Miguel Santos

Born in Lisbon, Portugal. Lives and works somewhere out there.

EDUCATION:

· PhD candidate (practice -based) 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.
· Advanced course, Maumaus - Visual Arts School, Lisbon, Portugal.

GRANTS:

· Doctoral grant by Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

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.

2006
· YoU#3, B307 - Project Room, Sheffield, UK.

2005
· YoU#1, C105 - Project Room, 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:

2010

· 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 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 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;
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.

· Betty Boop (video direction in collaboration with Carlota Lagido), Festival Temps d’image, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.

2003
· Betty Boop (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 :

· 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, Love Forbids Us To Love, Lisbon: Gallery Pente 10, 2008. (ISBN: 978-989-95785-1-7)

· 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. (ISBN: 978-3-211-78890-5)

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
· Artist-in-residence at Longyearbyen, Norway. 1 - 13 March 2009.
· Artist-in-residence at the California Arts Institute (working with Norman Klein). Los Angeles, USA. September - December 2009.

© Miguel Santos, 2008