National artist of

the Philippines
Submitted by:Clarise Bernas
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 Fernando Cueto Amorsolo (++)
Date of Birth: May 30, 1892

Year Awarded: 1972

Category: Visual Arts – Painting

Place of Birth: Paco, Manila

Major Works:

 Babaeng nagbabasa.
 Afternoon Meal of the Workers (Noonday Meal of the Rice Workers) (1939)
 Assassination of Governor Bustamante.

Francisca Reyes-Aquino (+)

Date of Birth: March 9, 1899

Year Awarded: 1973

Category: Dance

Place of Birth: Lolomboy, Bocaue, Bulacan

Major Works:

 Gymnastics for Girls (1947)

 Dances for all Occasion (1950)
 Fundamental Dance Steps and Music (1948)

Carlos Modesto "Botong" Villaluz Francisco (++)

Date of Birth: November 4, 1912

Year Awarded: 1973

Category: Visual Arts – Painting

Place of Birth: Angono, Rizal

Major Works:

 Bayanihan sa Bukid
 Sandugo
 Portrait of Purita

Amado V. Hernandez (++)

Date of Birth: September 13, 1903
 Year Awarded: 1973

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Tondo, Manila

Major Works:

 Isang Dipang Langit.

 Panata sa Kalayaan.
 Ang Mga Kayamanan ng Tao.

Antonio J. Molina (+)

Date of Birth: 26 December 1894

Year Awarded: 1973

Category: Music

Place of Birth: Quiapo, Manila

Major Works:

 Misa Antoniana Grand Festival Mass (1964)

 Ang Batingaw (1972)
 Larawan Nitong Pilipinas

Juan Nakpil (+)

Date of Birth: May 26, 1899

Year Awarded: 1973

Category: Architecture

Place of Birth: Quiapo, Manila

Major Works:

 the Geronimo de los Reyes Building

 Magsaysay Building
 University of the Philippines Administration and University Library

Guillermo Estrella Tolentino (+)

Date of Birth: July 24, 1890

Year Awarded: 1973

Category: Visual Arts- Sculpture

 Place of Birth: Malolos, Bulacan

Major Works:

 Oblation
 Bonifacio Monument
 Pax: Statue

Jose Garcia Villa (++)

Date of Birth: August 5, 1908

Year Awarded: 1973

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Manila, Philippines

Major Works:

 Have Come Am Here (poems,1941)

 Selected Poems and New (1942)
 A Doveglion Book of Philippine Poetry (1962)

Napoleon Abueva (+)

Date of Birth: January 26, 1930

Year Awarded: 1976

Category: Visual Arts- Sculpture

Place of Birth: Tagbilaran, Bohol

Major Works:

 Kaganapan (1953)
 Kiss of Judas (1955)
 UP Gateway (1967)

Leonor Orosa-Goquingco (+)

Date of Birth: July 24, 1917

Year Awarded: 1976

Category: Dance

Place of Birth: Jolo, Sulu

Major Works:

 Legend
 Lore in Dance
  Filipinescas: Philippine Life

Lamberto Vera Avellana (++)

Date of Birth: February 12, 1915

Year Awarded: 1999

Category: Film and Theater

Place of Birth: Bontoc, Mountain Province

Major Works:

 "Anak Dalita" (1956)

 Badjao" (1957)
 Tandang Sora (1947)

NICK JOAQUIN (+)

Date of Birth: May 4, 1917

Year Awarded: 1976

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Paco, Manila

Major Works:

 Intramuros (1988) (Editor)

 Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young (1990)
 Mr. Rural Reform: The Times and Tidings of Manny Manahan (1990)

Jovita Fuentes (+)

Date of Birth: February 15, 1895

Year Awarded: 1976

Category: Music

Place of Birth: Poblacion of Capiz (now Roxas City)

Major Works:

 Sa liwanag ng buwan
 Gabing mapanglaw
 Walang angay

Victorio C. Edades (+)

Date of Birth: December 23, 1895

Year Awarded: 1976

 Category: Visual Arts- Painting

Place of Birth: Dagupan, Pangasinan

Major Works:

 Poinsettia Girl
 Portrait of a Pofessor
 The Artist and the Model

Pablo Sebero Antonio, Sr. (++)

Date of Birth: January 25, 1901

Year Awarded: 1976

Category: Architecture

Place of Birth: Binondo, Manila

Major Works:

 Ideal Theater (1933)

 White Cross Orphanage (1938)
 Far Eastern University

Vicente Silva Manansala (++)

Date of Birth: January 22, 1910

Year Awarded: 1981

Category: Visual Arts- Painting

Place of Birth: Macabebe, Pampanga

Major Works:

 Planting the First Cross

 Seal of Arellano University
 Slum Dwellers

Gerardo de León (++)

Date of Birth: September 12, 1913

Year Awarded: 1982

Category: Film

Place of Birth: Manila

Major Works:
 Estrellita (1940)
 Maestra, Ang (1941)
 Dawn of Freedom (1943)
 Carlos Peña Romulo (+)
Date of Birth: 14 January 1898

Year Awarded: 1982

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Camiling, Tarlac

Major Works:

 I Saw the Fall of the Philippines.

 Mother America
 My Brother Americans

Honorata de la Rama-Hernandez (+)

Date of Birth: January 11, 1902

Year Awarded: 1987

Category: Theater and Music

Place of Birth: Pandacan, Manila

Major Works:

 Dugong Silangan" (1930)

 Milagros ng Birhen
 Bulaklak sa Kabundukan

Col. Antonino Ramirez Buenaventura (+)

Date of Birth: 4 May 1904

Year Awarded: 1988

Category: Music

Place of Birth: Baliuag, Bulacan

Major Works:

Pandanggo sa Ilaw
Minuet (1937)
Echoes From The Philippines

Lucrecia Faustino Reyes-Urtula (+)

Date of Birth: June 29, 1929

Year Awarded: 1988

Category: Dance

Place of Birth: Iloilo City

 Major Works:

 Philippine National Dances (1946)

 Gymnastics for Girls (1947)
 Fundamental Dance Steps and Music (1948)

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (+)

Date of Birth: 31 August 1918

Year Awarded: 1989

Category: Music

Place of Birth: San Fernando, La Union

Major Works:

 Ang Pamana (The Heritage) (1966)

 The Legend of Sarimanok (1963)
 In the Beginning (1988)

Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (+)

Date of Birth: September 6, 1916

Year Awarded: 1990

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Sta. Cruz, Manila

Major Works:

 Selected Stories (1963)

 Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1979)
 The Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1991).

Cesar Torrente Legaspi (+)

Date of Birth: April 2, 1917

Year Awarded: 1990

Category: Visual Arts- Painting

Place of Birth: Tondo, Manila

Major Works:

 Kargador (1982)
 The Brave Modern
 To Naning
 Leandro V. Locsin (+)
Date of Birth: August 15, 1928

Year Awarded: 1990

Category: Architecture

Place of Birth: Silay, Negros Occidental

Major Works:

 Tanghalang Pambansa
 The Church of the Holy Sacrifice
 Philippine International Convention Center

Hernando Ruiz Ocampo(++)

Date of Birth: April 28, 1911

Year Awarded: 1991

Category: Visual Arts-Painting

Place of Birth: Sta. Cruz, Manila

Major Works:

 Ina ng Balon
 Calvary
 Slum Dwellers

Lucio D. San Pedro (+)

Date of Birth: February 11, 1913

Year Awarded: 1991

Category: Music

Place of Birth: Angono, Rizal

Major Works:

Simbang Gabi
 Lahing Kayumanggi
 Sa Ugoy ng Duyan

Catalino Ortiz Brocka (++)

Date of Birth: April 3, 1939

Year Awarded: 1997

Category: Film

Place of Birth: Pilar, Sorsogon

 Major Works:

 Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag

 Insiang (1976)
 Jaguar (1979)

Felipe Padilla de León(++)

Date of Birth: May 1, 1912

Year Awarded: 1997

Category: Music

Place of Birth: Papaya, Nueva cija

Major Works:

 Noli me Tangere (Touch me Not), opera in 3 acts (1957)

 El Filibusterismo (Subversion), opera (1970)
 Mariang Makiling Overture (1939)

Wilfrido Maria Guerrero (++)

Date of Birth: January 22, 1911

Year Awarded: 1997

Category: Theater

Place of Birth: Ermita, Manila

Major Works:

 Movie Artists
 Basketball Fight
 Wanted: A Chaperone

Rolando Santos Tinio (++)

Date of Birth: March 5, 1937

Year Awarded: 1997

Category: Theater and Literature

Place of Birth: Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila

 Major Works:
 "Laruang Kristal" (The Glass Menagerie) (1966)
 "Pahimakas sa Isang Ahente" (Death of a Salesman) (1966)
 "Paghihintay Kay Godo" (Waiting for Godot) (1967)
 Néstor Vicente Madali González (++)
Date of Birth: September 8, 1915

Year Awarded: 1997

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Romblon, Philippines

Major Works:

 "The Tomato Game".1992

 A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press, 1997
 The Bread of Salt and Other Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993; University of the
Philippines Press, 1993

Levi Celerio (+)

Date of Birth: April 30, 1910

Year Awarded: 1997

Category: Music and Literature

Place of Birth: Tondo, Manila

Major Works:

 Ang Pasko Ay Sumapit

 Ikaw
 Kahit Konting Pagtingin

Arturo Rogerio Luz

Date of Birth: November 20, 1926

Year Awarded: 1997

Category: Visual Arts- Painting

Place of Birth: Manila

Major Works:

 Boxes and Shells

 Two Figures
 Abandoned Palace India

José Montserrat Maceda (+)

Date of Birth: January 31, 1917

Year Awarded: 1997

Category: Music
 Place of Birth: Manila

Major Works:

 Distemperament for orchestra (1992)

 Colors without Rhythm for orchestra (1999)
 Sujeichon for 4 pianos (2002)

Carlos Lozada Quirino (+)

Date of Birth: 14 January 1910

Year Awarded: 1997

Category: historical Literature

Place of Birth: Manila

Major Works:

 Man of Destiny (1935)

 The Great Malayan (1940)
 Magsaysay and the Philippines (1958)

Jerry Navarro Elizalde (++)

Date of Birth: 22 May 1924

Year Awarded: 1999

Category: Visual Arts- Painting

Place of Birth: San Jose de Buenavista, Antique, Philippines

Major Works:

 Chondong The Story Teller, 1990

 The Machines Take Over, 1984
 Mai-Mai Reading the Newspaper, 1994

Ernani Joson Cuenco (++)

Date of Birth: May 10, 1936

Year Awarded: 1999

Category: Music

Place of Birth: Malolos, Bulacan

Major Works:

 Nahan, Kahit na Magtiis

 Diligin Mo ng Hamog ang Uhaw na Lupa
 Pilipinas
 Andrea Ofilada Veneracion (+)
Date of Birth: July 11, 1928

Year Awarded: 1999

Category: Music

Place of Birth: Manila, Philippines

Major Works:

 Founder of the Philippine Madrigal Singers

 Founding choirmaster and first conductor of the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music (AILM) Chorale.

Edith L. Tiempo (+)

Date of Birth: April 22, 1919

Year Awarded: 1999

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya

Major Works:

 A Blade of Fern (1978)

 His Native Coast (1979)
 The Alien Corn (1992)

Daisy Avellana (+)

Date of Birth: January 26, 1917

Year Awarded: 1999

Category: Theater

Place of Birth: Capiz, Capiz (now Roxas city)

Major Works:

 Othello (1953)
 Macbeth in Black (1959)
 Casa de Bernarda Alba (1967)

Ishmael Bernal (++)

Date of Birth: 30 September 1938

Year Awarded: 2001

Category: Film

Place of Birth: Manila, Philippines

 Major Works:

 Nunal sa Tubig (1976)

 City After Dark (1980)
 Himala (1982)

Severino Montano (++)

Date of Birth: 3 January 1915

Year Awarded: 2001

Category: Theater

Place of Birth: Laoag, Ilocos Norte

Major Works:

 The Love of Leonor Rivera (poetic tragedy in two-parts)

 My Morning Star (poetic historical tragedy in three-parts)
 Gabriela Silang (poetic historical tragedy in three-parts)

Francisco Sionil José

Date of Birth: 3 December 1924

Year Awarded: 2001

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Rosales, Pangasinan

Major Works:

 Three Filipino Women (1992)

 Two Filipino Women (1981)
 The Feet of Juan Bacnang (2011)

Ang Kiukok (+)

Date of Birth: March 1, 1931

Year Awarded: 2001

Category: Visual Arts – Painting

Place of Birth: Davao, Davao Province

Majors Works:

 Still Life (1951, Honorable mention)

 Still Life in Red (1963, Third Prize)
 The Bird (1959, First Prize)
 José T. Joya (++)
Date of Birth: June 3, 1931

Year Awarded: 2003

Category: Visual Arts – Painting

Place of Birth: Manila, Philippines

Major Works:

 Nanking (a collage rendered with Asian calligraphy and forms and patterns resembling rice paddies)
 Granadean Arabesque (1958)
 Biennial (1964)

Virgilio Senadrin Almario

Date of Birth: March 9, 1944

Year Awarded: 2003

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Bulacan

Major Works:

 Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina (1972)

 Palipad-Hangin. (1985)
 Katon Para sa Limang Pandama. (1987)

Alejandro Reyes Roces (+)

Date of Birth: 13 July 1924

Year Awarded: 2003

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Manila, Philippines

Major Works:

 Of Cocks and Kites (1959)

 Fiesta (1980)
 Something to Crow About (2005)

Edgar Sinco Romero (+)

Date of Birth: July 7, 1924

Year Awarded: 2003

Category: Film and Broadcast Arts

Place of Birth: ???

 Major Works:

 Lost Battalion (1960)

 The Raiders of Leyte Gulf (1963)
 The Walls of Hell (1964)

Salvador Floro Bernal (+)

Date of Birth: January 7, 1945

Year Awarded: 2003

Category: Theater and Design

Place of Birth: Dagupan, Philippines

Major Works:

 Philippine Association of Theatre Designers and Technicians (Patdat) (1995)

 “King Lear” with the Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta)
 “Dalagang Bukid” by Hermogenes Ilagan

Benedicto Cabrera
Date of birth: (April 10, 1942)

Year awarded:2006

Category: Visual Arts – Painting

Place of Birth: Isabel Reyes in Malabon, Philippine

Major works:

 Mother and Child

 Picasso Nude
 Rebel

Abdulmari Imao (+)

Date of Birth: 14 January 1936

Year awarded:2006

Category: Visual Arts – Sculpture

Place of Birth: Siasi, Sulu

Major works:

 Sarimanok ng Bayan na Mapayapa

 Industry Brass Mural, Philippine National Bank, San Fernando, La Union.
 Mural Relief on Filmmaking, Manila City Hall.
 Bienvenido Lumbera
Date of birth: April 11, 1932.

Year awarded:2006

Category: Literature

Place of birth: Lipa, Batangas

Major works:

 Hibik at Himagsik Nina Victoria Laktaw

 Apat na Dulang May Musik
 Rama, Hari

Ramon Obusan(+)
Date of birth: (June 16, 1938)

Year awarded: 2006

Category: Dance

Place of birth: Legazpi, Albay

Major Works

 Vamos a Belen!
 Noon Po sa Amin, tableaux of Philippine History in song, drama and dance.
 Obra Maestra, a collection of Ramon Obusan's dance masterpieces.

Ildefonso P. Santos Jr.(+)

Date of birth: September 5, 1929

Year awarded: 2006

Category: Architecture – Landscape

Place of Birth: Malabon

Major Works:

 Cultural Center of the Philippines complex

 San Miguel Corporation Building.
 Rizal Park.

Fernando Poe Jr.(++)

Date of birth: (August 20, 1939)

Year awarded: 2006

Category: Film
 Place of Birth: Manila

Major Works:

 Muslim Magnum 357

 Ang Panday
 Dito sa Pitong Gatang

Ramon Valera(++)
Date of Birth: August 31, 1912

Year awarded:2006

Category: Architecture, Design and Allied Arts - Fashion Design

Place of Birth: Abra, Philippines

Major work:

 GLAMOROUS. Dresses worn by Elvira Manahan and Gretchen Cojuangco

 STRIKING TERNOS. National artist Ramon Valera
 INTRICATE. A fully beaded dress designed for Gretchen Cojuangco

Manuel Conde(++)
Date of birth: October 9, 1915

Year awarded: 2009

Category: Film and Broadcast Arts

Place of Birth: Daet, Camarines Norte

Major Work:

 Ibong Adarna (1941)

 Juan Tamad (1947)
 Siete Infantes de Lara (1950)

Lázaro Francisco(++)
Date of Birth: (February 22, 1898)

Year awarded: 2009

Category: Literature

Place of birth: Orani, Bataan

Major work:

 “Binhi at Bunga” (1925)

 “Cesar” (1926
  “Ama” (1929)

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz(++)

Date of Birth: June 6, 1932

Year awarded: 2009

Category: Visual Arts - Painting, Sculpture and Mixed Media

Place of Birth: Sta. Cruz, Manila

Major works:

 Abstract with Red and Blue

 Abstract with Black and Yellow
 Abstract with Red & Green" by National Artist Federico Aguilar-Alcuaz

Alice Reyes
Date of Birth: October 14, 1942

Year awarded: 2014

Category: Dance

Place of Birth: Manila

Major works:

 Rama Hari
 Mga Babae
 Itim-Asu

Francisco Coching(++)
Date of birth: January 29, 1919

Year awarded: 2014

Category: Visual Arts

Place of Birth: Pasay City, Metro Manila

Major work:

 Pedro Penduko
 Tiagong Lundag
 Hagibis

Cirilo F. Bautista(+)
 Date of Birth: July 9, 1941

Year awarded: 2014

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Manila

Major works:

 The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus


The Archipelago (1970)
 Sunlight on Broken Stones

Francisco Feliciano(+)
Date of birth: 19 February 1941

Year awarded: 2014

Category: Music

Place of Birth: Morong, Rizal

Major works:

 La Loba Negra
 Yerma
 Jose Abad Santos

Ramon Santos
Date of Birth: 25 February 1941

Year awarded:2014

Category: Music

Place of birth: Pasig

Major worka:

 Strata
 Enredo De Amor
 Sujeichon

José María V. Zaragoza(++)

Date of Birth: December 6, 1912

Year awarded:2014

Category: Architecture

Place of birth: Quiapo, Manila

 Major works:

 The Santo Domingo Church and Convent in Quezon City

 St. John Bosco Parish Church
 MERALCO Building
 Ryan Cayabyab
Date of Birth: May 4, 1954

Year awarded: 2018

Category: Music

Place of birth: Manila

Major Work:

 Bato sa Buhangin
 Ikaw
 Ikaw ang Mahal Ko

Francisco Mañosa(++)
Date of birth: February 12, 1931

Year awarded:2018

Category: Architecture and Allied Arts

Place of birth: Manila

Major works:

o Coconut Palace
o EDSA Shrine
o Davao Pearl Farm

Ramon Muzones(++)
Daye of birth: March 20, 1913

Year awarded: 2018

Category: Literature

Place of birth: Iloilo City

Major works:

 Hiligaynon
 Kuting-Kuting sa Kudyapi
 Tibud nga Bulawan

Resil Mojares
Date of birth: 4 September 1943
 Year awarded:2018

Category: Literature

Place of Birth: Zamboanga del Norte

Major works:

 House of Memory
 War against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu, 1899–1906
 Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays in Philippine Cultural History

Larry Alcala(++)
Date of Birth: August 18, 1926

Year awarded:2018

Category: Visual Arts

Place of birth: Daraga, Albay

Major works:

 Mang Ambo
 Kalabog en Bosyo
 International Cartoons, Athens, Greece (1980)

Amelia Lapeña Bonifacio

Date of Birth: April 4, 1930

Year awarded:2018

Category: Theater

Place of birth:Manila

Major work:

 In Binondo, Once Upon a War

 Rooms
 Sepang Loca

Kidlat Tahimik
Date of Birth: October 3, 1942

Year awarded: 2018

Category: Film and Broadcast Arts

 Place of birth: Baguio City, Philippines

Major work:

o Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux (2015)

o Turumba (1983)
o Who Invented the Yoyo?