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Oscar Santillán
 
b. 1980, Ecuador.
Lives and works in Ecuador.
 
 
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Oscar Santillán is interested in connecting distant points: the sweat of a person with the beat of drums, paper made out of a medicinal tree with Nietzsche’s typewriter, or bringing together the breeze displaced by a running jaguar and a marble container.

Santillán began as a self-taught artist within the environment of Lalimpia, a collective he co-founded with other artists of his generation. After following different studies in Ecuador, a fellowship allowed him to pursue and obtain an MFA in Sculpture at VCU—Virginia Commonwealth University, US. He teaches at  AKV|St.Joost, and he is a guest tutor at Sandberg Institute, both in The Netherlands.
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Recent and upcoming projects include A Heavy Halo, a solo exhibition at RADIUS, Delft (the Netherlands), the HoltSmithson Foundation’s The Island Project: Point of Departure, along with Tacita Dean, Renée Green, Sky Hopinka, Joan Jonas between 2021 and 2026. He has also been commissioned projects by the Yokohama Triennial (Japan), Ballroom Marfa (USA), Bienal de Arte Paiz (Guatemala), Laboratorio de Arte Alameda (Mexico), and the Eli and Edithe Broad Museum (USA). 
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For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.

For his most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here.

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Oscar Santillán, Antimundo 00G, 2022, Oil on canvas, 120 x 85 cm
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Oscar Santillán, Astronaut Cut, 2018, Performance recorded on video. Video (8’34”, 4K, color, audio stereo)
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• Oscar Santillán, Spacecraft (Venus), Ceramic made with the same chemical composition as Venus, 130 x 40 x 55 cm
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Oscar Santillán, After Afterlife, 2019, Bread and Meteorites, Dimensions variable
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Oscar Santillán, BURNT ENCYCLOPÆDIA, 12 tablets made of fired clay, 26 x 17 x 3cm each. Installation view at MUAC, Mexico, 2016-2017
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Oscar Santillán, Forecast, 2021, Device with colonial plants and apocalyptic movies, 118 x 76 x 81 cm
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Oscar Santillán, Chewing Gum Codex, installation view at the Yokohama Triennial 2020, curated by Raqs Media Collective
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Oscar Santillán, La noche, 2018, The moonlight’s weight, Lunar stone, customized metal box,

Solo Exhibitions

2023
A Heavy Halo, RADIUS, Delft, The Netherlands (upcoming)
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2021
A Breathing Mountain, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli, Italy
Shadows Travel at The Speed of Light, La Borie, Paris, France
80m2, Livia Benavides gallery, Lima, Peru
Tiziana di Caro gallery. Naples, Italy
 
2019
13.0.0.0.0, PARQUE Galería, Ciudad de México, Mexico
 
2018
Oscurana, Château La Borie, Solignac, France

2017
Mácula, MUAC; Mexico City, Mexico
Una Cierta Edad del Mundo, Galerie Mazzoli, Berlin, Germany
Asterism, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
2016
Zaratán, Witte de With Center for Con-temporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Codex, Metales Pesados. Santiago de Chile, Chile
 
2015
The Messenger, Spazio Calderara, Milan, Italy
To Break A Silence Into Smaller Silences, Copperfield, London, UK
 
2013
On Hesitation Marks, Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
 
2012
Lucerna, Fundación ODEON, Bogota, Colombia
 


Group Exhibitions
2023
KaplanKaplan, Copperfield, London, UK
Material Art Fair, Llano Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
 
2021
Flash Point, Ponce+Robles, Madrid, Spain
 
2020
Burning Glass, Reading Stone ,Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
La Metafora Dell'Arciere ,Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Naples, Italy
(This) Precious Stone Set in the Silver Sea, Copperfield, London, UK
 
2019
Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space, Socrates Sculpture Park ,Long Island City, New York, USA
Power Play, Korean Cultural Center UK, London, UK
Power Play, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
 
2018
Stage of Being, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
The Ground Beneath Your Feet, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Delfina in SongEun: Power play, Delfina Foundation, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Hyperobjects, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, USA
Downtime, Nest, The Hague, Netherlands
 
2017
Hôtel du Pavot 2, Frac Ile-de-France, Le Chateau, Bussy-saint-martin, France
A Universal History of Infamy, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Park La Brea, California, USA
We have the weights, we have the measures, Copperfield, London, UK
The Nude and The Sap, Witte de With Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst (Center for Contemporary Art), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hacia donde Olmedo miraba, Ponce+Robles, Madrid, Spain
 
2016
Miseratione non mercede, Copperfield, London, UK
 
2015
Adam, Eve & the Devil, Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands
 
 

Collections
Jumex, Mexico City
LACMA, Los Angeles, Califoria, USA
CIFO, Miami, Florida, USA
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Adrastus, Spain/Mexico
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Otazu, Pamplona, Spain
Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Private collections include Alain Servais, Brussels, Belgium
Silvia Fiorucci, Monaco
Carlos Marsano, Peru
Philara Collection, Germany
Bieke and Tanguy van Quickenborne, Belgium
 

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Institutional Exhibitions
Yokohama Triennale, Japan
Delfina Foundation, London, UK
NRW FORUM, Düsseldorf, Germany
SongEun Art Space, SeoulLACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
Zadkine Museum, Paris, France
FRAC Île-de-france, Paris, France
IMMA—Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Rochechouart Musée d’art contemporain, Rochech-ouart, France
Album Arte, Rome, Italy
STUK, Leuven, Belgium
Trienal Poligráfica, San Juan, Peurto Rico
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
National Dutch Dance Festival, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Oud-Rekem Castle, Rekem, Belgium
CAC, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
 


Awards
2021-2026
Holt/Smithson Foundation’s The Island Project: Point of Departure
 


Residencies
Jan van Eyck, Netherlands
Delfina Foundation, UK
Fondazione Ratti, Italy
Skowhegan, USA
Seven Below, USA
Leiden Astronomical Observatory, Netherlands