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My painting process articulates what cannot be depicted in recognizable form.

Biography

Sio Montera is a visual-artist from the Philippines. His own brand of process-oriented abstraction narrates the sights, interactions, and experiences that are masterfully translated onto the canvas using acrylics and non-traditional tools. He experiments with industrial processes that lend an esoteric yet grounded feel to his paintings. The artist finds it essential to dissociate the process of image-making from any preconceived idea, thus createing non-representational art that are characterized by open color fields, excoriated layers, and gestural marks of varying intensity. The artist has an MFA in painting and a PhD in  creative industries design. 


Education

2014-2019 Ph.D. in Creative Industries Design NCKU-ICID Tainan, Taiwan
2001-2004 Master in Fine Arts UP Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
1990-1996 Bachelor in Fine Arts UP Cebu City, Philippines
Sio Montera

The artist at work

Solo Expositions


2019 Buried Feelings Come to Rise Tokyo International Art Fair, Japan

2018 Un/Painting Qube Gallery Cebu City, Philippines

2017 A State of Introspection Qube Gallery Cebu City, Philippines

2016 Solo Exhibition Tokyo International Art Fair, Japan

2015 In Situ Qube Gallery Cebu City, Philippines

2014 One Man Sio Qube Gallery Cebu City, Philippines

2013 Freedom of Expression Renaissance Gallery Mandaluyong City, Philippines

2013 DefiniSion Contemporary Gallery Mandaue City, Philippines

2012 AbstracSionista Renaissance Gallery Manadaluyong City, Philippines

2012 Foto+Abstraction 3 Bluewater Gallery Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines

2011 SakripiSio SM Art Center Mandaluyong City, Philippines

2010 Sio on Canvas Canvas Bistro Gallery Cebu City, Philippines

2010 ExecuSion Renaissance Gallery Mandaluyong City, Philippines

2009 AbstracSion 2 Bluewater Gallery Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines

2009 Aftermath Renaissance Gallery Mandaluyong City, Philippines

2008 Free Form Art Center Cebu City, Philippines

2007 Eight for Eight Art Center Cebu City, Philippines

2006 Evolution Art Center Cebu City, Philippines

2006 AbstracSion Bluewater Gallery Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines

2005 Consciousness Art Center Cebu City, Philippines

2004 Penitensya Cultural Center of the Philippines Pasay City, Philippines

2004 Recent Works Renaissance Gallery Mandaluyong City, Philippines

2000 One Man Sio Waterfront Hotel Cebu City, Philippines

Collective Expositions


2019 Little Treasures Galleri de Marchi, Bologna, Italy

2017 Unique Realities Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

2017 Little Treasures Galleri de Marchi, Bologna, Italy

2016 Little Treasures Galleri de Marchi, Bologna, Italy

2015 Cross-Cultural Impressions An-Ping District Cultural Exhibition Center, Tainan, Taiwan

2014 Giving Back Art The Space Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2013 Art Trek Forest Rain Gallery, Waterloo St., Singapore

2013 Grand Soiree Philippine Association Le Cent, Établissement Culturel Solidaire, Paris, France

2013 Festival 12x12, 12 Regards D’ Artistes Paris, France

2012 Beijing International Art Biennale Beijing, China

2011 East Java Fine Art Biennale Surabaya, Indonesia

2011 Asian International Art Exhibition Hangaram Gallery Seoul, South Korea

Residencies


2013 Artist in Residence, Association Le Cent, Établissement Culturel Solidaire 100 Rue de Charenton, 75012 Paris, France

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