EDUCATION
2017
Certificate Program, New York Studio School, New York, USA
2007/10
Apprenticeship with Aboriginal Artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Vancouver, British Columbia
2007
Emily Carr Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting), Vancouver, British Columbia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), Costa Mesa, USA (upcoming)
2024
A man not in the mood for salsa, Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy
2023
Color is the First Revelation of the World, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, USA
Moving through burning haze, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada
JOYvastated, Nir Altman, Munich, Germany
Play a mas, curated by Capsule Gallery and Megan Connolly, Art Brussels 2023, Belgium
2022
Pay De Devil – Brang! Brang! – Pay De Devil, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2021
Seeing angels, Galleria Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy
Care Package, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum – commissioned edition project, Ridgefield, USA
My Voice Can Be Like Charcoal, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Liming Still, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada
2020
Liming, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Infinity Series, The Rooms, St. Johns, Canada
Can’t I Alter, The Drawing Center, New York, New York, USA
Curtis Talwst Santiago an erratum, Rachel Ufner Gallery, New York, USA
Minimized Histories II, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, USA
Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
2018
By Sea, Rachel Ufner Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2017
Through the People We Are Looking at Ourselves (with Tau Lewis), Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Curtis Santiago: Constructing Return, curated by Magdalyn Asimakis, University of Saskatchewan College Art Galleries, Saskatoon, Canada
Exceeding Return, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
Curtis Santiago, curated by Nicolas Etchenagucia, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2016
Drawings and Miniatures, Rachel Ufner Gallery, New York, USA
Market Value, Lord Ludd, Philadelphia, USA
Spring Break Art Fair, curated by Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori, New York, USA
iAPM Exhibition, curated by Imagine Lab, Shanghai, China
2015
The History of Touches, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Dock Art Fair, Lyon, France
Talwst Outside, curated by Magdelyn Asimakis, Convenience Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Nubians, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Minimized Histories: Marginalization and Unrest in Talwst’s Infinity Series, curated by Stuart Keeler & Kendra Ainsworth, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
2012
Death of Swag, Fuse Gallery, New York, USA
2011
Artrageous 3, Partners in Art and the AGO, Toronto, Canada
2010
Swagged Out, Chuck Akudu Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
The Works Art & Design Festival, Edmonton, Canada
2009
Troubadour, The Drake General Store, Toronto, Canada
2008
Paintings by Curtis Santiago, Grace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
City life, V1 Gallery, Copenhager, Denmark
2023
Poetry of the evident, Galerie Droste, Düsseldorf, Germany
Portrait of an Unlikely Space, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
2022
Smaller Worlds, curated by Zsuzska Petró, group exhibition and commission, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
These Are A Few of My Favorite Things, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, USA
Night Painting, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2021
Everyday Secret, LUCE Gallery, Turin, Italy
THE GATE: Imagine the City, Hamburg, Germany
Aldrich Care Box, The Aldridge Museum, Ridgefield, USA
West Bund Art & Design, presented by Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
FIAC 2021, presented by Rachel Uffner Gallery, Paris, France
2020
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, curated by Cheryl Sim, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada
2019
Toronto Biennial of Art, curated by Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien, Toronto, Canada
Vernacular Interior, Hales New York, New York, United States
Lararium, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, United States
A Seed’s a Star, curated by Constance Tenvik, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2018
Ten Years, Rachel Ufner Gallery, New York, USA
SITE.Lines 2018: Casa Tomada, curated by Ruba Katrib, Candice Hopkins, and José Luis Blondet, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Dime-Store Alchemy, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Multi Layered Surfaces, Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Exile Pavilion, , Bienniale de Dakar 2018, curated by Marie Deparis and Mounir Fatmi for the French Institute of Saint-Louis in Senegal, Dakar, Senegal
Declaration, Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
Whispers That Got Away, curated by Atelier Céladon, SBC Gallery, Montreal, Canada
All About Frank, curated by Arielle De St. Phalle and Taylor Roy, Spring/Break
Art Fair Art Show at OLD SCHOOL, 32 Prince Street, New York, USA
Through That Which Is Seen, curated by Andrea Antonaccio-Wagner, Art Center, Palo Alto, USA
Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks, curated by Darci Hanna, Bakalar & Paine Galleries at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA
Yard Show, curated by Marcus Jahmal, SHRINE, New York, USA
2017
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, curated by Johanna Burton, Natalie Bell, and Sara O’Keefe, New Museum, New York,USA
Regarding the Figure, curated by Eric Booked, Connie H. Choi, Hallie Ringle, and Doris Zhao, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles, curated by Arden Sherman, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA
2016
Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles, curated by Arden Sherman, Hunter College East Gallery, New York, USA
Power to the People, curated by Daisuke Takeya, Earth Plus Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Truth and Power, curated by Jamila Hooker, Arch Enemy Art Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
The Mecca, curated by Ray McAullife, JCT Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Onion by the Ocean, curated by Essye Klempner, Underdonk, Brooklyn, USA
Built, World, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA
2015
A Constellation, curated by Amanda Hunt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
Ghost Van Installation, Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche Toronto, Canada
A to Z, Galerie White Project, Paris, France
Massive 11, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (Juried ) * Acting as Artistic Director & featured artist
2014
Artifacts/Landscapes, curated by Rajni Perera, OCAD Student Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Control, Hunt Club Gallery, Toronto, Canada
To Store and Organize Materials, Gag Bit Vinyl, Brooklyn, New York, USA (Juried)
Massive 10, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (Juried)
2013
Little Salon, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto, Canada (Invitational)
Mama Birding, Communications Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (Invitational)
Mama Birding, Loom Gallery, New York, USA (Invitational)
2011
Good to See You, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada (Invitational)
The Cheaper Show no.10, Vancouver, British Columbia (Juried) Winter Interlude, Angell Gallery Toronto, Canada
2010
Live Painting Performance, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Cheaper Show no.9, Vancouver, British Columbia (Juried)
Vancouver Olympic Art galleries, Vancouver, British Columbia (Curated by Rachel Zottenberg)
2009
The Cheaper Show no.8, Vancouver, British Columbia (Juried)
Cape Town Shake Down, Studio Gallery, Toronto, Canada (Juried)
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2021
Likkle Things, The New York Studio School, New York, USA
RESIDENCIES
2023
Fountainhead, Miami, Florida
Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, Canada
2022
UT School of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee USA
senzatitolo. residency, Ravenna, Italy
2021
Black Rock, Dakar, Senegal
2019
Palazzo Monti Residencia, Brescia, Italy
2018
HANGAR Artistic Research Center, Lisbon, Portugal
2017
Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Museum of Capitalism, Oakland, USA
Gallery MOMO, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
2016
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, USA
2015
Roots And Branches, Art Gallery of Mississauga & Ontario Trillium Foundation, Canada
Education programme with Peel District School Board, Canada
GRANTS/PRIZES
2024
Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Visual Arts
2020
Canada Council for the Arts Digital Grant
2019
Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create Concept to Realization
2018
Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create Grant
2014
Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2011
Canada Council Travel Grants to Professional Artists
2010
Scion Artist Session Grant
2005
FACTOR Independent Sound Recording Grant FACTOR Showcase Grant
2003
CBC Galaxy Rising Star Award
FACTOR Emerging Artist Sound Recording Grant
FACTOR Marketing Grant for Sound Recording
ALBUMS
2012
Alien Tentacle Sex
2009
Have Mercy (Mixtape)
2006
TKO
2003
Portrait of an Artist
PUBLICATIONS
2020
RELATIONS, Diaspora and Painting, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC, Canada
Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can’t I Alter, The Drawing Center, New York, United States
Galleries West, Exhibition of miniature dioramas turns up the Caribbean party heat Canadian Art,
Interviews, Curtis Talwst Santiago on Drawing Online and Building Exhibitions During a Pandemic
2018
In the Making. “Curtis Talwst Santiago.” Season 1, Episode 7. CBC. November 2 (https://watch.cbc.ca/media/in-the-making/season-1/episode-7/38e815a-00f6dca0197)
Jillian Steinhauer, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” The New York Times, July 17
Kathaleen Roberts, “Broken Boundaries,” Albuquerque Journal, July 13
Ayasha Guerin, “Black Passages: Curtis Talwst Santiago interviewed by Ayasha Guerin,” BOMB Magazine, June 12
Claire Selvin, “Here’s the Artist List for the 2018 Edition of SITElines,” ARTNews, May 14
Loney Abrams, “8 Show-Stopping Artworks at Frieze for Under $10,000,” Artspace Magazine, May 4
“The Twenty-Five,” Cultured Magazine, pg. 75, May/June
Andrea K. Scott, “A Secret Exhibit That’s Better Than an Art Fair,” The New Yorker, March 14
2017
Charles Reeve, “Tau Lewis, Curtis Santiago and Daniel Rios Rodriguez,” frieze, September 1
Tyler Akers, “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” GAYLETTER, August
Gabrielle Moser. “Critics’ Pick, Tau Lewis and Curtis Santiago,” Artforum
August Terence Dick, “Tau Lewis & Curtis Santiago at Cooper Cole,” Akimbo, August
2016
Mira Dayal, “Drawing a Line: ‘A Constellation’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Art Criti- cal, April 16
Cristina Vatulescu, “Art and Law Enforcement in a Ring Box: Talwst’s Miniature Aesthetic Revolution”, The Brooklyn Rail, March 4
Jillian Steinhauer, “Spring/Break, a Sprawling Alternative Art Fair that Delivers”, Hyperal-lergic, March 3
Alexandra Fowle, “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 3
2015
Alice Newell-Hanson, “Talwst Recreates Miniature Historical Atrocities in Antique Jewelry Boxes”, Vice i-D, December 3
“Talwst’s tiny boxes are making a big mark on the art world,” CBC Arts, November 4
Katie Lawson, “Talwst: The History of Touches at Angell Gallery,” ARToronto.ca
October Genista, “Artist Talwst Makes Unique Miniature Worlds Inside Antique Ring Boxes,” Beautiful/Decay, May 5
Adam Lehrer, “Canadian-Trinidadian Mixed-Media Artist Talwst Explores Art History in a Fresh Context”, Forbes, April 29
Jef Hamamda, “Ring box Dioramas by Talwst”, booooooom, April 3
Daniel Otis, “The Miniature World of Talwst: Toronto’s lord of the ring boxes,” The Toronto Star (print), March 20
Nastia Voynovskya, “Talwst’s Miniature Dioramas Culture,” Hi-Fructose, March 10
Kathryn Bromwich,“The Imaginative Ring-Box Art of Talwst”,The Guardian, March 7
2012
Aaron Berger, “Swagged Out”, Beautiful Decay
Lauren Festa, “Death of Swag”, ThinkContra
Zoe Pawlak, “I Am Jealous of Talwst”, The Jealous Curator, July 2
Cedar Pasori, “TALWST’s ‘Death of Swag’ Exhibit Opening at NYC’s Fuse Gallery”, Complex, August 14
Saskia Channel, “TALWST”, www.dreamsofconsciousness.com
“Talwst,” The Lab Magazine, Issue 6
2011
Natalie Ast, “7 Artists 7 Senses 7 for all mankind”, Women’s Post, Toronto, Canada
Andrew Wallace, “A Restless Creator Finds Inspiration in Street Art”, Metro, Toronto, Canada
Papillion Institute of Art, “Arte: Curtis Santiago”, artezine.posterous.com
2010
Lexa Naicu, “Curtis Santiago,” Skewed Magazine, Issue 9, March/April “Spot Check,” Red Bull TV Germany
2009
Steve Shon, “In Music: Curtis Santiago”, TCHAD
2008
“Art and Sole,” InStyle, Toronto, Canada
2004
Martin Turenne, “Curtis Santiago”, straight.com, February 26th
2003
Tim Lee, “An Essay on Curtis Santiago”, Cahier D’activite, Issue No.2, Winter
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA