Aaron Bautista

Aaron Bautista is a painter and art teacher born and living in Angono, Rizal. He was the recipient of the Natatanging Mamamayan award from the Municipality of Angono for his excellence in art in 2012.

He has held 16 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in various galleries in Angono, Manila, and abroad. Aaron was a resident artist of the Neo Angono Artists Collective with the Taring Padi Art Exchange program in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2012. He is also a participant in the Art Dialogo Art Exchange project, which exhibited in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2016. As a member of the Angono Ateliers Association Phil., he was part of Art Diversity, a collaborative culture and art exchange with Indian artists, which exhibited at Stainless Gallery in New Delhi, India, in April 2024.

Aaron was a finalist in the 1994-1995 Shell National Student Competition and a top 10 finalist in the 1995 Metrobank Painting Competition. He studied Fine Arts majoring in Studio Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman from 1994 to 1996. Aaron started his career in 1992 as a figurative artist and then shifted to abstractions in 2004.

His Espectro series in 2016, featuring geometric patterns and curvilinear shapes, minimalist, saturated, and colorful abstract conceptual works, was inspired by American artists Frank Stella, Sol Lewitt, and Alex Couwenberg. Meanwhile, his Rural Abstraction series, mixed media abstract works, was inspired by Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and Gerhard Richter.

In 2022 and 2023, he painted geometric figures and abstract landscapes as a homage to National Artists Arturo Luz and Ang Kiukok. While he concentrates on abstract patterns, geometry, and repetition, he remains grounded in his roots—the heart and soul of Angono, where he found his faith, life, and love.

Richard Gappi / Aaron Bautista