EDUCATION:
· PhD in Fine Arts, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
· MA Research in Art and Design, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
· BA Hons Fine Arts, London Guildhall University, UK.
· Maumaus - Visual Arts School, Lisbon, Portugal.
GRANTS:
· The Leverhulme Trust (Artist in Residency at Durham University), UK, 2015/16.
· Doctoral fellowship by Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal. (2007 – 2010)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018
· Black Box [The Gift]: On Form and Function, A Montanha Gallery, Lisbon Portugal
2012
· Blue and Grey Paintings, Pente 10 Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
2010
· One for the Mind, Two for the Eye and Seven (plus or minus two) for the world, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield, UK.
2009
· 10 Overdrafts and 10 Lights,, Construct/Deconstruct, site-specific installation curated by the collaborative group Launch, Westgate Centre, Oxford, UK.
2008
· Love Forbids Us To Love, Pente 10 Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
· 25 Mosquitoes Flying Inside My Head But 5 Are Missing, Showroom Cinema. Sheffield, UK.
2007
· 20 mistakes make me wonder..., End Gallery, Sheffield, UK.
2003
· Writing + Somewhere Out There #London, Comm’on Gallery, Porto, Portugal.
1998
· Somewhere Out There, #Lisbon, Gallery Ze dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2020
– Contingere, Galeria Cisterna, Lisbon, Portugal. Curated by Mariana Hartenthal
2018
– Lisbon Guide, Hard Engineering: Proposals for Future Ruins, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal,
2017
– Lisbon Guide, Hard Engineering: Proposals for Future Ruins, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon, Portugal,
2016
– Random Broad Beans (Fava Beans) and TXL Express, New Art Festival, Lisbon, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon, Portugal,
– River(s) Wear, Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) The Annual International Conference 2016, London, UK,
2013
· Clinamen, Experimental BioArts Project: “not invented by nature”, BioQuant building, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
2012
· TXL Express, Tegel: Flights of Fancy, curated by Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Susanne Prinz and Julie Westerman, Babylon Cinema, Berlin, Germany.
2011
· The Walk, Ever Remote curated by Hondartza Fraga, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, UK.
· The Walk, Ever Remote curated by Hondartza Fraga, Site Gallery, hosted by Occursus, Sheffield, UK.
· The Walk, Ever Remote curated by Hondartza Fraga, South Square Gallery, Bradford, UK.
2010
· Untitled [Aiguebelle], Prism 7, Curated by Darren Chouings. Sheffield, UK
· Lisbon and Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing. August night screenings curated by Olivia Reynolds, Lobe: London Berlin Art Kunst Gallery and Vierter Stock project. Berlin, Germany.
· The Spiral Drive. July Saturday Night Screenings curated by Jaspar Joseph-Lester. Lobe: London Berlin Art Kunst Gallery. Berlin, Germany.
· Cala-te, Host Artists Group (HAG) 9.5 project, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK.
2009
· Group Show, Pente 10 gallery. 15 December, 2009- 14 February, 2010. Lisbon, Portugal.
· Arctic Drawings, gallery Pente 10, PARIS PHOTO 09, Paris, France.
· Arctic Drawings, Arte Viajante, curated by Alberto Asprino. Iberoamerican Art Fair (FIA 2009), Caracas, Venezuela.
· Cala-te, Host Artists Group (HAG) 9th project, Vane Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
2008
· Love Forbids Us to Love, Pente 10 Gallery at Lisbon Art Fair, Lisbon, Portugal.
· Not Yet and No Longer, Up & Coming - Exhibition, Aghafar Gallery,
Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK.
· Host 8: Observatory, Art Sheffield 08, Sheffield, UK.
2007
· Floating Souls, In Situ Festival – Building Memory, Centro Cultural La Farinera del Clot, Barcelona, Spain.
· So, the circus is back in Town, Host Artists Group (HAG) 7:
---- Private Venue, Sheffield, UK.
---- Consortium Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
---- Colar...Te...Gallery Centro De Arte Independiente, Santander, Spain.
---- 25th edition of the International Film Festival (Festival International du Premier Film), Annonay, France.
· Je vas que Je vais, (stills), Host Artists Group (HAG) 6, The Sheffield Pavilion Project launched at:
---- Venice biennale, Venice, Italy.
---- Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany.
· 0.1 Je vas que Je vais, Festival Fetiche, eira33, Lisbon, Portugal.
2006
· YoU#4, Three interpretations of art practice in research, End Gallery, Sheffield, UK.
2004
· The Penguin affair (screen version), Salt, 291 Gallery, London, UK.
2002
· The Penguin affair, Degree Show, London Guildhall University, London, UK.
1996
· PH-56-45, Novos Valores, Rio Maior, Portugal.
1995
· Midnight Walk, Collective Maumaus, Centro Cultural Malaposta, Olival Basto, Portugal.
1994
· Not for sale, Jewellery in Photography, Gallery Contacto Directo, Lisbon, Portugal.
· Holiday inn, Spring Salon, Maumaus, Lisbon, Portugal.
1993
· O meu amigo Pedro, Winter Salon, Maumaus, Lisbon, Portugal.
LIVE PERFORMANCES various collaborations:
2008
· Touching All and All Around (set design in collaboration with the Henri Oguike Dance Company):
Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge, UK; Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea, UK; The Lowry, Salford, UK; Jersey Opera House, Jersey, UK; Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe, UK; Peepul Centre, Leicester, UK; Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, UK; Music Hall, Shrewsbury, UK; Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, UK; Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK; Hextable Dance, Kent, UK.
2004
· Self (video direction in collaboration with Carlota Lagido), Casa dos dias da água, Lisbon, Portugal.
· BB (video direction in collaboration with Carlota Lagido), Festival Temps d’image, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.
2003
· BB (in collaboration with Carlota Lagido), Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
BROADCASTS AND FESTIVALS:
· Comunitários: a pesca e os pescadores na foz do Guadiana (in collaboration with João Romão)
---- March 2006 @ Cinemas do Mediterrâneo Festival, Faro, Portugal.
---- February 2006 @ Panorama Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
---- December 2004 / 10 and 15 of January 2006 @ RTP2, Portugal.
PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS :
· River(s) Wear, Photography in Academic Research Conference, University College London, London, UK, September 2016
· Leverhulme artists in residence: panel discussion, Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) The Annual International Conference 2016, London, UK, August/September 2016.
· The River Wear, Network Ecologies Symposium: Exploring Relations Between Environmental Art, Science & Activism, University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, UK, June 4-6 2015.
· On Art & Science, presentation in the context of the Experimental BioArts Project: “Not Invented By Nature”, BioQuant Center, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, 2013.
· Traveling: a methodological practice for altered self-experiences. The Altered Self and Altered Self-Experience, Institute of Philosophy of Language, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 30-31 May 2013.
· Waking up the Stranger Within: One for the Mind, Two for the Eye, and Seven (plus or minus two) for the World. Transmission: HOSPITALITY conference. Sheffield, UK. 1- 3 July 2010
· Love Forbids Us to Love: Paradoxes and Recurrences in the Interface, 4th International Conference on the Arts in Society, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy. 28-31 July 2009
· 20 Mistakes Make Me Wonder... (take #2), 9th Consciousness Reframed Conference, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. July 2008.
· Meaning and the dictatorship of its use, Inventing methodologies2 workshop, Goldsmiths College, University of London. February 2007.
PUBLICATIONS
· Miguel Santos, ‘El Errante’, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 10:2, 2017, pp. 301–305.
· Miguel Santos, ‘Clinamen’, in Ursula Dam and Roland Eils, Not Invented by Nature, Bauhaus Universitat Weimar, 2015, pp. 76-81.
· Miguel Santos, ‘Absent Time’, in Ignaz Cassar, et al, The Object of Photography, Leeds; The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, 2009, pp. 18-21.
· Miguel Santos, ‘20 Mistakes Make Me Wonder… (take #2)’, in Roy Ascott, Gerald Bast and Wolfgang Fiell (Eds.), New Realities: Being Syncretic - Consciousness Reframed: The Planetary Collegium's IXth International Research Conference, New York: SpringerWienNewYork, 2009, pp.261–265. (ISBN: 978-3-211-78890-5)
· Miguel Santos, Love Forbids Us To Love, Lisbon: Gallery Pente 10, 2008. (ISBN: 978-989-95785-1-7)
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
· The Leverhulme Trust artist in residency in the Geography department (collaboration with Prof. John Wainwright), Durham University, UK, 2015
· Field_Notes – HYBRID MATTER, Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Lapland/Finland, 2015.
· Experimental BioArts Project: “not invented by nature”, The Helmholtz Initiative on Synthetic Biology, BioQuant Center for Quantitative Analysis of Molecular and Cellular Biosystems, Heidelberger Life-Science Lab, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. 2013
· California Arts Institute (collaboration with Prof. Norman Klein), Los Angeles, USA. 2009.
· Longyearbyen, Svalbard Islands, Norway. 2009.
