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Leo Abaya lives and works in Quezon City, Philippines. He is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in a variety of medium. His explorations in painting, small sculptures, installations, and video inquire about history, memory, and the body. He teaches studio art at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His qualifications include BS Economics, HNU, BFA (Painting), UP College of Fine Arts Diliman; MA Fine Art (Painting), Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He complements art making with curation, set design, and filmmaking. In 2013, he wrote and directed a drama-comedy titled Instant Mommy, which was nominated for the New Breed segment at the Cinemalaya Film Festival award that same year.

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      • LEO ABAYA (b. 1960) HUMAN SHROUD, 2007, Acrylic on canvas
        Apr. 23, 2017

        LEO ABAYA (b. 1960) HUMAN SHROUD, 2007, Acrylic on canvas

        Est: RM4,000 - RM6,000

        The monochrome work captures a sultry lovemaking in what looks like a secret rendezvous with the naked woman on her back below raising her bent left leg in ecstasy. Expected from someone who is an artist-filmmaker, Leo Abaya. What it comments on is open to interpretations – the Philippines social mores, perhaps, a stolen romp in the bed or a timely respect or even a snippet from a scene in one of the films he is involved in. Muro-Ami, perhaps, for which he won Best Production Design in the Metro Manila Film Festival; or Gred de Guzman’s film, Jose Rizal, for which he won the Gawad Urian award. Both were in 1999. The same year, he also won the FAMAS Awards and the Movie Production Designer of the Year Star Awards. In Art, he won the Juror’s Prize in the Artists Association of the Philippines competition in 1993. To cap a busy 1990s, he held his first solo, Bliss, at the West Gallery in 1997. Leo Abaya first graduated with a BSc in Commerce (Economics) at the Holy Name University in 1981. In 1995, he obtained his BA in Fine Arts, magnum cum laude, from the University Philippines in Diliman, and followed up with a Masters in Painting from the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton in Britain in 2004. For his film-making credentials, he had a Certificate in Short Filmmaking from the Universiti Philippines Film Centre Cinema, as part of his art programme.

        Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
      • LEO ABAYA (b. 1960) Asleep Beside The Pasig. What Are We Doing?, 2009, Serigraphy on fabric, acrylic on canvas
        Nov. 06, 2016

        LEO ABAYA (b. 1960) Asleep Beside The Pasig. What Are We Doing?, 2009, Serigraphy on fabric, acrylic on canvas

        Est: RM9,000 - RM15,000

        Artist-production designer Leo Abaya works in visual art and films that touch on current Filipino socio-political concerns.He received his BA in Fine Arts from the University Philippines in Diliman in 1995, graduating magna cum laude, and followed up with a Masters in Painting from the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton in Britain in 2004. He won Best Production Design in the 1998 Metro Manila Film Festival, besides the 1999 FAMAS Awards and the 1999 Gawad Urian for the film, Jose Rizal, and the Production Designer of the Year 1999 Star Awards for Movies. He won the Juror’s Prize in the Artists Association of the Philippines competition in 1992 and held his first art solo, Bliss, at the West Gallery in 1997.

        Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
      • LEO ABAYA (b. 1960) Junto A Las Flores; Junto A La Mujer (set of two), 2008, Acrylic and collage on canvas and silk-pina cloth blend
        Apr. 17, 2016

        LEO ABAYA (b. 1960) Junto A Las Flores; Junto A La Mujer (set of two), 2008, Acrylic and collage on canvas and silk-pina cloth blend

        Est: RM6,000 - RM7,500

        All-encompassing artist Leo Abaya makes his debut at Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers with a diptych piece depicting a nude female on the left panel seated on a chair, while holding an opium pipe on one hand and gazing intently at the viewer. The right panel illustrates a fully dressed bespectacled woman, also seated on a chair with a pipe resting between her lips looking attentively towards the viewer as well. The background is filled with colourful floral collage with sections of plain rigid shapes to create space. Leo Abaya lives and works in Quezon City, Philippines. He is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in a variety of medium. His explorations in painting, small sculptures, installations, and video inquire about history, memory, and the body. He teaches studio art at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His qualifications include BS Economics, HNU, BFA (Painting), UP College of Fine Arts Diliman; MA Fine Art (Painting), Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He complements art making with curation, set design, and filmmaking. In 2013, he wrote and directed a drama-comedy titled Instant Mommy, which was nominated for the New Breed segment at the Cinemalaya Film Festival award that same year. REFERENCE http://cargocollective.com/leoabaya/LEO-ABAYA

        Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
      • Leo Abaya (b.1960)
        Sep. 12, 2015

        Leo Abaya (b.1960)

        Est: ₱80,000 - ₱104,000

        Leo Abaya (b.1960) a.) Drill signed and dated 2009 acrylic on canvas 36” x 30”(91 cm x 76 cm) Leo Abaya (b.1960) b.) Drill signed and dated 2009 acrylic on canvas 35 1/2” x 20” (90 cm x 51 cm)

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