MARIGOLD SANTOS

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Marigold Santos was born in Manila, Philippines, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1988. She pursues an interdisciplinary art practice that includes painting, drawing, sculpture, tattoo, and sound. Her work examines notions of heritage and cultural identity, folklore, motherwork, and decolonization, and are presented within the otherworldly. Her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and tattoo work explore self-hood and identity that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation and empowerment, as informed by diasporic experiences. She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University. She was long-listed for the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2023 and 2024 and was recently awarded the inaugural ART SG Futures Prize at Art Singapore 2026. Her joint exhibition and collaborative works with Rajni Perera Efflorescence/The Way We Wake has toured from Fondation Phi (Montreal, 2024), Contemporary Calgary (2024), and Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon (2025). She maintains an active studio practice and gratefully resides in Treaty 7 Territory, in Mohkinstsis/Calgary.

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