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Jonathan Santos is an educator and interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on the subject of geography, in broad terms. His projects explore the physical landscape, the political environment, and cultural narratives of space. He is particularly interested in the productive lacunae and the hidden parts in the narratives and is drawn to speculative and evidentiary forms of storytelling.

Jonathan’s’ projects have received grants from the LEF Foundation’s Public Art, Architecture, and Design Grant, the Traveling Fellowship from SMFA, the Kelner Fellowship from MassArt, and the William and Marguerite Zorach Foundation Fellowship,. He has attended art residencies at the Vermont Studio Center,  MacDowell Colony, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

He has shown work at Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, NH; artSpace, New Haven, CT; Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA; the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Triple Candie, Harlem, NY; the Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA; and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME.

He received his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and is a Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Related Projects:

Storefront Library [Collaborative], Chinatown, Boston, MA
Site-Specific [Curatorial], ArtSpace16, Medford, MA

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