Manuel Baldemor

He is best known for his paintings on various media that depict scenes in simplified geometric forms with a folk art character.

He won his third gold prize for the annual Art Association of the Philippines competition for his fine prints in the year 1983.

He experimented and tries other media such as, watercolour, acrylic, tempera, oil in canvas, woodcut, ceramics, glass, grass paper and fine prints.

Rosalinda Orosa, an art connoisseur and columnist, called him "The Chronicle of the Motherland" for depicting the beauty of all the places of the Philippines.

He garnered travel grants as artist –in-residence in France, England, Switzerland, Russia, Spain and Portugal in Europe; United States, Mexico and Chile in the Americas; Iran, Israel, Egypt, South Korea, India, Malaysia and China in Asia.

In 1998, President Fidel V. Ramos became his honorable guest for the inauguration of his mural "Pasasalamat" that is shown in the hall of United Nations Center in Vienna, Austria.

He won his fourth gold prize for sculptor for the Annual Art Association of the Philippines Competition sculpture category in the year 1982.

On October 1–14, 1999, he exhibited his 100th show entitled "A Distinctive Milestone" as a painter and sculptor at the Artists’ Corner in SM Megamall.

His works have been chosen and reproduced by UNICEF as a design for their greeting cards for the past 30 years, that generated for at least P35 million sales for the company.

[3] Artist-in-residence, Miskenot Shaannmin, Jerusalem, Israel USIS, Voluntary Visitors Program, USA Leutuvos TSR Kuturas Ministerija, Vilnius, Lithuania Ministry of Arts and Culture, Paris, France Grand Prize Award, Art Association of the Philippines "Symphony of Colors" Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, Spain[6] "Philippine Skyland" Salon des Délegués., UNESCO Miollis, Paris, France[7] "Images of My Homeland and Switzerland" Switzerland[9] "Windows" Atrium, Singapore "Chromatext Reloaded" CCP Main Gallery "The Wonders of China" Galerie Y "From the Heart of India" Art Center, SM MegaMall "Dubrovnik Croatia" Galerie Y, SM MegaMall, Mandaluyong "Czech National Day" Czech Embassy, Manila "Songs of the Revolution" Ayala Museum, Makati City "Prague, The Heart of Europe" Ayala Museum, Makati City "Mula sa Sinisintang Lupa" GSIS Museo ng Sining, GSIS Bldg, Financial Center, Pasay "Philippines Nature's Wonder" Hotel Bayerischen Hof, Munich, Germany "Images of my Native Land" Novomestska Radnice, Prague, Czech Republic "Hymn to my Homeland" Kunst Im Sonnenhof, Bern, Switzerland "Transition" The Crucible Gallery, SM MegaMall, Mandaluyong "Quelque Part En France" La Galerie, Alliance Francaise de Manille "Global Village" The Art Center, SM MegaMall, Mandaluyong "Hymn to the Earth" Luz Gallery, Makati City "Discovery" The Country of Tagaytay Highlands, Tagaytay City "Festival of my Hometown" Philippine International Convention Center "Pasko sa Aming Bayan" EDSA Plaza Hotel, Mandaluyong "Graces from the Land" Gen. Luna Gallery, Davao City "Masskara", Bacolod Convention Plaza Hotel, Bacolod City "Sining Bayan" Art Center, SM MegaMall, Mandaluyong "CEBU, The Queen City of the South" SM City, Cebu "Flowers from the Alps" Galerie Y, SM MegaMall, Mandaluyong "A Piece of Switzerland" Ayala Museum, Makati City "Ein Stuck Schwiz" International Austausch Ateliers Region, Basel, Switzerland "Zona Verde" Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City "Philippine Skyworld" Phoenix Gallery, Baguio City "Cogon at Kahoy" Woodcut Prints Exhibition, Ayala Museum, Makati City "Scent of China" Galerie Y, SM MegaMall, Mandaluyong "The Gentle Carabao" West Gallery, SM MegaMall, Mandaluyong "Festival of Colors" Victoria Plaza, Davao City "Mirror" Lopez Museum, Pasig "Awit at Kulay" Hotel Nikko Manila Garden, Makati City "Season's Best" Westin Philippine Plaza Hotel, Manila "Recuerdos de Mexico" Ayala Museum, Makati City "The Wonders of Egypt II" Egyptian Ambassador's Residence, Makati City "The Wonders of Egypt I" Lopez Museum, Pasig "The Art of Manuel D. Baldemor" National Gallery, Open House, Cairo, Egypt "Ugat ng Sariling Atin" UPLB Gallery, Los Baños, Laguna "Ang Pista sa Nayon" West Gallery, Quezon City "Sa Duyan ng Pagmamahal" Ayala Museum, Makati City "May Isang Bayan sa Dakong Silangan" Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila "Sa Lambong ng Bahag-hari" Artist's Corner Gallery, Hotel Intercontinental Manila, Makati City "Nature's Best" Lopez Museum, Pasig "Sining at Lulturang Kinagisnan" The Luz Gallery, Makati City "Pagdiriwang" Philippine International Convention Center, Manila "As I Came Down from Jerusalem" Ayala Museum, Makati City "Munting Bayan" Philippine Center, New York "Recent Works" Lopez Museum, Pasig "Homage to Botong" Ayala Museum, Makati City "American Experience" Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center, Makati City "The Art of Manuel D. Baldemor" International Art Gallery, Beijing, China "Xian Beyond Expectations" Ayala Museum, Makati City "Manuelis Baldemoras Tapyba Grapika" Lietuvos TSR Dailies Muziejus, Vilnius Lithuania "Folk Vision" The Luz Gallery, Makati City "Pahiyas and the Year of the Carabao" Gallery Genesis, Mandaluyong "Baldemor Country" The Luz Gallery, Makati City "Painting and Sculpture" ELF Arthaus, Parañaque, Metro Manila "Munting Bayan" Ayala Museum, Makati City "Baldemor's Painting Exhibition" Philippine Embassy, Seoul, Korea "Images of the Homeland" Greenhills Art Center, San Juan, Metro Manila "Kay Ganda ng Pilipinas" ABC Galleries, Manila "Muslim Impressions" Hidalgo Gallery, Makati City "Baldemor Paintings" PhilamLife, Iloilo City "Mother and Child" ABC Galleries, Manila "Prints and Drawings" Galeria Burlas, Bacolod City "Recent Paintings" Galeria Burlas, Bacolod City "Paete" Second Laguna Development Bank, Paete, Laguna "Paete: Sketchbook of a Filipino Town" Quad Gallery, Makati "Through the Palette's Eye" U.P.-Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center "SCAPES: Images of Time and Place" DLSU Museum Two-Man Show, Albor-Baldemor, Landesvertretung Thuringen, Bonn, Germany Three-Man Show, Albor-Baldemor-Olmedo, Philippine Embassy, Vienna, Italy Asia World Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan "Sabong" with A. Hidalgo Angeline Baldemor Angelito Baldemor Angelo Baldemor Antero Baldemor Celoine Baldemor Charming Baldemor Felix "Kid" Baldemor Fred Baldemor Leandro Baldemor Mailah Baldemor-Balde Marvin Baldemor Mike Baldemor Nick C. Baldemor Vince Baldemor Walter Baldemor Wilfredo Baldemor Wilson Baldemor Zoerya Emi Baldemor Abuel Vicente Mannsala Casanova, A.