Sonder: MADE 2026 Grand Awardee for Oil and Acrylic on Canvas Vince Macatangay
Vince Macatangay paints sonder, the realization that every stranger you pass is living a life as detailed and complicated as your own
Echoes Beneath My Skin: MADE 2026 Special Citation for Oil and Acrylic on Canvas Awardee Arvin Cantalejo, Jr.
Arvin Cantalejo, Jr. paints intuition and clashing feeling onto canvas, and hides his girlfriend’s dog somewhere inside the chaos
Puno ng Kuwento: MADE 2026 Special Citation for Mixed Media Awardee Richard Montero
Richard Montero builds a family tree out of memory, folk belief, and inherited healing traditions, using found materials as vessels for stories
Mirror of Consequence: Millisecond Before Light: MADE 2026 Special Citation for Sculpture Awardee Raphael David
Raphael David shapes a mushroom cloud out of mirror-polished steel, reflecting the viewer’s face just before the flash
To Weather With You: MADE 2026 Special Citation for Oil and Acrylic on Canvas Awardee Artgiveson Arreglado
Artgiveson Arreglado paints an abstract landscape of waves and buried histories, an evocation of his native Tacloban before and after cataclysm
Hinahalal, Binabanal: MADE 2026 Grand Awardee for Sculpture Aldrin Olaguir
Aldrin Olaguir carves a crocodile into a holy water font, and asks how easily our choices, repeated long enough, come to feel sacred
Taya: MADE 2026 Grand Awardee for Mixed Media Kennette Luague
Kennette Luague builds a wheel of fortune out of wood and metal, staking a figure’s body and labor against the endless turn of luck and hardship
