Ateneo Art Gallery

The Ateneo Art Gallery is a museum of present day art of the Ateneo de Manila University. It is the primary of its kind in the Philippines. It serves as an artwork resource for the college community and the majority as properly. The Gallery is located on the Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. The Ateneo Art Gallery holds over 500 artworks that include paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, pics and posters.

The collection traces its roots to the past due Fernando Zobel 1920 to 1984. Painter, art pupil and teacher on the Ateneo, Zobel donated over two hundred artistic endeavors to shape a look at collection for university students. First housed in Bellarmine Hall in 1961, it moved to the floor floor of Rizal Library in 1967, and lately moved to the Arts Wing in Areté on October 1, 2017. Widely recognized nowadays because the first museum of Philippine present day art, The Ateneo Art Gallery was mounted in 1960 thru Fernando Zobel’s bequest to the Ateneo of his series of works by means of key Filipino put up struggle artists. Through the years different philanthropists and artists followed Zobel’s initiative, filling within the gaps in order that the collection now surveys each Philippine artwork motion in the post war era: from neo-realism and abstract expressionism to today’s post-contemporary hybrid tendencies.