ALE SANTOS (b. 1996, Mexico City) is a Berlin-based artist known for her multilayered collage practice using gold leaf, mirrors and experimental media, featuring through optical illusions and horror vacui, her admiration for the diversity found in Nature.
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 Cut Out Fest; in 2019 she started to pursue independent art workshops across Mexico, experimenting with printmaking, tattooing, stop-motion animation, muralism, oil and watercolor painting, professional drawing, natural pigments, interior design, ceramics, performance, and installation; from 2022 to 2025 she founded Punto Espacio, producing large-scale wall art and murals incorporating wood, copper, cement, laser-cut elements, and lighting; in 2024 she relocated to Berlin, where she works on a large scale collage serie.
EDUCATION:
2017 Instituto Allende - Fine Arts Workshops
2017-2019 Tecnológico de Monterrey - Animation and Digital Arts (change of major)
2019 Vancouver Film School - Futuristic User Interface Diploma
2019 ARTE 7, Querétaro - Experimental Animation
2021 Printmaking workshops in Armadillo Gráfico and La Buena Impresión, Oaxaca de Juárez- woodcut, lithography, aquatint, etching.
2023 Various independent workshops in San Miguel de Allende – muralism, patinas, ceramics.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
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 Safe Space, Collective Exhibition, Biblioteca Pública, 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
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
RESIDENCES/GRANTS:
2026 59th International Meeting of Naïve Artists Trebnje, Slovenia