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Biography

Manuel Ocampo (born 1965) is a Filipino artist. His work fuses sacred Baroque religious iconography with secular political narrative. His works draw upon quite a lot of paintings historic references, comprise cartoonish components, and draw inspiration from punk subculture. Ocampo’s work has been included in quite a few worldwide surveys, along with the 2004 Seville Biennale, 2001 Venice Biennale, the 2001 Berlin Biennale, the 2000 Biennale d’paintings Contemporain de Lyon, the 1997 Kwangju Biennial, the 1993 Corcoran Biennial, and 1992’s controversial Documenta IX. His work was featured in a number of group reveals throughout the Nineties, along with Helter Skelter: LA Art of the Nineties, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1992; Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art on the Asia Society, New York in 1994; American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation at Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo in 1997; Pop Surrealism on the Aldrich Museum of Artin 1998; and Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2000. He has obtained quite a few prestigious grants and awards, along with the Giverny Residency (1998), the Rome Prize on the American Academy (1995–96), National Endowment for the Arts (1996), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1995) and Art Matters Inc. (1991)..

Manuel Ocampo has exhibited extensively all by means of the Nineties, with solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions by means of Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In 2005, his work was the subject of an enormous-scale survey at Casa Asia in Barcelona, and Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France.