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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1759227097170[AAG] AAA 2025 Entrance.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>HandoutMANILA — The country’s most promising young artists and writers will take center stage this Sunday, Oct. 5, as the Ateneo Art Gallery announces the winners of the Ateneo Art Awards 2025 at its Soledad V. Pangilinan Arts Wing in Areté, Ateneo de Manila University.</div>The ceremony will reveal this year’s recipients of the Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art and the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism, honoring outstanding contributions to contemporary art and critical writing. Trophies will be presented to shortlisted artists and writers, alongside the announcement of residency grant recipients and the grantee of the Embassy of Italy Purchase Prize.Earlier in August, the Ateneo Art Gallery unveiled the 12 shortlisted artists and 10 shortlisted writers, whose works and essays are currently featured in preview and gallery exhibitions. Visitors have also been invited to participate in a People’s Choice Poll, with the top-voted artist to be revealed at the close of the show in December.<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1759227333647[AAG] AAA 2025 Shortlisted Artists.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>Shortlisted artists. HandoutNow a biennial program, the Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art highlight outstanding Filipino artists under 36, nominated for exhibitions held from May 2023 to 2025. This year’s 12 shortlisted artists are:</div>* Lesley-Anne Cao – If time is an arrow, what is its target (Underground, 2023–24)* Uri de Ger – Beauty is in the Eye of the Colonizer (KalawakanSpacetime, 2024)* Lui Gonzales – A Tree Is A Seed As It Falls (Kaida Contemporary, 2025)* Silke Lapina – Bakit Pa (Edoweird, 2025)* Celline Marge Mercado – Between the Lines (RMIT School of Art, Melbourne, 2024)* Hannah Reyes Morales – Home Holds Still (Tarzeer Pictures, 2024–25)* Veronica Peralejo – A Tiny Ball of Mud (West Gallery, 2024)* Issay Rodriguez – gathering, collecting, ongoingness (MO_Space, 2023)* Eunice Sanchez – Sa Ilog Nagtatagpo (West Gallery, 2023)* Jel Suarez – As I Lift One Stone (Blanc Gallery, 2024)* Vien Valencia – Totems (West Gallery, 2024)* Jezzel Wee – to weigh seeds, pulling through (Gravity Art Space, 2023)Four winners will be chosen, each eligible for local and international residencies with partners such as CASA San Miguel in Zambales, La Trobe University in Australia, OCAD University in Canada, and Koganecho Area Management Center in Japan.<div> </div><div>2025 writing shortlist</div>Meanwhile, the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism, co-presented with the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation and The Philippine Star, is now on its 12th edition. With the theme Flight, the competition drew critical essays in both English and Filipino.<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1759227285688[AAG] AAA 2025 PKL English Shortlisted Writers.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>Shortlisted writers (English). HandoutEnglish Category:</div>* Bea Belen-Ferrer – In Between Flight and Fallout: What Would Postwar Modernists Do?* Abigail Buendia – When the City Catches Fire: In Defense of Carla Gamalinda’s Open City* Pie Tiausas – The internet is a space for the lonely* Tyra Maria Trono – Wings for 99 Pesos: On the Sentimental Weight of Dollar-Store Objects and the Imagination of Flight* Denzel Yorong – Martino Abellana and the myth of legacy<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1759227242409[AAG] AAA 2025 PKL Filipino Shortlisted.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>Shortlisted writers (Filipino). HandoutFilipino Category:</div>* Mavs Alviar – Through the Fire: Kung masasaksihan mo lang ang mundo at ang ningning ng mga alipato mula sa ilalim ng mga basket at banig* Emersan Baldemor – Hindi Lahat ng Umaangat ay Naaalala: Si Tandang Ano at ang Politikang Estetiko ng Paglimot* Eric Jhon Bituin – Mga Paang Namumugto: Sining, Pandemya, at ang Lumalakad sa Gilid ng Daan* Josh Paradeza – Ang Tuloy-tuloy na Pagpapalagay sa Winala, Nawawala, Nawalan ni Ides Macapanpan* MJ Rafal – Ang Lipad at Liyab sa A Sea on Fire II ni Joar SongcuyaTwo winners will be chosen in English by The Philippine Star and ArtAsiaPacific, and one in Filipino by Katipunan Journal. Winning writers will be invited to publish with partner outlets and take part in residencies in Bacolod, Zambales, and Bandung, Indonesia.

The country’s most promising young artists and writers will take center stage this Sunday, Oct. 5, as the Ateneo Art Gallery announces the winners of the Ateneo Art Awards 2025 at its Soledad V. Pangilinan Arts Wing in Areté, Ateneo de Manila University.

The country’s most promising young artists and writers will take center stage this Sunday, Oct. 5, as the Ateneo Art Gallery announces the winners of the Ateneo Art Awards 2025 at its Soledad V. Pangilinan Arts Wing in Areté, Ateneo de Manila University.

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Ateneo Art Awards 2025 to crown winning artists, writers on Oct. 5

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Published Oct 02, 2025 12:08 PM PHT

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