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Tiago Santos (1996) is a painter based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.



Education
2021-2023    Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Fine Art, Piet Zwart Institute (WDKA), Rotterdam, NL
2015-2019    Bachelor in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon, PT


Solo Exhibitions
2020    ‘A natureza do gesto’, Módulo-Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, PT
2020    ‘Entre’, Fine Arts Gallery - FBAUL, Lisbon, PT


Group Exhibitions
2024    (upcoming) ‘Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2024’, Royal Palace Amsterdam, NL
2024    ‘Buning Brongers Prijzen: De Prijswinnaars 2024’, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2024    ‘Exposição Solidária 2024 Associação Quinta Essência’, SNBA, Lisbon, PT
2024    ‘Sluijters Prijs’, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, NL
2023    ‘Four Meter High Ceilings’ (MFA PZI Graduate Exhibition), Piet Zwart Institute (KH45), Rotterdam, NL
2023    ‘Partial View’ (MFA PZI Graduate Exhibition), Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
2023    ‘ARTJAM festival’, Poing-Club, Rotterdam, NL
2023    ‘JustLX’ (FBAUL booth), Lisbon Congress Centre, PT
2023    ‘Aristides de Sousa Mendes - Razões de Humanidade’, Espaço Artes - IPL, Lisbon, PT
2022    ‘Wind-Up Teeth’, Piet Zwart Institute (KH45), Rotterdam, NL
2022    ‘I Must Be Living Twice’ in ‘Personal Structures’, Palazzo Mora/European Cultural Centre, Venice, IT
2021    ‘Aristides de Sousa Mendes - Razões de Humanidade’, SGPCM, Lisbon, PT
2021    ‘Painting Graduates’, SNBA, Lisbon, PT
2021    ‘Coletiva de Verão’, Módulo-Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, PT
2020    ‘Grão - residência artística e de investigação’, Former Captaincy of Aveiro’s Port, PT
2020    ‘Traça’, Útero, Lisbon, PT
2020    ‘É pelo olhar que muda o homem e o mundo’, Módulo-Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, PT
2019    ‘Drawing Room’ (Módulo booth), SNBA, Lisbon, PT
2019    ‘Prémio CAT’, Casa das Artes de Tavira, PT 
2019    ‘Speculum cum macula’, Módulo-Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, PT
2019    ‘SOMA’, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon, PT
2019    ‘5th Espinho’s International Bienal of Art’, Municipal Museum of Espinho, PT
2019    ‘Elogio da Matéria’, SNBA, Lisbon, PT
2018    ‘Prize Paula Rego 3rd edition’, Paula Rego House of Stories, Cascais, PT
2018    ‘Singular Pace’, Zet Gallery, Braga, PT
2018    ‘Da Matéria ao Traço’, Gallery Arte Graça, Lisbon, PT
2017    ‘Pequenos Formatos’, Gallery Monumental, Lisbon, PT
2017    ‘180 Anos Belas-Artes’, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon, PT


Residencies
2019    ‘Grão - residência artística e de investigação’, Quinta das Relvas, Branca (Aveiro), PT
2016    ‘Resvés Alte II’, Alte (Loulé), PT


Awards / grants
2024    Nomination for ‘Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2024’
2024    Winner of ‘Buning Brongers Prijs’
2023    Nomination for ‘Sluijters Prijs’
2021    ‘Gulbenkian Scholarships for Studying the Arts Abroad’, FCG
2019    Honorable Mention at ‘5th Espinho’s International Bienal of Art’
2019    Nomination for ‘Prémio CAT’


Articles / reviews/ books (mentioned in)
Dijksterhuis, E. (2024) ‘Expositie Buning Bronger Prijzen 2024 toont figuratief, verhalend werk van kunstenaars met biculturele achtergrond. Het Parool, 7 October.
Vormeer, J. J. (2024) ‘De intimiteit van het alledaagse - in geseprek met Tiago Santos’. Mister Motley magazine, 29 August.
European Cultural Centre (2022) ‘Personal Structures: Reflections’. Venice: European Cultural Centre.
SGPCM/ FBAUL (2022) ‘Aristides de Sousa Mendes: Razões de Humanidade’. Lisbon: SGPCM/ FBAUL.
Porfírio, J. L. (2020) Review of ‘A natureza do gesto’, by Tiago Santos. Expresso magazine #2502, 10 October.
Sabino, I. (2019) Exhibition text for ‘Entre’, by Tiago Santos. Lisbon: FBAUL.
Salteiro, I.; Queiroz, J. P. (org.) (2019) ‘Manuel António Pina: dos olhos e das matérias’. Lisbon: FBAUL/CIEBA.


Other projects
2022    Performer of ‘This art here is about other people's art, via the detour of 'work'. Or, the unpaid break dialogues’, written by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, at Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
2020    Co-curator of ‘Aveiro Jovem Criador’, Museum of Aveiro, PT
2019    Co-creator and producer of festival ‘SOMA’, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon, PT


Collections
Coleção Norlinda e José Lima
Various private collections





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