Arturo Rogerio Luz (born 1926) was a Philippine painter and sculptor. His paintings are marked by meticulous simplicity and restraint, with subdued colors and understated form. Luz himself described them as "semirepresentational, semiabstract."

Arturo Luz was born on Nov. 20, 1926, in Manila, Republic of the Phillipines. He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and the Académie Grade Chaumière in Paris; he received a diploma from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in 1994. He married artist Tessie Ojeda Luz.

Worldwide Recognition

While still in college Luz began exhibiting his works and won his first prize in the annual art competition of the Art Association of the Philippines. Other outstanding awards included the first prize at the First International Art Salon in Saigon, Vietnam, in...