At 15 years old, Nemesio Miranda Jr. won first place at the 1964 Shankar’s International Competition in Painting in New Delhi, India. Since then, he never considered any other vocation than art.

Immersing himself in the creative environment, he worked as an apprentice of reproduction painting under Miguel Galvez of the Mabini Art Circle where he met pioneers like Vicente Manansala, Federico Gonzales and Paco Gorospe. By 1970, he graduated from Fine Arts, Major in Painting, at the University of Santo Tomas.