Career
He is also fictionist, a playwright and editors Hernando Ruiz Ocampo was a leading radical modernist artist in the Philippines. H. R. Ocampo was credited for inventing a new mode of abstraction that exemplifies Philippine flora and fauna, and portrays sunshine, stars and rain.
His art is described to be "abstract compositions of biological forms that seemed to oscillate, quiver, inflame and multiply" like mutations.
Ocampo was born in Santa Cruz, Manila, but later transferred to Maypajo, Caloocan. He originally studied law, commerce and creative writing, and worked as a writer before he taught himself the visual arts
During his career as a writer, he was one of the organizers of Veronicans, a young group of progressive and prolific writers. He worked in various periodicals such as Taliba newspaper and Manila Sunday Chronicle magazine.
He also worked as a scriptwriter and director for television, and produced and directed for the Filipino Players Guild.
Famous for his work "We or They"
Ocampo died at the age of 67 in Caloocan. He was posthumously declared as a National Artist for the Visual Arts in 1991.
