Biography

Barrioquinto was born in Manila

Manila

Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...

 but his family kept on switching residencies due to the nature of his father’s job who was a writer/editor.
He spent his teenage years in Hong Kong, studying at Royden House School. Then he went back to Manila to get his college education.

Andres Barrioquinto (b. 1975, Philippines) graduated in Fine Arts (Painting) from the University of Santo Tomas

University of Santo Tomas

The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines , is a private Roman Catholic university run by the Order of Preachers in Manila. Founded on April 28, 1611 by archbishop of Manila Miguel de Benavides, it has the oldest extant university charter in the...

  in 2000. A prestigious recipient of the Thirteen Artists Award (2003) bestowed by the Cultural Center of the Philippines

Cultural Center of the Philippines

The Cultural Center of the Philippines is a government-owned and controlled corporation established to preserve, develop and promote arts and culture in the Philippines. The CCP was established through Executive Order No. 30 s. 1966 by President Ferdinand Marcos...

, he has had 19 solo exhibitions in the Philippines and 5 in Singapore. His works reside in the collections of several noted collectors and the Singapore Art Museum , and he has been successfully auctioned at Sotheby's  in Hong Kong. He currently as of 2011 , paints with a complex, deeply layered and patterned style.

Artistic development

Barrioquinto started drawing at age 10, relying on his genes and the few art reproductions in his parents’ house to guide him. (Someone recently put in the market the drawings he did for Entrepreneur Philippines magazine a few years ago, selling them for P10,000 to P20,000 apiece.)

He was named one of the 13 outstanding young Filipino artists in 2003, and his awards include first prize in Metrobank’s painting competition in 1988. He is the only Filipino so far to have been cited in an international drawing competition in Taiwan (in 1999), and the only Santo Tomas alumnus to have received the school’s Benavidez Award twice (in 1999 and 2000).

Barrioquinto, 35, also set a new record for himself when his piece Arms Around Your Love (5 ft by 7 ft) sold for HK$550,000, topping the HK$500,000 that his entry in the October auction had attracted.

The other moderns

Galo B. Ocampo; Carlos V. Francisco

Carlos V. Francisco

Carlos V. Francisco , popularly known as Botong, was a muralist from Angono, Rizal.Francisco was a most distinguished practitioner of mural painting for many decades and best known for his historical pieces. He was one of the first Filipino modernists along with Galo Ocampo and Victorio C...

 (National Artist, 1973); Vicente Manansala

Vicente Manansala

Vicente Silva Manansala was a Philippine cubist painter and illustrator.Manansala was born in Macabebe, Pampanga. From 1926 to 1930, he studied at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. In 1949, Manansala received a six-month grant by UNESCO to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Banff and Montreal, Canada...

 (National Artist, 1981); Hernando R. Ocampo

Hernando R. Ocampo

Hernando R. Ocampo is a Filipino National Artist in the visual arts. He is also fictionist, a playwright and editor.-Profile of the Artist:Hernando Ruiz Ocampo was a leading radical modernist artist in the Philippines...

 (National Artist, 1991); Cesar Legaspi

Cesar Legaspi

Cesar Legaspi on April 2, 1917 in Tondo, Manila is a Filipino National Artist awardee in painting. He was also an art director prior to going full-time in his visual art practice in the 1960s. His early works, alongside those of peer, Hernando Ocampo are described as depictions of anguish and...

 (National Artist, 1990); Demetrio Diego; Diosdado Lorenzo; Jose Pardo; Ricarte Purugganan; Bonifacio Cristobal; Arsenio Capili; Anita Magsaysay-Ho.

Readings/resources

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideNews.htm?f=2011/april/25/news6.isx&d=2011/april/25
http://www.sothebys.com/fr/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2011/modern-and-contemporary-southeast-asian-paintings-hk0350#/r=/fr/ecat.fhtml.HK0350.html+r.m=/fr/ecat.lot.HK0350.html/218/
http://www.spot.ph/newsfeatures/47019/top-10-most-successful-visual-artists-in-manila