Poklong Anading Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1975 -

Poklong Anading b. 1975, Manila, Philippines

Anading is one of the finest artists of his generation, having won the Ateneo Art Awards twice, in 2006 and 2008. He works in various media including video, installation, and photography and has been exhibited and included in the permanent collections of various museums both locally and internationally, among these the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Pokong Anading began as a painter, but has expanded his practice to video, photography, and process-oriented sculpture and installation. In 2006, he received the Ateneo Studio Residency Grant in Australia, and a Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artists Award. The Guggenheim acquired Anading’s Counter Acts (2004), a group portrait photograph in which the subjects hold mirrors up to the camera, reflecting a blinding constellation of light toward the viewer. Anading’s works were presented in the two-person exhibition Between Signs at Silverlens Gallery in Makati City (2011). Anading organized and participated in Room 307: Inkling, Gutfeel and Hunch at the National Art Gallery in Manila (2008). He has been included in notable group exhibitions including the Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2002 and 2012). Anading lives and works in Manila.