b. 1979, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Lives and works in Munich, Germany
EDUCATION
2007 - 2010
Apprenticeship with Aboriginal Artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Vancouver, British Columbia
2007
Emily Carr Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting), Vancouver, British Columbia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
ATC Gallery, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
2023
Orange County Museum of Art(OCMA), Costa Mesa, USA
Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Nir Altman, Munich, Germany
2021
Seeing angels, Galleria Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy
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, USA (curated by Claire Gilman)
an erratum, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA
2018
By Sea, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA
Minimized Histories II, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates)
2017
Through the People We Are Looking at Ourselves, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada (with Tau Lewis)
Curtis Santiago: Constructing Return, University of Saskatchewan College Art Galleries, Saskatoon, Canada (curated by Magdalyn Asimakis)
Exceeding Return, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg, South Africa
Curtis Santiago, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland (curated by Nicolas Etchenagucia)
2016
Drawings and Miniatures, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA
Market Value, Lord Ludd, Philadelphia, USA
iAPM Exhibition, Shanghai, China (curated by Imagine Lab)
Spring Break Art Fair, New York, United States (curated by Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori)
2015
The History of Touches, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Talwst Outside, Convenience Gallery, Toronto, Canada (curated by Magdalyn Asimakis)
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
2009
Troubadour, The Drake General Store, Toronto, Canada
2008
Paintings by Curtis Santiago, Grace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
When We Become Us², Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
2023
White Holes: The Mysteries and Modern Perceptions of Oracle Bone Script, 798 CUBE, Beijing, China
2022
Night Painting, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
14th Annual Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
Smaller Worlds. Diorama in Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum Budapest, curated by Zsuzska Petró, Budapest, Hungary
Spring Antidote, Blanc Art Space, Beijing, China (curated by Capsule Shanghai)
2021
Everyday Secrets, Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, curated by Cheryl Sim, Fondation Phi, Montreal, QC; traveled to Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada
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
100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Selections from the Rebecca and Jack Drake Collection, Paul R. Jones Museum, Tuscaloosa, USA
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, curated by Cheryl Sim, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada
2019
occupy and echo (a stage), Reading Room, Melbourne, Australia (curated by Tom Polo)
Toronto Biennial of Art, curated by Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien, Toronto, Canada
Lararium, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, United States
A Seed’s a Star, curated by Constance Tenvik, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Vernacular Interior, Hales New York, New York, USA
Present Passing: South by Southeast, Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China (curated by Patrick D. Flores and Natasha Becker)
2018
Ten Years, Rachel Uffner 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, curated by Marie Deparis and Mounir Fatmi for the French Institute of Saint-Louis in Senegal, Bienniale deDakar 2018
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, NY, 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, 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, USA
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)
ART FAIRS SOLO PROJECTS
2023
Play a Mas, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (curated by Megan Connolly, presented by Capsule Shanghai)
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2021
Likkle Things, The New York Studio School, New York, USA
RESIDENCIES
2023
Fountainhead Arts, Miami, USA
Banff Centre for Art and Creativity and Art - Educator
2022
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN – AIR/Professor
Mosaic Residency, Ravenna, Italy
2021
Black Rock, Kehinde Wiley Residency Program, Senegal
2019
Palazzo Monti Residencia, Brescia, Italy
2018
HANGAR Artistic Research Center, Lisbon, Portugal
Long Road Projects, Jacksonville, USA
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 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
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
ALBUMS
2012
Alien Tentacle Sex
2009
Have Mercy (Mixtape)
2006
TKO
2003
Portrait of an Artist
