Ateneo Art Awards 2025 kicks off at the Shangri-La Plaza this August 19

The Ateneo Art Gallery, in partnership with Shangri-La Plaza, presents a preview of the Ateneo Art Awards 2025 exhibit. The announcement of Shortlisted Artists and Writers for the Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art and Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism will highlight the media event which will be held on 19 August Tuesday, 2:00 pm at the Grand Atrium, Shangri-La Plaza. The exhibition opens for public viewing from 4:00 pm onwards, and runs until 25 August 2025, where guests can see a selection of artworks from the shortlisted exhibitions and browse the shortlisted essays.

Now a biennial program, a shortlist of twelve Filipino contemporary artists has been selected for this year’s Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art. Nominations cover exhibitions held within two exhibition cycles from May 2023 to 2025, with the artists under the age of 36 during the show’s run. Four selected winners will be eligible for residencies with local and international residency hosts.

Co-presented with the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation, Inc. and The Philippine Star, the 12th edition of the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism accepted entries on the theme Flight. Submitted entries for the English and Filipino categories were shortlisted. Two winners will be selected for the English category by The Philippine Star and ArtAsiaPacific, and one winner from the Filipino category by Katipunan Journal. Winning writers will be contributing to Publication Partners’ respective platforms and will be eligible for month-long residencies.

The full exhibition will be on view at the Ateneo Art Gallery from 5 September to 7 December 2025. Winners will be announced during the Awarding Ceremony which will be held on 5 October 2025, Sunday, 2:00 pm at the Ateneo Art Gallery.

The Ateneo Art Awards 2025 is co-presented by Ateneo Art Gallery, Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation Inc., and The Philippine Star; in partnership with ArtAsiaPacific, Katipunan Journal, and the Embassy of Italy in the Philippines; venue partner Shangri-La Plaza; residency partners ABungalow (Talisay, Negros Occidental), CASA San Miguel (San Antonio, Zambales), Indeks (Bandung, Indonesia), Koganecho Area Management Center (Yokohama, Japan), La Trobe University - La Trobe Art Institute (Bendigo, Australia), Liverpool Hope University (Liverpool, United Kingdom), Monsoon Southeast Asia (Singapore), No Space (Baguio, Benguet), OCAD University (Ontario, Canada), Orange Project Naranja Residency (Bacolod, Negros Occidental), Project Space Pilipinas (Lucban, Quezon Province) and The White House (San Antonio, Zambales).