Anthony Palo
Anthony Palo was born in Antipolo City in 1984 and grew up drawing pictures from cartoons and comic books he watched and read as a child. At school, he created comic strips on notebooks which was read by his friends and drew pictures for his classmates as his first commissions. He enrolled at the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts, where he majored in painting. During this time he took interest in the works of the classical painters of the baroque and renaissance. He became a finalist at the 34th Shell National Students Art competition, Juror’s Choice Awardee- Art Strokes painting competition, andaSemi-Finalist-“Colors of Life” Cocolife Students Visual Arts Competition in 2005, and participated in various group shows in his student years.
He had his first solo exhibition of his paintings in 2009, where he merges his love for comics and cartoon imagery, classical painting influence, with underlying themes ranging from alienation, melancholy, to struggle and perseverance of an individual in society. Currently his works are leaning towards more humanoid subjects in the concept of evolution simulating a post-apocalyptic world where animal hybrids figure in their own society.
Anthony Palo was born in Antipolo City in 1984 and grew up drawing pictures from cartoons and comic books he watched and read as a child. At school, he created comic strips on notebooks which was read by his friends and drew pictures for his classmates as his first commissions. He enrolled at the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts, where he majored in painting. During this time he took interest in the works of the classical painters of the baroque and renaissance. He became a finalist at the 34th Shell National Students Art competition, Juror’s Choice Awardee- Art Strokes painting competition, andaSemi-Finalist-“Colors of Life” Cocolife Students Visual Arts Competition in 2005, and participated in various group shows in his student years.
He had his first solo exhibition of his paintings in 2009, where he merges his love for comics and cartoon imagery, classical painting influence, with underlying themes ranging from alienation, melancholy, to struggle and perseverance of an individual in society. Currently his works are leaning towards more humanoid subjects in the concept of evolution simulating a post-apocalyptic world where animal hybrids figure in their own society.