Biography
Bert Monterona is a Filipino-Canadian visual artist living in Vancouver, Canada. A compleat artist-an educator and cultural worker doing designing, illustrations, painting, murals, sculpture, installations, set and props for stage performances and TV shows. Internationally and nationally acclaimed, he is a recipient of the1995 Western Australia Department of the Arts and Australia Council for the Arts grants, University of Western Australia School of Architecture and Fine Arts and Australian Embassy Philippines Residency Grant,1998 Asian Artists Awards of Vermont Studio Centre and Freeman Foundation,U.S.A.,1996,1997,1998,2000 & 2001 Finalist of the Philip Morris Group of Companies Annual ASEAN Art Awards,1998 GSIS Museum Artist of the Month Awards, Art Association of the Philippines Best Entry Award,2007 Winner of the International Mural Festival and Competition in Manitoba, Canada and won the 2009 Artist in Residence Program and Mural Project of the Leigh Square Community Arts Village, City of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.
As an artist-educator he has organized art workshops in schools and communities, for skills development, art-as- therapy and peace building. He facilitated art workshops and lecture- presentations for art educators, social workers, artists, fine arts students, art enthusiasts, street children and out of school youth in different places and venues like, University of Western Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, University of the Philippines, Vargas Museum, Vermont Studio Centre, Leigh Square Community Arts Village, Children’s Rehabilitation Centre and different Communities.
