makes reference to the art historical canon of political allegorists including Leon Golub, Gericault, Goya, Daumier with allusions to contemporary figures including political satirist R. Crumb Modernist painter Philip Guston. Ocampo’s dark, often disturbing Gothic paintings are attributed with transforming horror into exquisite beauty, history into art history, purgatory into salvation.

Manuel Ocampo's work was featured in many group shows in the 1990s, including Helter Skelter: LA Art of the 1990s, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1992; Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art at the Asia Society, New York in 1994; American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation at Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo in 1997; Pop Surrealism at the Aldrich Museum of Artin 1998; and Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2000. 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.

Manuel Ocampo's has received a number of prestigious grants and awards, including the Giverny Residency (1998), the Rome Prize at the American Academy (1995-96),National Endowment for the Arts (1996), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1995) and Art Matters Inc. (1991).

Rey Paz Contreras

One of the most Famous Filipino Artist in the field of sculpture is Rey Paz Contreras. He was born on August 31, 1950. Rey Paz Contreras is a prominent Filipino sculptor working with urban refuse and environmental materials as artistic media. He is inspired by the indigenous Filipino culture and creates visual forms of contemporary images that explore a distinct Filipino aesthetics. He currently has his studio near the railroad tracks in Tondo, Manila, where he conducts his community-based art training to promote a socially-responsive 'people's art' that has developed into the Daambakal Sculptors Collective. Rey Paz Contreras' pioneered the use of travieza or hardwood railroad tracks during the late 70s.

As an artist, Rey Paz Contreras is also a pioneering spirit in the development of community-based people's art. He has conducted workshops in the provinces and has organized self-sustaining community craft-based art groups such as Cadaclan Carvers in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, Malasiqui carvers in Pangasinan and more recently the Banglos Art Group in Quezon Province; Rey Paz Contreras has taught woodcarving on other provinces such as Capiz, Rizal and Abra. Rey Paz Contreras has also been supportive of progressive religious organizations, most notable is his partnership with the Missionaries of Jesus (MJ). Some of the more popular public art of Contreras can be found on chapels like Calaruega and Chapel on the Hill in Batulao, Batangas (near Tagaytay); his work in Sagada, Mountain Province is found inside the Episcopalian Church.

Francis Magalona

Francis Magalona is a Famous Filipino Artist known as the Master Rapper of the Philippines. He was bon on October 4, 1964, his parents are Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran, both popular actor and actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Francis Magalona married Pia Arroyo and they got 8 offspring’s: Unna, Nicolo, Francis Jr., Elmo, Arkin, Clara, and actresses Maxene and Saab.

Francis Magalona started as a breakdancer in the 1980s; he was cast in many Filipino movies of that decade, including Bagets 2. Francis likewise gained attention as the resident DJ/rapper in the IBC-13 variety show Loveli'Ness. During 1990, he released the groundbreaking Yo! Album, the first Pinoy rap album in the Philippines that was commercially released. Yo! Album is a big success with songs Mga Kababayan Ko (My Fellow Countrymen), Gotta Let 'Cha Know, Cold Summer Nights and Man From Manila. Followed by FrancisM album in 1992 that makes him one of the most Famous Filipino Artists in the field of music.

Francis Magalona died on March 6, 2009 because of multiple-organ failure caused by leukemia.

Joyce E. Bernal

Joyce Bernal or known as Binibining (Miss) Joyce Bernal is a film and television director in the Philippines who started as a film editor for Viva Films in 1994.

Bernal is a single mother to her daughter Liam.

TV Series

2009 Ang Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang GMA Network Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes
2008 Dyesebel GMA Network Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes
2007 MariMar GMA Network Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes
2003 StarStruck GMA Network
2002 Ang Iibigin ay Ikaw GMA Network Christopher de Leon, Richard Gomez, and Alice Dixon

Isidro Ancheta

Isidro Ancheta (October 15, 1882, San Miguel, Bulacan, Philippines – 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.