Portual/ Inglaterra
Jorge Santos (Silves, 1974 - Lisbon, 2022) lived and worked in Lisbon. He graduated in Fine Arts from ESAD, Caldas da Rainha. He received artistic development grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to Casa Velasquez in Madrid and Spike Island in Bristol, and a grant from La Petite Escalère in France. A multidisciplinary artist, he has worked in the fields of painting, sculpture, video, photography and printmaking. He has shown his work in various countries including the UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Brazil. He is represented in several public and private collections, such as MAAT, Fundação PLMJ, Fundação Carmona e Costa, and La Petite Escalère.
Selected solo exhibitions: 2020, A ilusória verdade, desenhos, les amants, Galeria Quattro, Leiria; 2019, Jorge Santos, retrospective exhibition of video and painting, Sede Abreu Advogados, Lisbon; 2018, Pinturas de Outono , Folhas de Outono #pintura, Pavilhão do Consulado Português, Seville. Selected goup exhibitions: 2020, A cultural interpretation of stone, Fragments of love songs, drawing, Livraria Sá da Costa, Lisbon; 2019, Além deste solitário Carrossel, drawing, Fragments of love songs, Galeria 111, Lisbon; 2016, View point #3, site-specific installation , la microscopie du banc, Micro Onde centre d'art, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France.