Oscar Santillan

(Ecuador / Netherlands)

Oscar Santillán is an artist and founder of the ANTIMUNDO studio, based between Amsterdam and Quito. His practice emerges precisely from the idea of ​​'Antimundo', a cybernetic matrix where science, fiction and non-human perspectives meet.

In 2011 he received an MFA from the Department of Sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University (USA). He has been a senior researcher at the Davis Center for AI (USA), a researcher at NIAS (NL), and is currently an advisor at De Ateliers Amsterdam (NL).

He has been a resident at institutions such as Jan van Eyck (NL), Fondazione Ratti (IT), Delfina Foundation (GB), the Leiden Astronomical Observatory (NL), and Skowhegan (USA).

Her solo exhibitions include MUAC (MX), Kunstinstituut Melly (NL), Radius CCA (NL), Copperfield (GB) among others. And, her group exhibitions include institutions such as LACMA (USA), Yokohama Triennale (JP), NRW FORUM Düsseldorf (DE), SongEun Art Space (KR), MacAlline Art Center (CN), Irish Museum of Modern Art (IE), among others.

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Credits images of work

Chewing Gum Codex, 2020. Installation (an astronaut's genetic material contained within plants)

Forecast, 2021 (detail). Sculpture (plants that live thanks to the glow of the end of the world)

Planetarium, 2018 (detail). Sculpture (ceramic made with the exact composition of the soil of the planet Venus)