The pioneering Filipino conceptual artist, curator, and teacher Roberto Chabet is known for his groundbreaking experimental work which ranges from paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, and installations that harness the found and the ordinary. 

As the founding Museum Director of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Chabet (1937-2013) initiated the Thirteen Artists Award in 1970 which aimed to support young artists whose body of work expressed “recentness and a turning away from the past.” 

Posthumously awarded the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining in 2015, he had taught at the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman for over thirty years. 

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