SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Professorial Lecturer, undergraduate and graduate courses in Painting and Visual Studies.
MFA Degree in Painting with graduate credits in Media Studies and Museum Studies.
Extensive record of local, regional and international exhibitions.
Fulbright Fellow, MFA in Painting
Recipient of awards and distinctions in the visual arts.

EDUCATION
1992 M.F.A. State University of New York at Buffalo, Major in Painting
1982 B.F.A. University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts, Major in Painting

PROFESSIONAL / TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1993 U.P. College of Fine Arts Studio Arts Dept., Diliman, Quezon City. Professorial Lecturer

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Taksu, 43 Jalan Merah Sega, Singapore. Doppelgangers
2011 Total Gallery, Alliance Francaise de Manille, Makati City. New Works
Taksu, 17 Jalan Pawang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Doppelgangers
2009 Mag:net Gallery Katipunan, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. Datum Plane: Reaction Series
Pablo Gallery Fort, South of Market Condominium, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Metro Manila
Recent Paintings and Collages
2008 Finale Gallery, Pasong Tamo, Makati City. Theatre of Disguise
Mag:net Gallery Katipunan, Quezon City. Ellipses
2007 Mag:net Gallery Katipunan, Quezon City. Flatbed Stories
2006 Mag:net Gallery Katipunan. Quezon City. "This Is Not A Gregor SchneiderRoom"
2004 Mag:net Gallery Paseo, Paseo Center, Makati City, Metro Manila. Doing Time
2003 Finale Gallery, SM Megamall, Metro Manila. Scanning the Mall: Seduction and Terror
Magnet Gallery and Kitchen: a two-venue exhibition. Quezon City and Mandaluyong City.
Fast-food Cotan
2002 Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Metro Manila. Mirror Painting
2001 Big Sky Mind, New Manila, Quezon City. New Work: Lost Regions
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, M.M. Instructions
DLSU Art Gallery, De La Salle University, Taft Ave., Metro Manila. Access/Deaccess
2000 Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall. Meetings
Australia Cultural Center, Makati City, Metro Manila. The Golden Cargo Trading Company:
Import/Export. (Objects from Manila and Australia)
1999 Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall. New Works
Brix Gallery, Makati City, M.M. Code
1998 Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall. Not A Trace
1997 Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall. Recent Collages
1996 Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall. 14 Works
1995 La Gallerie, Alliance Francaise de Manille, Makati City, M.M. Index
West Gallery, SM Megamall. Collage
1994 Small Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. Recent Diggings
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall. Collages
1993 West Gallery, Quezon City, M.M. Whole Objects
1992 Just Pasta Restaurant, Buffalo, New York. Just Gerardo
Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, New York. MFA Thesis Exhibition
1991 Calumet Gallery, Buffalo, New York. New Paintings
1990 Brix Gallery, Makati City, M.M. Recent Works
1987 Small Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. Address Unknown
1985 Pinaglabanan Galleries at La Tasca. Makati City, M.M. Recent Paintings
1983 Sining Kamalig Gallery, Pasay City, M.M. Current Events
1982 Museum Hallway, Cultural Center of the Philippines. Surfaces

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Finale Gallery, Pasong Tamo St., Makati City. Imagining Identity (100 Filipino Self-Portraits
from the Paulino Que Collection)
Lost Projects, 18A Major Dizon, Marikina City, Metro Manila. Picture Assembly
2011 8. Salon, Trommelstrasse 7, Hamburg-St. Pauli. Greatest Hits: Bastards of Misrepresentation -
Doing Time on Filipino Time
2010 Manila Contemporary. Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati City. Painting with a hammer to nail the crotch
of Civilization.
Galerie Zimmerman-Kratochwill. Graz, Austria. Inversion of the Ideal
Silverlens Gallery. Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati City. Blind Field: Photography and Place
Freies Museum. Berlin, Germany. Bastards of Misrepresentation: Doing Time on Filipino Time
Skyline College Gallery. San Bruno, CA, USA. Free-range Aesthetics: Pussyfooting through the
Detritus Mind Field of Reality.
Manila Contemporary, Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati City. The Unamable
2009 MOP Projects, Gallery 1. Abercrombie Street, Sydney, Australia. How's My Painting?
Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City/ La Trobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo/ UTS Gallery, Sydney.
Beyond frame: Philippine Photomedia
Manila Contemporary, Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati City. Seeing You, Seeing Me: Contemporary
Portraiture
MoSpace, Fort Bonifacio High Street, Taguig, Metro Manila. Maria Cruz, David Griggs, Raul
Rodriguez and Gerardo Tan
2008 Finale Gallery, La Fuerza Compound, Pasong Tamo Makati City. Inaugural Show, Part 3.
2007 MoSpace. Fort Bonifacio High Street, Taguig, Metro Manila. "I have nothing to paint and I am
painting it"
2006 Finale Gallery, SM Megamall. "Indiscrete Charm of the Burlesque"
John Worth Ryder Gallery. UC Berkeley, USA. Manila Envelope
Galleria Duemila, Pasay City, Metro Manila. Specific Gravities 2
2004 Future Prospects, Marikina Shoe Expo, Cubao, Quezon City. Other Matters
Vargas Museum, UP Diliman. Picturing Painting
2003 Mag:net Gallery, Quezon City, Metro Manila. Cut: New Collage
Art Center, SM Megamall. Picture This
Vargas Museum, UP Diliman, Quezon City. Divine Intervention: A collaboration with Gaston
Damag and Manuel Ocampo
2002 Project 1, Gwangju Bienniale Hall. The 4th Gwanju Biennale, Korea. Pause
Sculpture Square, Singapore. Xs-XL, Expanding Art
Art Center, SM Megamall. Conversations
2001 Art Center, SM Megamall, Guilty Pleasure
Ayala Museum, Makati City, M.M. Space Meeting Place
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. Faith and the City
2000 SM Art Center, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, M.M. Cracks and Abysses
Ayala Museum Gallery III, Makati City, M.M. Peripheral Visions
1999 Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, Australia. The First Melbourne International
Biennial. Philippine Pavilion: The Golden Cargo Trading Company
1998 SM Art Center. Illumined Pleasures
Soumak, Makati City, M.M. et al
1997 Art Center, SM Megamall. Ground Zero
West Gallery, Quezon City, M.M. Perishable Goods
West Gallery, Quezon City. The Miter, The Plumbing Trap, God,and Other Matters
1996 Art Center, SM Megamall. Dangerous Metaphors
West Gallery, Quezon City. Unglued
1995 Metropolitan Museum of Manila. Ako: Self-Portrait
Cultural Center of the Philippines. Painting by Numbers
Art Center, SM Megamall. Measure and Metaphor
1993 Art Center, SM Megamall. Recent Works
Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. Facts and Figures
1992 Gallery XX Century, Buffalo, NY. Perdiguero & Tan: Drawings and Wall Constructions
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY. X Sightings
Bethune Gallery, SUNY at Buffalo Art Department. Modern/Postmodern
Albright Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo, NY. The 44th Western New York Exhibition
Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY. The M&T Bank Collection for Burchfield Art Center:
1990-1991 Acquisitions
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY. Expose Yourself
1991 Bethune Gallery, SUNY at Buffalo Art Department. The Graduate Show
Calumet Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Many Voices
Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Recent Works (Arvidson, Perdiguero & Tan)
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY, USA. Fire and Ice
1990 Bethune Gallery, SUNY Art Department. The Graduate Exhibitionists
Pusan Art Association, Pusan, Korea. The 5th Pusan Biennial
1989 Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. Sikat: Two Decades of Philippine Art
Finale Art Gallery, Makati City, M.M. Small Works
1988 Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. 13 Artists Exhibition
1987 Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. Side A/Side B
1986 National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea. Contemporary Asian Art Show
Osmani Memorial Hall, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The 3rd Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh
Finale Art Gallery, Makati City, M.M. New Works (Paintings of Antonio & Tan)
1985 Pinaglabanan Gallery, San Juan, M.M. Recent Abstractions
Small Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. Object/Non Object
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka City, Japan. The 2nd Asian Art Show
1984 Metropolitan Gallery, Manila. Group Exhibition
Sining Kamalig Gallery, Pasay City, M.M. 1 x 1
Pinaglabanan Galleries, San Juan, M.M. 33 Artists
1983 Small Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. Quiet Spaces
The Dirty Room, U.P. College of Fine Arts, Diliman. Happy Birthday Duchamp
Museum of Philippine Art, Manila. 6 Young Artists
1982 Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. CCP Annual '82
Sining Kamalig/Regent of Manila, Roxas Blvd, Manila. 4 Young Artists
1981 Philamlife Hall, Malate, M.M. Art Association of the Philippines 34th Show
Museum Hallway, Cultural Center of the Philippines. Selected Prints
1980 Third Level Gallery, SM Cubao, Quezon City, M.M. Works On Paper
Goethe Haus, San Juan, M.M. U.P. College of Fine Arts Annual
Small Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines. An Exhibition in 3 Parts


AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
1999 The Ist Melbourne International Biennial. The Philippine Pavilion, Ian Potter Museum,
University of Melbourne, Australia. Philippine Representative
1997 Art Association of the Philippines Annual Competition, Manila. Juror's Choice Award
1992 Albright Knox Art Gallery, The 44th Western New York Exhibition, Buffalo, NY.
The Barbara Schuller Art Associates Award
1990 State University of New York at Buffalo, M.F.A. in Painting. Fellow Fulbright-Hays
1988 Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. 13 Artists Awardee
1986 Osmani Memorial Hall, The 3rd Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Best Entry Award
1982 Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka City, Japan. The 2nd Asian Art Show. Participant

COLLECTION
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Metropolitan Museum of Manila
Osmani Memorial Hall, Bangladesh
Singapore Art Museum
Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, New York
Various private collections