Connected to Puerto Rico via art, poetry and music, Santos and Quiñones voyeuristically look at existence on the island through their works. Making a study of Puertorican artistic production and taking into account the history of art —which inevitably includes European depictions of the Caribbean as Other— they reappropriate the tools of image-making and come up with a local understanding of history, memory and place.
Armig Santos lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2018 he received a BFA in Painting from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño in San Juan, PR. His most recent solo exhibitions include Memoria at Half Gallery, NY (2024); and Yellow Flowers at Calderón Gallery, NY (2022). He has also participated in exhibitions like TAMO AQUÍ/WE HERE at Embajada, San Juan, PR (2023); Nature Holds a Mirror with Ambar Qujano, online (2023); NÜ MOON at New Image Art, LA (2022); Cosmic Connections, Calderón Gallery, NY (2022); and Nunca es Suficiente, KM 0.2, Santurce, PR (2021). His work has also been shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; with one of his large-scale paintings having been acquired by the same. Additionally, Santos co-curated Papo Colo’s Procesión-Migración with the support of MOMA PS1.
Based in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Quiñones has a BA in Communication from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Santurce. Quiñones recent solo exhibitions include Everything I had But couldn’t keep at Recinto Cerra, PR (2023); A Brief Narration of the Destruction at KM 0.2, San Juan, PR (2023); Bajo el cielo… Sobre la tierra at MUSAN, Santurce, PR (2022); Me Llaman at Dragon Crab Turtle, St. Louis, MO (2022); Entre Sueños, Entidades at Amor Fuego, Santurce, PR (2021); and In the Peak of Fana at POP Projects, Santurce, PR (2020). A selection of group exhibitions includes GENERATION NEXT at El Schomburg, Chicago, IL (2024); PINTURA CONTEMPORÁNEA DE PFKNR at Publica, San Juan, PR (2024); Subasta 2024 at MAPR, San Juan, PR (2024); Charismatic Goods at CANADA, Tribeca, NY (2024); Puto Calor at Souvenir, San Juan, PR (2024); Arcadian Revival at Macedonia Institute, Gante, NY (2024); among others.
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