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DANNY C. SILLADA is a painter, poet, musician, critic, philosopher and performance artist from Philippines. As a multimedia artist, he has already received numerous citations and awards and to date, has already launched 12 one-man shows as a surrealist painter.
Author and art historian Manny Duldulao hailed Sillada as the foremost Filipino colorist in the country (Philippines). His works, according to the University of the Philippines professor and art critic Reuben Ramas Canete, 'are culled from manifold, eclectic sources, as diverse as his biographical experiences, and the polyglotality of the embedded culture of the Mindanaoan. Sillada's works evoke a general air of hyperspatiality studded with the more everyday visualizations of terrestrial environments, reminiscent of the surreal hyperspaces of Yves Tanguy, E.M. Escher, Rene Magritte and Paul Delvaux.
As a multitalented artist, Sillada, as described in the research paper submitted to the University of Asia and the Pacific, he is the embodiment of a Filipino who defies the existing trend. His multi-faceted attribute in the humanities, as a Filipino Renaissance man, is identical with those of well-rounded historical figures during the Renaissance period in Europe.
“He is a visual artist recognized in the Philippine art scene for his paintings and installation artworks, a literary writer who is into prose and poetry, a philosopher, whose writings are akin with existentialism, a first-rate performance artist, and also an art-critic.” (The Life & Works of Danny C. Sillada by Michael Marlowe Uy & Katrina Kalaw, September 2006).
Born 27 April 1963, Cateel, Davao Oriental, Philippines, Danilo “Danny” Castillones Sillada was cited as a gifted child in elementary school. He started painting and earning from his artworks at age seven and was the first to receive the Artist of the Year Award in Maryknoll High School, Cateel, Davao Oriental 1981.
At 17, he entered the seminary and finished his BA Philosophy & Literature in 1986 at the Queen of Apostles College Seminary. He underwent his Bachelor in Sacred Theology and postgraduate studies in Pastoral Theology at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila (1987 to 1991).
In 1992, he left his vocation shortly before his ordination to the priesthood and pursued his MBA at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, Makati City. He worked as head of Marketing & Corporate Relations Office, Fortune Medicare, Inc., Makati City, from 1993 to 1995. In the last quarter of 1995, Sillada, then young executive, resigned from his promising career in the corporate world to become a full-time painter.
In 2003, he received two Pasidungog Centennial Awards in the fields of literary and visual arts in Davao Oriental, Philippines, and currently, one of the 13 featured artists of SAG (an on-line multimedia arts based in the US) along with international artists such as musicians, literary writers and visual artists.
Sillada is currently working on his forthcoming art exhibit and projects on ethnic music album and books on philosophical essays, collection of prose and journal and a novel.
