21 Facts About David Medalla

David Cortez Medalla was a Filipino international artist and political activist.

David Medalla's work ranged from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation, and performance art.

David Medalla was the second of five children, including an older half-sister.

The Medalla house was destroyed in the Battle of Manila.

At the beginning of his second year of high school, David Medalla's whereabouts were unknown for three weeks.

David Medalla would attend the school for two days before quitting without telling his parents for several months.

David Medalla brought his poems to magazine and newspaper editors and was published on the front pages of The Campus Journal and The Philippine Collegian.

David Medalla requested that his author image be printed upside down, but the request was rejected.

Guerrero, both of whom were professors at the University of the Philippines, interviewed David Medalla and wrote about him in the Saturday Morning Magazine.

David Medalla attended a philosophy class under John Randall, a modern drama class under Eric Bentley, a literature class under Lionel Trilling, a Greek drama class under Moses Hadas, and a poetry workshop under Leonie Adams.

On returning to Manila in March 1955, David Medalla transformed his family home in Ermita into an art studio and salon that he called La Cave d'Angley.

David Medalla was editor of the Signals news bulletin from 1964 to 1966.

Between 1 January 1995 and 14 February 1995 David Medalla rented a space at 55 Gee Street, London, where he lived and exhibited.

David Medalla exhibited seven new versions of his biokinetic constructions of the sixties.

David Medalla lectured extensively, including at the Sorbonne, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of New York, Silliman University, the University of the Philippines, the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, the New York Public Library, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Canterbury, Warwick, and Southampton in England, the Slade School of Fine Art, and St Martin's.

David Medalla won awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation.

David Medalla is represented by his extensive archives as private collection, another vacant space.

David Medalla considered it a scientific and philosophical challenge, his attempt in achieving the concept of an expanding and continuously changing sculpture.

In 2016, David Medalla presented a new version of the bubble machines in an exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield for the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.

In 2012, David Medalla was given the Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi award from Ateneo de Manila University, which recognizes those who have pursued Filipino identity through any channel of culture.

In 2016, David Medalla was shortlisted for the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture alongside Phyllida Barlow, Steven Claydon, and Helen Marten.