Beloosesky Gallery is interested in purchasing paintings and drawings by Romeo Tabuena.
Please call (917) 749-4557 or email us at info@beloosesky.com
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 1921, 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 1957 is a government-commissioned mural, Filipiniana, at the Philippine Embassy in Washington D.C. His other exhibits include a ten-year retrospective show in 1959 at the Philippine Art Gallery in Manila. In 1962, 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 1965, 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 1973, followed by another in 1975 in Mexico City, and still another in the Galerie Bleue in Manila in 1981.
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 2000.
He died on October 15, 2015 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Biography from the Archives of AskART
TIMELINE
1921
Born in Italy
1952–1953
ASL, Thekla M. Barneys grant, with Will Barnet
Univ. Philippines, with Diosdado Lorenzo
Academie Grande Chaumière, Paris, with Goertz
EXHIBITIONS
1970
Galleria de Arte Misrachi, Mexico City, Mex.
Tasende Gal., Acapulco, Mex.
1969
Palace Fine Arts, Mexico City (solo)
1965
Eighth Biennal Sao Paulo, MoMA, Brazil
1962
Palace Fine Arts, Mexico City (solo)
1959
Tabuenna Ten Yrs. Retrospective, Philippine A. Gal., Manila
1953
Assoc Am Artists Galleries, New York (solo)
1953
Prize Winners Show, WMAA