Bienvenido "Bones" Banez, Jr.

Bienvenido "Bones" Banez, Jr. (born June 7, 1962) is a Filipino surrealist painter. He lives in New York City.:47

Banez was born on June 7, 1962 in Davao City, Philippines. He studied at the Learning Center of the Arts (now Ford Academy of the Arts) in that city, where one of his tutors was Victorio C. Edades, Jr.

In 2002 he won the Asian Fellowship Painting Competition of the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA.:47

In 2004, Bañez went to New York where he now lives. In 2010, he was included in Lexikon der phantastischen Künstler.:47

• Dinner with the Devil Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Sept 19, 2014
• Satanic Verses Reading Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Sept, 2014
• The first presentation of The Satanic Verses of Bones Banez Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Jan 25, 2014
• Satan’s Peculiar Grace 14th Annual WAH Salon Art Club Show, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Jan 26-Feb 24, 2013
• The Society For Art Of Imagination Exhibition, Phantasten Museum (Phantastenmuseum Wien), Palais Palffy; Vienna, Austria 2012
• WAH's 16th Anniversary, The Grand Harvest: International Juried Show with Awards, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Oct 27-Dec 9, 2012
• The Visionaries Show at the QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, New York, USA. "Visionaries: The Art Of The Fantastic" July 12, 2012 - to September 20, 2012
• Paradise Lost Collectors Weekend And Antiquarian Books and Art Exhibit, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA, April 14–15, 2012
• WAH Salon Art Club, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
• Fifty Year Fantastic, The Society for Art of Imagination, United Kingdom, London, 2010
• Great Artists Exhibit, Museo Dabawenyo, Davao, Philippines, 2010
• Selected Contemporary Works From The Permanent Collection, PART 2 (2002–Present), Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• Paradise Lost Festival and Exhibit Celebrating Milton's 400th Birthday, 2008
• International Surrealist Show, 2008, 2006
• Brave Destiny Exhibit, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2003
• Around the Coyote Winter Arts Festival. Chicago IL USA, 2003
• Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, 2002, Johnson, Vermont, USA
• Amarin Café, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• Mark Gallery, 1993, Davao City, Philippines
• Victoria Gallery, Victoria Plaza, Davao City, Philippines
• Ford Academy of the Arts, Davao City, Philippines, April 1984

• "Archive - Williamsburg Art & Historical Center". Retrieved 12 December 2014. 
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• "Society for Art of Imagination Exhibition Phantasten Museum Vienna". Fantastic Visions. Retrieved 4 October 2014. 
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• "QCC Art Gallery". Retrieved 4 October 2014. 
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• "Archive - Williamsburg Art & Historical Center". Retrieved 4 October 2014. 
• http://www.surrealismnow.com/bienvenidobonesbanez.html
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• Banez, Bienvenido Bones and Dr Horace Jeffery Hodges (2014) Satanic Verses, Yuko Nii Foundation; 1ST edition (2014). ISBN 1495117340. ISBN 978-1495117343.
• Kaplan, Carter. (2013). Emanations: Third Eye. p. xvi. Introduction includes works by various visual artists. Brookline, Massachusetts: International Authors. ISBN 0615494404.
• Kaplan, Carter, et al. (2012). Emanations: Second Sight. The second anthology showcasing the work of thirty writers from around the world, with illustrations by various artists. Brookline, Massachusetts: International Authors. ISBN 0615699928.
• Visionaries: The Art of the Fantastic, 1st Edition. ISBN 1936658143. 2012: QCC Art Gallery Press.
• Lindall, Terrance (2012) with commentary by John Milton's Paradise Lost, p. 53. ISBN 978-1-4675-6146-4. 2012: Yuko Nii Foundation.
• Surrealism in the Philippines (An interview with multidisciplinary artist and writer Danny Castillones Sillada). 2012: ArtSlant, New York.
• Visionaries: the Art of the Fantastic, a Queens Public Television review.
• Himmelblau, Ulrich Goette (2010). Who's Who in Visual Art 2010-2011: 100 Artists in Painting, Graphic Arts, Digital Arts, Sculpture. 2010: Art Domain Whois Verlag. ISBN 3981347404.
• Rapp, Otto (2010). Visionary Art Yearbook 2010-2011; Canada: Otto Rapp.
• Somozo, Phillip (Jan-Feb 2010). Mindanaoan Artist in Lexicon of Surrealism, p. 48. Manila: Filipinas Mag.
• Somozo, Phillip (2010). Ben Bañez, Art of Surrealism. M Life & living in Mindanao Volume 3 No.1, p. 61.
• Somozo, Phillip (2009). Mindanaoan Artist Visual Irony in Lexicon of Surrealism, Ang Dabawenyo.
• Habarta, Gerard (2009). Lexikon der phantastischen Künstler. Encyclopedia of Fantastic & Surrealistic & Symbolist & Visionary Artists. Germany: Books on Demand. pp. 47–48. ISBN 3837084272.
• Ayala, Tita Lacambra, and Ricardo M. Ungria (2008). Davao Harvest 2. Manila, Philippines: National Commission for Culture and the Arts. ISBN 9718141162.
• Lindall, Terrance. What’s New in the Surreal World, p. 164. March 2006: Art and Antiques Magazine.
• Ramirez, Eileen Legaspi (2006). Crossbred and Emigre: Visual Art in a Flux (Commissioned Article). Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
• Datuin, Flaudette May V. and Alya Honasan (1998) PANANAW: Philippine Journal of Visual Arts (Vol. 2). Manila, Philippines: National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
• Index of Painters and Sculptors Biography and Works Around the World

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• "Der Autor". Retrieved 4 October 2014. 
• "The long wait for "Davao Harvest 2" is over". Retrieved 4 October 2014. 
• http://kellynewcomer.com/pdf/0603Surrealism_Lindall.pdf
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• http://www.settemuse.it/pittori_index/B05.htm