Miguel Santos

Born 1974, Lisbon, Portugal. Lives and works somewhere in Europe.

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:

2008
· Love Forbids Us To Love, Pente 10 Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.

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:

2008
· 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.

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS:

· 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 Male 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. Forthcoming (Feb. 2009). ISBN: 978-3-211-78890-5

© Miguel Santos, 2008