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.

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