ALE SANTOS (Ciudad de México, 1996) is a Berlin-based artist who works with collage, drawing, and animation to explore dreams, memories and emotions.
BIOGRAPHY
Ale has worked as a digital artist and animator since 2017, with work featured in books, festivals, documentaries, Olympic campaigns, and international brands including Autodesk and Aurigo Software.
In 2019 she started to exhibit her personal work across Mexico, while working also with printmaking, muralism, interior design and installation.
In 2024 Ale relocated to Berlin as a freelance artist.
RESIDENCES/GRANTS:
2026 59th International Meeting of Naïve Artists Trebnje, Slovenia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2026 Art Against Ecocide, Collective Exhibition, Colectivo Aquí No Alemania, K-19, Berlin, Germany
2026 We are not Labels, Collective Exhibition, For Everyone, Berlin, Germany
2026 Winter Show, Collective Exhibition, LiteHaus Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
2024 So Weit So Gut, by Sonia Lazo, Collective exhibition, Gallerie Neukolln, Berlin, Germany
2024 Art Pop Up, Collective Exhibition, Motif & Wine, Berlin, Germany
2023 & Friends Pop Up, Collective Exhibition, Saiko, San Miguel Allende, México
2023 Ancestres, collective exhibition, Galería Municipal, Querétaro, México
2021 Simulacros para Desbloquear la Existencia, collective performance by Salma Carbajal & Dea López, Calvario 305, Oaxaca. México
2021 Zapping Universal Para el Reinicio del Mundo, collective exhibition, Galería Libertad, Querétaro, México
2020 Body Painting 100 Cantinas Tradicionales, collective exhibition, Cantina Guelatao, Querétaro, México
2020 Board Dripper Mural Night, collective exhibition, Galería Baldío, Querétaro, México
2019 SQNX, audiovisual performance, Museo de Querétaro, México
2019 La Máscara de Numen, shortfilm presentation, Teatro de la Ciudad, Querétaro, México
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2027 Too Much, Solo Exhibition, Gravity Bar, Berlin, Germany
2023 Rezos & Ruedas, Solo Exhibitions, La Cabaña Azul, San Miguel Allende, México
2022 Punto Espacio, solo exhibition, Amapola, San Miguel Allende, México
2021 Satán Solita, solo exhibition, Casa de la Contracultura, Querétaro, México
CURATED EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Flores, collective exhibition, La Cabaña Azul, San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato, México
2023 Safe Space, Collective Exhibition, Biblioteca Pública, San Miguel Allende, México
EDUCATION:
2022-2024 Practicum of muralism, patinas and ceramics for interior design in Punto Espacio, San Miguel Allende
2021-2022 Printmaking workshops in Armadillo Gráfico and La Buena Impresión, Oaxaca de Juárez- woodcut, lithography, aquatint, etching.
2019 ARTE 7, Querétaro - Experimental Animation
2019 Vancouver Film School - Futuristic User Interface Diploma
2017-2019 Tecnológico de Monterrey - Animation and Digital Arts (change of major)
2017 Instituto Allende - Fine Arts Workshops