ALE SANTOS (b. 1996, Mexico City) is a Berlin-based collage artist working with experimental media such as gold leaf, mirrors, textured painting, animation, and automatic drawing to channel different emotional states; shaped by collective and community-based practices, her work brings together layered realities of time, materials, and symbols, using confusion, distraction, change, and chaos as active conditions to hold multiple emotions, thoughts, and realities at once, while treating art as a sustained practice of presence, honesty, and play.
EDUCATION:
2017 Instituto Allende - Fine Arts Diploma
2017-2020 Tecnológico de Monterrey - Animation and Digital Arts
2019 Vancouver Film School - Futuristic User Interface Diploma
2019 ARTE 7 - Stop Motion & Experimental Animation
2021 Various independent workshops in Oaxaca City – printmaking: woodcut, lithography, aquatint, etching.
2023 Various independent workshops in San Miguel de Allende – muralism, copper/wood/clay wall art, patinas, ceramics.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2024 So Weit So Gut, by Sonia Lazo, Collective exhibition, Gallerie Neukolln, Berlin, Germany
2024 Summer Concert, Collective performance, Hosek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2024 Art Pop Up, Collective Exhibition, Motif & Wine, Berlin, Germany
2023 Safe Space, Collective Exhibition, Biblioteca Pública, San Miguel Allende, México
2023 Atrium, Collective exhibition, Fábrica La Aurora, San Miguel Allende, México
2023 Rezos & Ruedas, La Cabaña Azul, San Miguel Allende, México
2023 & Friends Pop Up, collective exhibition, Saiko, San Miguel Allende, México
2023 Ancestres, collective exhibition, Galería Municipal, Querétaro, México
2022 Punto Espacio, solo exhibition, Amapola, San Miguel Allende, México
2022 Simbiosis, collective performance by NataliaCarrazco, Matamoros Centro Cultural, Oaxaca. 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
2021 Satán Solita, solo exhibition, Casa de la Contracultura, 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