MANUEL D. BALDEMOR is a multi-talented Filipino artist. He is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, writer and book illustrator. He was born in 1947 at Paete, Laguna, Philippines, a place renowned for woodcarvers.
He has contributed more than 20 designs for reproduction on UNICEF’s Christmas greeting cards for 18 straight years. His global accomplishments extend even beyond this institution.
So far, Baldemor has held numerous one-man exhibits in museums and galleries not only in the Philippines but in cities around the world including Jakarta, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Osaka, Tokyo, Cairo, Tehran, Tel-Aviv, Ankara, Cascais, Madrid, Santiago, Mainz, Munich, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Prague, Bratislava, Paris, Vienna, Warsaw, Budapest, Moscow, Bern, Basel, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Uppsala, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Bergen, Oslo, Vilnius, Tallinn, Riga, London, Edinburgh, and New York.
He has received 24 various local and international awards and grants and has been chosen as artist-in-residence in Singapore, Japan, Israel, Chile, Portugal, Estonia, and Switzerland.