Discipline: Visual Art – mixed media

Jonathan Santos

Discipline: Visual Art – mixed media
Region: South Paris, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000
More: www.jonathansantos.net
Jonathan Santos is an interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on the subject of geography. His projects explore the physical landscape, the political environment, and cultural narratives of space. He is particularly interested in the productive lacunae and the hidden parts in the narratives and is drawn to speculative and evidentiary forms of storytelling. Santos’ projects have received support from the LEF Foundation’s Public Art, Architecture, and Design Grant, Traveling Fellowship from SMFA, and Kelner Faculty Fellowship from MassArt. He has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture on a William and Marguerite Zorach Foundation fellowship and is a MacDowell Fellow. He has shown work at artSpace, New Haven, CT; Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Triple Candie, Harlem, NY; the Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA; and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME. He received his M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and is an associate professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He is currently based in Los Angeles.

Studios

Heinz

Jonathan Santos worked in the Heinz studio.

The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…

Learn more