Andrea Santos
Bio
Andrea Santos (991, Panama) is a Panamanian visual artist whose autodidactic and intuitive practice explores the construction and dissolution of identity through diverse media. Her work creates a visual language that activates and deconstructs realities, addressing themes such as shadow, femininity, sexual energy, and spirituality. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, and Diablo Rosso, among others. Her first solo exhibition was “It’s Time to Leave, but Here Time Doesn’t Exist” (2017). She has taken part in programs such as Voces en Acción, Trampolín, and En una Papa. In 2024, she received an honorable mention in the Roberto Lewis National Visual Arts Competition.
Statement
Andrea Santos’s artistic practice is a sacred space where she plays with the expression of an ever-evolving identity. From a naive and intuitive approach, she creates from the unknown to explore the impermanence of being and its connection to the environment. She draws inspiration from philosophy, stories, ancestral knowledge, iconography, and collective memory to fictionalize the mystical. In doing so, she builds a symbolic map where myth, emotion, and reason merge, giving life to imagined worlds and a decolonized, diverse, ever-shifting, and timeless identity.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
