Artists Profile - Noel Pama

    Noel Oafericua Pama
    Visual/ Performance Artist

    Philippines

    Address: 49 unit-G Betty-Go Belmonte, Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines 1109
    Phone: +63917-8898103
    E-mail: noel_pamasr@yahoo.com
    Citizenship: Filipino

    Education: Technological University of the Philippines (Drafting Technology)
    Largely self-educated in Visual Arts

    Affiliations: Asia Art Link 2010 Pilipinas- Organizing Committee
    Asia-Art Link- Philippine Representative to Southeast Asia
    Bamboo Village International Art Workshop, Jiaosi, Yilan County, Taiwan
    Art Association of the Philippines
    Philippine International Performance Art Festival
    Sasaran Int’l Art Camp (Selangor, Malaysia, www.sasaranarts.org)

    Solo Show: “Nocturnal Labyrinth”
    August 14-31, 2008, Artesan Gallery+Studio, Singapore

    Selected Group Exhibitions:

    2010 “Linking the Dreams” Asia Art Link 2010 Pilipinas
    Contemporary Art Exhibition from Southeast Asia
    Cultural Center of the Philippines

    2009 “Top of the World: Asia Art Link Exhibition”
    Taipei 101 Observatory, Taiwan

    2009 “ReBORN” H2 Gallery
    Central Java, Indonesia

    2008 “Asia-Art-Link” First Contemporary Art Exhibition
    Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

    2005 “Malaysia-Vietnam-Philippines Cultural Art Exchange Exhibition”
    Wisma Kebudayaan SGM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Awards and Distinctions:

    Honorable Mention- Representational Category (Abot-tanaw)
    2011 GSIS National Painting Competition

    Honorable Mention- Painting Category (Nuestra Señora Abot-kaya)
    2008 Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition

    Third Prize (Sibol)
    2007 GSIS National Painting Competition

    Finalist- Painting Category (Ugoy)
    2007 Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition

    Honorable Mention- Fine Art Photography (Juan Way: One Way)
    2006 Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition

    Finalist (Butil)
    2006 The 2nd PDSI Drawing Competition, Phil. Drawing Society, Inc.

    First Prize
    2005 WebGising Digital Art Contest, Theme: “Fiscal Crisis”
    National Commission for Culture and the Arts

    Second Prize
    2005 WebGising Digital Art Contest, Theme: “Environment”
    National Commission for Culture and the Arts

    Honorable Mention (Convergence)
    2005 Government Service Insurance System Painting Competition

    Honorable Mention- Painting Category (Hawla)
    2005 Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition

    Honorable Mention- Mixed Media Category (Cybernetics)
    2003 Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition

    First Prize- Digital Art Category (Dances with Turbulence)
    2002 Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition

    First Honorable Mention- Drawing Category
    2002 Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition

    Third Prize (Soaring High)
    2002 AMA-AAP on-the-spot Painting Contest

    Third Prize (At the Café)
    2001 Westin Philippine Plaza-AAP on-the-spot Painting Contest

    Finalist (Eksploytasyon)
    2000 Philippine Art Awards, Metropolitan Museum

    Third Prize- Sculpture Category (Babae)
    1999 AAP Annual Art Competition

    Winner- Commemorative Stamp Design Competition
    1998 AAP 50th Anniversary, Metropolitan Museum of Manila

    Winner
    1997 Landbank Mural Design Competition

    Third Prize- Sculpture Category (Rehas)
    1996 AAP Annual Art Competition


    Selected Live Art Performances:

    “Palayok” Cultural Center of the Philippines (15 min)

    “A Call for Unity” 4th Philippine International Performance Art Festival (15 min)

    “Banyaga” Kanlungan ng Sining (2 min)

    “We Breathe One Air” Soka Gakkai Malaysia (20 min)

    “In Search” (collaboration) Halong Bay, Vietnam (15 min)

    “Isang Dipa” Tupada Revolt, Dagupan City (15 min)

    “Journey” Selangor, Malaysia (15 min)



    Filipino artist Noel Pama studied Drafting Technology at the Technological University of the Philippines and used to serve as the managing partner and Art Director of a serigraph printing firm in Manila from 1993 to 2007, before deciding to pursue a career as a full-time artist in 2008.


    Largely self-taught in painting and art’s traditions, he began engaging himself in the art scene as early as 1996—alongside his business career—joining various national art competitions in which he reaped numerous awards and citations from the Art Association of the Philippines, Landbank of the Philippines, GSIS Museum of the Arts, National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Philippine Art Awards, among others.

    Figurative and stylized characters, with a noticeable sideway gaze, elongated limbs, and poignant gestures, often graced the surface of his paintings… characters who seem to be moving within the still canvas, appearing and vanishing from the background…imagined characters residing beneath the artist’s psyche that have come to life through his masterful artistic techniques drawn mostly from Renaissance and Mannerist renditions.

    Also prominent in his works are images of alluring women placed in different settings—from night clubs, to rooftops that turned into safe havens amidst strong floods and winds, inside a home, and can go as surreal as placing his figure on a flying road concrete—as a way to explore concepts and issues concerning women, their plights, their value and role in society, and perhaps more fundamentally, their role in the persistence of humanity as bearers and nurturers of life.

    Pama continues to enrich his artistic practice, exploring the use of different media and engaging in live art performances. He has participated in notable group exhibitions in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and Taiwan, and remains an active member of the Asia Art Link, an international art organization envisioned and initiated by artists from Southeast Asia. In the last quarter of 2010, Pama and his co-members from the Philippines organized and hosted the third Asia Art Link Contemporary Art Exhibition: “Linking the Dreams” held at the Cultural
    Center of the Philippines.

    Of his art-making, the artist says, “I fix my gaze on what is unseen rather than on what is seen. My creative juices spring from my sensibilities with everyday life, the truths on socio-political events, and the reviving pulsation of dreams and visions.”


    “Anyo” TutoK PerspeKtiba, Hardin ng mga Diwata, University of the Philippines (10 min)

    “Beinteng Kalayaan” Agora Public Market (durational)