Agnes Arellano studied sculpture at the University of the Philippines Diliman and in 1988 was awarded the prestigious CCP Thirteen Artists Award. She was also the founder of Pinaglabanan Galleries, a seminal force in the development of contemporary Philippine Art. Arellano has participated in international group exhibitions in Berlin, Fukuoka, Havana, Johannesburg, New York, Brisbane and Singapore. In 2006, her work “Haliya”, the pregnant moon goddess, was
magnified into granite four meters long, hand-carved by Korean carvers for the Naru Park beside the Naru River in Korea.