Carina R. Santos

I am an artist, designer, and writer with a penchant for yarn, mountains, and bad T.V.


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︎ Art
︎ Design
︎ Writing (wip)




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Biography
b. 1988, Quezon City, Philippines


Talks & Workshops
Selected Press
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2024
  • Collapsing Distance
  •    Gravity Art Space, PH
  • Meanwhile,
  •     West Gallery, PH

2023
  • A record of horizons
  •     Blanc Gallery, PH

2022
  • If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes
  •     West Gallery, PH

2020
  • The Second Structure of Feeling
  •      West Gallery, PH
  • Latent fictions
  •     MO_Space, PH

2019
  • Here as Elsewhere
  •     West Gallery, PH

2018
  • a pocket that could hold the universe
  •     Finale, PH
  • Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless
  •     West Gallery, PH

2017
  • Orbiting the Last Known Surroundings
  •     West Gallery, PH
  •  Satellites for Minor Planets
  •     Blanc Gallery, PH

2016
  • Sometimes I am restless
  •     West Gallery, PH

2015
  • a little on purpose
  •     West Gallery, PH

2014
  • Where My Body’s Been
  •     Blanc Gallery, PH

2013
  • See More Glass
  •     West Gallery, PH

2012
  • How Still, How Fast
  •     Blanc Gallery, PH

2011
  • Excavations from the End of the World
  •      West Gallery, PH




Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
  • Synchronized Syncopation
  •     MO_Space, PH

2023
           S.E.A. Focus, SG
               with MONO8 Gallery, PH
           Melt
               Hypha Studios, UK
           No City As Dear As 
               Finale with Tin-Aw, PH
           Garden of Good and Evil
               Gravity Art Space, PH
           A Portrait of a Portrait Show
               MO_Space

2022
           The Lost and the Remained
               Curated by An.OtherAsian
               The Koppel Project Hive, London, UK
  • (not within or beyond)
  •     MONO8 Gallery, PH

2020
  • A. Play B. Work C. ____
  •     West Gallery, PH
  •  Drawing with Water
  •     West Gallery, PH

2019
  • WXXX
  •     West Gallery, PH
  • RoughPrint Pop-Up
  •     North London Darkroom, UK
  • Things We Make
  •     Underground Gallery, PH

2018           
  • How to survive as an artist in the metropolis’/ ’Could it be a park bench?’
  •      Tate Exchange, Tate Modern
  •       London, UK

2017
  • Ingress/Egress
  •     Underground Gallery, PH
  • As Far As Near As Deep  And Wide And Tall
  •     Galerie Roberto, PH
    A Collage Show

  •     Underground Gallery, PH
  • Fresh Cut, New Blood
  •     MO_Space, PH
  • Per Square Inch
  •     The Drawing Room, PH
  • Obscurities
  •      two-man show with Isabel Santos
  •      Finale, PH
  • Melted City 4
  •     Blanc Gallery, PH

2016
  • The Out Sounds from the Way In: Imaginary Album and Music Show
  •     Vinyl on Vinyl, PH
  • Binding
  •     Blanc Gallery, PH

2015
  • But where do we put it?
  •     West Gallery, PH
  • The In Image From the Way Out
  •     Underground Gallery, PH
  •  Dry Rub
  •     Pablo Post Gallery, PH
  •  Naked Lunch
  •     Altro Mondo, PH
  •  You Are Here
  •     Vinyl on Vinyl, PH

2014
  • Book Ends
  •     Blanc Gallery, PH
  •  Gathered Narratives
  •     Silverlens Galleries, PH

2013
  • Tones of Home
  •     Blanc Gallery
  • The Mona Lisa Project
  •     Cultural Center of the Philippines
  •     with West Gallery, PH

2012
  • Through the Looking Glass: José Rizal
  •     Manila Contemporary, PH
  • Hairy Things
  •     Pablo Gallery, PH
  • Lightbombs Contemporary for Art East Island
  •     Hong Kong, HK
  • Pulp Fiction
  •     Artinformal, PH




Selected Art Fairs
2024
        West Gallery for ALT Philippines, PH
        Silverlens Gallery, MONO8 Gallery, and Galeria Paloma
                for Art Fair Philippines, PH

2023
         West Gallery, MO_Space, and MONO8 Gallery for Xavier Art Fest, PH

2022
          MONO8 Gallery for Visayas Art Fair, PH

2019
  • Flipping Out
  •     MO_Space for Art Fair Philippines, PH
  • West Gallery for Art Fair Philippines, PH

2017
  • West Gallery for Art Fair Philippines, PH

2016
  • 12x9
  •     West Gallery for Art Fair Philippines, PH
  • Objects, Paintings, Sculptures
  •     MO_Space for Art Fair Philippines, PH