Jonathan Santos is a multidisciplinary artist whose work centers on the subject of geography in a broad sense, exploring the physical landscape, the political environment, and the cultural narratives of space. He is particularly interested in the histories and identities that shape the place, its people, and the memory they create. He is drawn to speculative and evidentiary forms of storytelling, using drawing, painting, design, sound, video, sculpture, or public art.
Jonathan is a 2026 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Creative Grant, has been awarded the LEF Foundation’s Public Art, Architecture, and Design Grant, Traveling Fellowship from SMFA, Kelner Fellowship from MassArt, and the William and Marguerite Zorach Foundation Fellowship. Also, I’ve attended art residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited at Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA; 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 holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and currently serves as a full-time Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.