College of Arts and Letters
University of the Philippines Diliman
Kolehiyo ng Arte at Literatura
Helen Y. Rivera, Ph.D.
Professor
History of the Arts of East Asia, Asian Aesthetics, Theories of Art
Helen Yu-Rivera holds a Ph.D. in Philippine Studies and is Professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She has published two books - Patterns of Continuity and Change : Imaging the Japanese in Philippine Editorial Cartoons and A Satire of Two Nations as well as several articles and essays on contemporary art in both local and international journals. She has also read several papers in local and international conferences. She is the recipient of the 2009 UP Gawad Chanselor sa Natatanging Guro, the 2010 UP Centennial Professorial Chair and the UP Arts Productivity Award. She served as curator of the UP Vargas Museum from 2007-2008 and as Deputy Director for Marketing at the UP Press from 2008-2011. She is currently the principal area editor of the digital edition of the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, Visual Arts volume.
Selected Publications:
Books:
A Satire of Two Nations: Exploring Representations of the Japanese in Philippine Editorial Cartoons. University of the Philippines Press, 2009.
Patterns of Continuity and Change: Imaging the Japanese in Philippine Editorial Cartoons (1930-1941;1946-1956). Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2005.
Articles:
“Alice Guillermo: The Image, the Mileau, and the Critic.” Gawad CCP Folio, 2021.
“Philippine Visual Arts During the Second Republic/ Japanese Occupation (1942-1945),” Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, 2nd ed.,Vol 5, Cultural Center of the Philippines in cooperation with the Office of the Chancellor, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2017, pp.74-78.
Philippine Visual Arts During the Third republic ( 1946-72), Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, 2nd ed.Vol 5, Cultural Center of the Philippines in cooperation with the Office of the Chancellor, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2017, pp. 80-95.
Co -author, “Philippine Visual arts During the Fifth republic ( 1986 onward), Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, 2nd ed.Vol 5, Cultural Center of the Philippines in cooperation with the Office of the Chancellor, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2017, pp.116-136.
Co-author, “Book Design.” Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, 2nd ed.Vol 5, Cultural Center of the Philippines in cooperation with the Office of the Chancellor, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2017,pp. 152-157.
Co-author, “Komiks and Editorial Cartoon.” Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, 2nd ed.Vol 5, Cultural Center of the Philippines in cooperation with the Office of the Chancellor, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2017, pp. 194-199
“Drawing the line between Racism and Political Correctness: Filipino Editorial Cartoonists Reconsider the Japanese,” In International Journal of Comic Art, 10:1, Spring 2008,pp. 174-199.
“Representations of Filipino Comfort Women and Migrant Workers in Japan in Philippine Editorial Cartoons,” The Association forResearch on the Impact of War and Military Bases on Women’s Human Rights, 10th issue, 2011.
Selected Projects:
Curator, “Pasundayag. An exhibition of the works of Anastacio Caedo and photographs of Rizal for the Sesquicentennial conference on Rizal,” 22 – 30 June 2011, GT-Toyota Hall of Wisdom, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
Curator, “Dramaturgical Revelations of Everyday Life,” Kawilihan Gallery, UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum, 26 February – 1 June 2008.
Co-organizer-USC-Sophia-UPD project 2008
A website serving undergraduate students at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA), Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), and the University of Philippines Diliman (Quezon City, Philippines). The USC students are enrolled in Professor Lon Kurashige's IR/HIST 376 - "US-Japan Encounters: War, Trade, and Culture." The Sophia students are enrolled in Professor Mariko Iijima's course "Japanese migration in the Asia-Pacific Region." The UP students are enrolled in Professor Helen Yu- Rivera's "Japanese Painting and Graphic Arts." It serves as the forum through which the three sets of students communicate with each other in discussing issues regarding the perception of the Japanese throughout the Pacific region.
Curator, Musubitsuki: Japanese Images/Thematics in Philippine Art, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Co-presenters: Embassy of Japan and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), 19 July – 5 October 2007.