Roberto Chabet

Roberto Chabet (Philippines, 1937-2013) made a major contribution to the development of contemporary art in the Philippines from the 1960s onwards in a wide variety of roles, including artist, curator, founding museum director of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, leader of the artist-run space "Shop6," and university professor. He continues to have an influence even after his death in 2013 with the establishment of an online archive at the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong and the staging of a tribute exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2014. As a professor at the University of the Philippines Fine Arts program, Chabet’s ideas on contemporary art have significantly impacted the younger generations of artists under his tutelage but his own career as a practicing artist was not given enough critical and scholarly attention while he was alive.