Canada, 1979. Lives and works in Munich
Selected works
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EDUCATION
2017 Certificate Program, New York Studio School, New York, United States
2007/10 Apprenticeship with Aboriginal Artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Vancouver, British Columbia
2007 Emily Carr Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting), Vancouver, British Columbia
SOLO AND TWO PERSONS EXHIBITIONS
2022 Pay De Devil – Brang! Brang! – Pay De Devil, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2021 Seeing angels, Galleria Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy ( 8 June – 24 July 2021)
Care Package, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum – commissioned edition project
My Voice Can Be Like Charcoal, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
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, NY, United States
Curtis Talwst Santiago an erratum, Rachel Ufner Gallery, New York, United States
Minimized Histories II, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Eli and Edythe Broad
Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
2018 By Sea, Rachel Ufner Gallery, New York, NY, United States
2017 Through the People We Are Looking at Ourselves, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada (with Tau Lewis)
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, United States
Market Value, Lord Ludd, Philadelphia, United States
Spring Break Art Fair, curated by Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori, New York City, United States
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, United States
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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Group exhibition and commission, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary (curated by Zsuzska Petró)
These Are A Few of My Favorite Things, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, US
Night Painting, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2021 Everyday Secret, LUCE Gallery, Turin, Italy
THE GATE: Imagine the City, Hamburg, Germany
Aldrich Care Box, The Aldridge Museum, Ridgefield, CT
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, United States
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, United States
Multi Layered Surfaces, Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Exile Pavilion, curated by Marie Deparis and Mounir Fatmi for the French Institute of Saint-Louis in Senegal, Bienniale de Dakar 2018
Declaration, Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States
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, NY, USA
Through That Which Is Seen, curated by Andrea Antonaccio-Wagner, Art Center, Palo Alto, United States
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, United States
Yard Show, curated by Marcus Jahmal, SHRINE, New York, United States
2017 Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, curated by Johanna Burton, Natalie Bell, and Sara O’Keefe, New Museum, New York, United States
Regarding the Figure, curated by Eric Booked, Connie H. Choi, Hallie Ringle, and Doris Zhao, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, United States
Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles, curated by Arden Sherman, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, United States
2016 Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles, curated by Arden Sherman, Hunter College East Gallery, New York, United States
Power to the People, curated by Daisuke Takeya, Earth Plus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Truth and Power, curated by Jamila Hooker, Arch Enemy Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Mecca, curated by Ray McAullife, JCT Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Onion by the Ocean, curated by Essye Klempner, Underdonk, Brooklyn, United States
Built, World, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, United States
2015 A Constellation, curated by Amanda Hunt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York,NY
Ghost Van Installation, Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche Toronto
A to Z, Galerie White Project, Paris
Massive 11, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (Juried ) * Acting as Artistic Director & featured artist
2014 Artifacts/Landscapes, curated by Rajni Perera, OCAD Student Gallery, Toronto,Ontario
Control, Hunt Club Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
To Store and Organize Materials, Gag Bit Vinyl, Brooklyn, New York (Juried)
Massive 10, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (Juried)
2013 Little Salon, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario (Invitational)
Mama Birding, Communications Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (Invitational)
Mama Birding, Loom Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (Invitational)
2011 Good to See You, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Ontario (Invitational)
The Cheaper Show no.10, Vancouver, British Columbia (Juried) Winter Interlude, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010 Live Painting Performance, Vancouver Art Gallery
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, Ontario (Juried)
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2021 Likkle Things, The New York Studio School, New York, US
RESIDENCIES
2022 UT School of Art, Knoxville, TN
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, United States
Gallery MOMO, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, United States
2015 Roots And Branches, Art Gallery of Mississauga & Ontario Trillium Foundation
Education programme with Peel District School Board
2014 Roots And Branches, Art Gallery of Mississauga & Ontario Trillium Foundation
Education programme with Peel District School Board
GRANTS AND AWARDS
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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
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Kathaleen Roberts, “Broken Boundaries,” Albuquerque Journal, July 13.
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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, 2016
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
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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
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY