Bio:
Jonathan Santos is a Boston-based artist who employs a range of media, including painting, video, sculpture, installation and design, creating site-responsive work that stems from his interest in both human and physical geography. He has been awarded a Public Art, Architecture, and Design Grant from the LEF Foundation and EdCo Research Grant from the Boston Architectural College. He has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center, and has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture with a ful fellowship from the William and Marguerite Zorach Foundation. He holds a MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University. He is an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Selected exhibitions include: Hopeless or Otherwise, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; 'Interruptions: Art as Social Practice', University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. (2008); 'Stencils: Public Space and Social Intervention', New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA.(2007); 'Don't Know Much About History', ArtSPACE, New Haven, CT.
(2006); 'Peekskill Project '06', Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary
Art, Peekskill, NY. (2006); 'Social History of Objects', Triple Candie,
Harlem, NY. (2006); 'Thread Counts Project', G.A.S.P., Brookline, MA.
(2006); Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME. (2006); 'Strategic
Design', G.A.S.P. Brookline, MA. (2005); Aidekman Gallery, Tufts University,
Medford, MA. (2004); artSPACE@16, Malden, MA. (2003); 'Burnt Orange Heresy,
Space101, Brooklyn, NY. (2003); Artists Foundation, Boston, MA. (2003);
Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA. (2003); 'Cyberarts', Gallery Green
Street, Jamaica Plain, MA. (2003); '17th Drawing Show', Mills Gallery,
Boston, MA. (2002); 'Out of Bounds', Cyclorama @ Boston Center for the
Arts (2001); Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA. (2001);'The
Ninth Triennial', Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA. (2000).
Press:
Genocchio, Ben. 'Show Gives Art History New Meaning', The New York Times, December 31, 2006
Birke, Judy. 'Artspace's provocative 'History' goes beyond any textbook', CT Central, Decemer 09, 2006
Kobasa, Stephen Vincent. 'Tragedy to Farce', New Haven Advocate, December 21, 2006
McQuaid, Cate. 'Blast
from the Past' (pdf), Boston
Globe, June 9, 2006
'8 Artists to Watch', Big Red and Shiny, issue #29, 2006
McQuaid, Cate. 'Subversive Design', Boston Globe, February 25, 2005
Yang, Daphne. 'Site-Specific: Global Community', The World Journal, August 25, 2004. Curatorial
Gamber, Matt. 'Site-Specific' @ Artspace@16, Big Red and Shiny, issue #10, 2004. Curatorial
Hopkins, Randi. 'I'll Take You There', Editor's Picks, Boston Phoenix, August 13-19, 2004. Curatorial
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