Rodel Tapaya
Rodel Tapaya is a Filipino painter.Biography
Rodel Tapaya was born in 1980, in Montalban, Rizal, Philippines. He graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. In 2011, he won the Signature Art Prize given by the Asia-Pacific Breweries Foundation and the Singapore Art Museum.Work
Tapaya's works recurrently depict narratives embedded in Filipino cultural history. His current works are marked by labyrinthine patterns and recurring characters that transmit scenes and figures from folk stories in his pictorial world. He studied Painting and Drawing at the Parsons School of Design and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland.
