Romeo tabuena autobiography

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Romeo Tabuena is a Philippine-born painter rooted in Eastern sensibility.  He has been a resident of Mexico for more than four decades.

Born in Lloilo in , he studied architecture at the Mapua Institute of Technology and a fine arts course, majoring in painting, at the University of the Philippines. He also studied at the Art Students League in New York and at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.

Tabuena decided to settle in Mexico and to make it the base of his painting career. But he has maintained links with his native country through participation in its major art projects, and despite his long residence in Mexico, he has retained his Philippine citizenship.

One of his major works since is a government-commissioned mural, Filipiniana, at the Philippine Embassy in Washington D.C. His other exhibits include a ten-year retrospective show in at the Philippine Art Gallery in Manila. In , his successful one-man show, which was sponsored by the Philippine Government at the International Salon of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, "further elevated the status of Philippine painting in the world of contemporary art". In , he participated in the Eighth Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil as the official Filipino artist and art commissioner from the Philippines.

Tabuena held his second major one-man show in Manila in , followed by another in in Mexico City, and still another in the Galerie Bleue in Manila in

As an implementation of the cultural agreement between Mexico and the Philippines, the Philippine Embassy in a joint effort with the INBA honored Tabuena with a Millennium Show in

 He died on October 15, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
 

Biography from the Archives of AskART

 

TIMELINE

Born in Italy

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ASL, Thekla M. Barneys grant, with Will Barnet
Univ. Philippines, with Diosdado Lorenzo
Academie Grande Chaumière, Paris, with Goertz

EXHIBITIONS

Galleria de Arte Misrachi, Mexico City, Mex.
Tasende Gal., Acapulco, Mex.

Palace Fine Arts, Mexico City (solo)

Eighth Biennal Sao Paulo, MoMA, Brazil

Palace Fine Arts, Mexico City (solo)

Tabuenna Ten Yrs. Retrospective, Philippine A. Gal., Manila

Assoc Am Artists Galleries, New York (solo)

Prize Winners Show, WMAA