Julie Lluch Dalena

Place: Manila

Born: 1950

Biography:

Julie Lluch is a Filipino sculptor, born in Manila, Philippines in 1950. She holds a degree in philosophy from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila and is a self-taught sculptor. Lluch became seriously involved in art in 1976 and had her first exhibition in 1977. Her works have been exhibited in the Philippines and abroad, including at the 3rd Asian Art Show at the Asian Art Museum in Fukuoka, Japan in 1989, the First Asia-Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery in 1993, and the exhibition on Asian modernism organized by the Japan Foundation and presented in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines in 1995. The Cultural Center of the Philippines dedicated a retrospective to her work in 2008. Lluch is known for her large-scale terracotta sculptures, as well as her life-size portraits and groups that present satirical commentaries on the relationship between the sexes, which became more openly feminist in the 1980s. She has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Lluch is also a writer, actress, and filmmaker, and is the founder of the feminist group Kalayaan (Freedom) and co-founder of the Kasibulan Women Artists Collective.