FAMOUS FILIPINO SCULPTORS

Napoleón Isabelo Veloso Abueva (born January 26, 1930), more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He is the only Boholano given the distinction as National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts. His works include "The Sculpture", which is installed in the United Nations headquarters in New York City. His other works are Kaganapan, Kiss of Judas, Thirty Pieces of Silver, The Transfiguration and many more.

Arturo Rogerio Luz (born November 20, 1926) is

a Philippine National Artist awardee in visual arts.

He is also a

known printmaker,sculptor, designer and art

administrator. A founding member of the modern

Neo-realist school in Philippine art, he received the

National Artist Award, the country's highest

accolade in the arts, in 1997.

Luz has produced art pieces through a disciplined

economy of means. His early drawings were

described as "playful linear works" influenced

by Paul Klee. His best masterpieces are minimalist,

geometric abstracts, alluding to the modernist

"virtues" of competence, order and elegance; and

were further described as evoking universal reality

and mirrors an aspiration for an acme of true Asian

modernity. He sculpted the stainless steel cube in

front of the Benguet Mining Corporation Building in

Pasig City.

Guillermo Estrella Tolentino – His works include the

UP Oblation, and the Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan

City. His other works include bronze figures of President

Manuel Quezon, busts of Jose Rizal, and a marble

statue of Pres. Ramon Magsaysay which is installed in

the GSIS Building. He also did the official seal of the

Republic of the Philippines.

Abdulmari Asia Imao is a Filipino sculptor. Imao was named National Artist of the Philippines for Sculpture in 2006. A Tausūg, Imao is the first Moro to receive the recognition. Aside from being a sculptor, Imao is also a painter, photographer, ceramist, cultural researcher, documentary film maker, writer, and a patron of Philippine Muslim art and culture.

His works include the Industry Brass Mural installed at the Philippine

National Bank in La Union, the Mural Relief on Filmmaking at the

Manila City Hall, the Industrial Mural at the Central Bank of the

Philippines in La Union, and Sulu Warriors, which are statues of

Paglima Unaid and Captain Abdurahim Imao installed at the Sulu

Provincial Capitol. 

Eduardo Castrillo (born October 31, 1942) is an award-winning Filipino sculptor. He was born in Santa Ana, Manila, the youngest of five children of Santiago Silva Castrillo, a jeweler, and Magdalena De Los Santos, a leading actress in Zarzuelas and Holy Week pageants  in Makati, Philippines. Castrillo was a Republic Cultural Heritage awardee. He is also a jewelry artist and designer. His works are mostly large welded metal sculptures displayed at the Manila Memorial Park 

Isabelo Tampinco – His works are mostly inside the churches of Intramuros, particularly the Manila Cathedral and San Agustin Church.

Rey Paz Contreras (born August 31, 1950) is a prominent Filipino sculptor working with urban refuse and environmental materials as artistic media. He is inspired by the indigenous Filipino culture and creates visual forms of contemporary images that explore a distinct Filipino aesthetics. Contreras' pioneered the exercise of travieza or hardwood railroad tracks through the late 70s. 

Anastacio Tanchauco Caedo (14 August 1907 – 12 May

1990) was a Filipino sculptor and one of the Philippines'

greatest sculptors. His style of sculpture was classical

realist in the tradition of his mentor, Guillermo Tolentino.

His best known works include the MacArthur Landing site

in Palo Red Beach, Leyte; the Benigno Aquino Monument

which was originally at the corner of Ayala Avenue and

Paseo de Roxas in Makati; the Bonifacio Monument in

Pugad Lawin, Balintawak; and numerous statues of Jose

Rizal, most notably the ones displayed in Philippine

embassies throughout the world. He produced

numerous commissioned representational sculptures

mainly monuments of national heroes and successful

Filipino politicians, businessmen, and educators.

Caedo is also notable for having refused the honor of

being awarded a National Artist of the Philippines - in

1983, 1984, and 1986.

Ray Mudjahid Ponce Millan, better known as Kublai Millan or Kublai is a prolific artist from Mindanao. He is known for his giant sculptures. Aside from being a sculptor he is also a art photographer, painter, digital artist and performance artist.

Ben-Hur Villanueva is a Filipino sculptor, painter, educator, lecturer,

and art entrepreneur based in Baguio City, and was one of the artists

who first established the Baguio Arts Guild.

He has also served as a president for the Society of Philippine

Sculptors (SPS), as Art director for the Ephpheta Foundation for the

Blind, Inc., and as vice president-treasurer for Unesco’s International

Art Association (IAA).