Born in Dumalag, Capiz, Philippines in 1960, he took an interest in visual art at the age of five. Although his parents also recognized his talent, he was sent to study Civil Engineering at the Western Institute of Technology in Iloilo City but later completed a degree in Marine Transportation at the Iloilo Maritime Academy. After graduation, he worked as a geological draftsman for the Azure Mining Corporation and later for several shipping companies in Japan. In 1988, upon moving to Greece, he took up figurative drawing lessons under Lou Efstathiou at the American Hellenic Union in Athens and decided to become a fulltime artist in 1993. In 1998, he transferred to Germany with his family where he was commissioned to design numerous life-size fiberglass sculptures by the German company Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH, many of which were duplicated for souvenir reproduction, and has occasionally pledged his artworks for charitable causes in the Philippines and Africa. After returning to the Philippines in 2005, he eventually relocated to Ireland in 2009 and now resides in Singapore. He currently represents the Philippines in the ongoing United Buddy Bears World Tour Exhibit in aid of UNICEFF spanning five continents and captivating 30 million spectators to date. His paintings and sculptures are in private and public collections throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America.





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Exhibitions:

June 1995                        Philippine Embassy, Paleo Psyhico, Athens, Greece
November 1995               Villa Lupi, Eimsbüttel, Hamburg, Germany
November 1997               Group Exhibit, Panublion Museum, Roxas City, Philippines
December 1997               Group Exhibit, Int’l Bazaar, World Trade Center, Manila, Philippines
May 1998                          Group Exhibit, Heritage Gallery, Shangri-La Plaza, Pasig City, Philippines
November 1998               Department of Foreign Affairs Lobby, Pasay City, Philippines (sponsored by the National Centennial Commission)
April 1999                          Int’l Festival of World Cultures, Rheinaue Park, Bonn, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany (sponsored by the Philippine Embassy Extension Office Bonn)
April 2000                         Philippine Embassy, Avenue Molière, Brussels, Belgium
May 2000                          Group Exhibit, Philippine Embassy, Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany
June 2000                           Deutsche Welle, Cologne, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany
October 2000                    Impression Galerie & Restaurant, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
September 2001                Philippine Honorary Consulate, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
June 2002                           Philippinenzentrum, Institute for East Asian Studies, Hamburg University, Hamburg,  Germany
April 2003                          Kurhaus, Bad Homburg von der Höhe, Hesse, Germany (in partnership with Gawad Kalinga and ANCOP Foundation)
June 2003                    Philippine Consulate General, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
October 2004             Int’l Artists Workshop and Group Exhibit, Atelier d’ Artista, Gambassi Terme, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
May 2005                     Philippine Community Center, Heilig Geist Kirche, Berlin, Germany
March 2006                 Frame of Mind Gallery, Doña Soledad Ave., Parañaque City, Philippines
May 2006                     Group Exhibit, Galerie Astra, LRi Business Plaza, Bel-Air, Makati City, Philippines
October 2006             Museo Iloilo, Bonifacio Drive, Iloilo City, Philippines
February 2007           Group Exhibit, University of the Philippines in the Visayas Gallery, Iloilo City, Philippines
April 2007                    Galleri Grapphito, Robinsons Place Iloilo, Iloilo City, Philippines
June 2007                    Group Exhibit, Galleri Grapphito, Robinsons Place Iloilo, Iloilo City, Philippines
February 2008           Museo Negrense De La Salle, University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City, Philippines
August 2008              Group Exhibit, Galerie Anna, Ramon Magsaysay Center, Roxas Blvd., Manila, Philippines
September 2008       Group Exhibit, Artes Orientes, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Philippines
December 2008         Charitable Auction of Plate Painting for the benefit of Tilipunan Community Service Center in Brgy. Tanza Esperanza, Molo, Iloilo City, Philippines (sponsored by the Zonta Club of Iloilo I)
January 2009             Charitable Group Exhibit for the restoration of Plaza Arevalo at the Camiña Balay nga Bato, La Nueva Villa de Arevalo, Iloilo City, Philippines
February 2009           Group Exhibit, Museo Negrense De La Salle, University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City, Philippines
December 2010         Group Exhibit, Philippine Embassy, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, Ireland
October 2011             Group Exhibit, Art Museum Riga Bourse, Riga, Latvia
October 2011             Group Exhibit, Philippine Embassy and Residence, Stockholm, Sweden

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Commissions:

February 1999            commissioned to paint life-size portrait of German children’s author Erich Kästner in celebration of the writer’s 100th Birth Anniversary (sponsored by the Erich-Kästner-Grundschule in Kessenich, Bonn, Germany)

September 2001        commissioned to represent the Philippines at the 1st United Buddy Bears Exhibit in 2002 (sponsored by the Philippine Nat’l Bank)

May 2003                      commissioned to represent the Philippines at the United Buddy Bears World Tour Exhibit in aid of UNICEF (sponsored by the Philippine Embassy Berlin)

July 2003                       commissioned to paint Buddy Bear for the Mint & Refinery Section of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas in Quezon City, Philippines (sponsored by Gleitsmann Security Inks GmbH)

May 2004                      commissioned to paint two Buddy Bears and one Buddy Bear-Mini for Galeria Kaufhof Shopping Center and Park Inn Hotel, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany (sponsored by Metro Group and Radisson Hotels & Resorts)

October 2004               commissioned to paint Buddy Bear for Metro Group Headquarters-Asset Management Division in Düsseldorf, Germany (sponsored by Galeria Kaufhof-Berlin)

May 2005                       commissioned to paint Buddy Bear-Mini for the 50th Anniversary of
German-Philippine Diplomatic Relations (sponsored by Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH)

June 2005                      commissioned to paint Buddy Bear-Mini for Ina Sissovics in Heilbronn, Germany (sponsored by Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH)

July 2005                        commissioned to paint Buddy Bear-Mini for German logistics company Hamburg Süd GmbH (sponsored by Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH)

October 2008                commissioned to paint mural painting for the Tirol-Jarantilla Residence in Pavia, Iloilo, Philippines

November 2011            commissioned to paint Buddy Bear-Mini for Africa Project (sponsored by Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH)



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United Buddy Bears World Tour Exhibition



























​​​​​L-R: United Buddy Bears Exhibit on World Tour – May 2004 in Victoria Park, Hong Kong; Front & Back Views of Artist’s Entry: The Philippine Eagle Bear

 







June 2002                   Inaugural Exhibit, Pariser Platz (Brandenburg Gate), Berlin, Germany

July 2003                     World Tour Launching Exhibit, Pariser Platz (Brandenburg Gate), Berlin, Germany
January 2004             Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria
May 2004                    Victoria Park, Hong Kong, China
December 2004        Tepebaşı Pera Square, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
April 2005                    Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan
October 2005             Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea
March 2006                Harbour Bridge Waterfront (Opera House), Sydney, Australia
June 2006                    Bebelplatz, Berlin, Germany
September 2006       Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
April 2007  Gezira      Promenade, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt
August 2007              Safra Square, City Hall, Jerusalem, Israel
May 2008                    Castle Square, Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland
July 2008                     Schlossplatz, New Castle, Stuttgart, Germany
October 2008            Moran Hill Youth Park (Kim Il-sung Monument), Pyongyang, North Korea
March 2009                Plaza San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 2009                    Plaza Independencia, Montevideo, Uruguay
November 2009        Hauptbahnhof/Central Station (Indoor), Berlin, Germany
May 2010                    Bayterek Observation Tower Square, Astana, Kazakhstan
September 2010      Senate Square, Helsinki, Finland
April 2011                   Square St. Nedelya, Sofia, Bulgaria
June 2011                   Kurfürstendamm, Berlin, Germany
December 2011        Pavilion KL, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
March 2012                Central Park, Connaught Place, New Delhi, India
June 1012                   Alexandrovsy sad, St. Petersburg, Russia
October 2012            Champ de Mars (Eiffel Tower), Paris, France
(marking the Elysée Treaty’s 50th Anniversary and 25th Year of the Berlin-Paris Sisterhood Pact)

United Buddy Bears – The Minis German & European Tour Exhibition

June 2004                    Neues Kanzlereck, Kurfürstendamm, Berlin, Germany
December 2004         4th Flr., Terminal 2, Frankfurt Int’l Airport, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
August 2005              Krongut Bornstedt UNESCO World Heritage Site, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
January 2006             on the frozen lake of Schlachtensee, Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany
(in cooperation with the Berlin Fire Brigade in aid of UNICEF for earthquake victims in Pakistan)
October 2005             Sony Center European Headquarters, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
July 2007                      Federal State Mission of Hesse, Berlin, Germany
August 2009               Wasserburg am Bodensee, Lake Constance, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany
   (in celebration of the municipality’s 1,225th  Founding Anniversary)
August 2011                Osnabrück Zoo, Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
   (in celebration of the zoo’s 75th Founding Anniversary)
June 2012                     Wilmersdorf District Hall, Berlin, Germany
July 2012                       Polus City Center, Bratislava, Slovakia (in cooperation with the Slovak Paralympic Committee)
December 2012          Borås, Västra Götaland County, Sweden (in cooperation with Swedish Children’s Charity Barens rätt i samhället)

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E-mail Address: pierrepatricio@ymail.com

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