Manuel Ocampo
Individual
Roles
ArtistBiography
Manuel Ocampo is a contemporary Filipino artist whose works often juxtaposes secular, historical, and religious imagery to evoke socio-political criticism. In a similar vein to both Martin Kippenberger and Philip Guston, Ocampo challenges established iconography. Born in Quezon City, Philippines in 1965, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of 20 and briefly studied art at California State University, Bakersfield. During the early 1990s, Ocampo had a number of solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, culminating in his inclusion in documenta 9 in Kassel. The artist currently lives and works in Manila, Philippines. Today, Ocampo’s works are held in the collections of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, among others.Artnet, 2024