Neil Doloricon, 63

Neil Doloricon, 63

By IBON Foundation

IBON Foundation is greatly saddened by the passing of Prof. Neil Doloricon, long-time member of our Board of Trustees and life-long artist for radical reforms in the Philippines and society. When Neil joined the Board in 2006 his immense body of art included piercing works on social and economic issues. He was a member of the Audit Committee since 2016 and became Treasurer in 2019. We are immensely grateful for how he enriched IBON with how he saw and interpreted the world.

Neil was born in Surigao del Sur on December 1, 1957, just months after the tyrannical Anti-Subversion Act was signed into law and unleashed a wave of political repression on the country. Decades later in 2020, as then chairperson of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), he was among many prominent petitioners questioning the constitutionality of the likewise tyrannical Anti-Terrorism Law at the Supreme Court. He remained CAP’s chairperson emeritus since the end of his term in May this year.