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Organization / Workplace
Quezon City, Philippines
Occupation
Art Teacher
About
Simkin or "Sim" as he is most fondly called graduated from the Ateneo de Manila High School in 1994, and completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in Diliman in 1998. Scion of Cebuano painter, Gig de Pio, Sim has garnered a number of awards including a two time awardee at the Shell National Student's Art Competition. His fascination with human anatomy, figures and the portrait is evident throughout his college years and life as a painter. He started exhibiting his works at Liongoren Art Gallery in his youth and participated in group shows at Boston Gallery in Cubao, QC and Ad Infinitum in Blumentritt, San Juan. His first
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