Armig Santos

(b. 1995, Caguas, Puerto Rico)

Armig Santos’ work immerses viewers into the landscape of Puerto Rico as well as overlooked but important episodes from its history. Because much of Puerto Rico’s past is poorly documented, the artist gathers source material from unorthodox internet repositories, such as: outdated blogs; amateur history pages; low-budget documentaries uploaded to YouTube; and photojournalist archives. Santos’ exploration of these obscured histories is an act of subversion against the narratives imposed on the island by both past empires and the contemporary political and education systems.

Santos received a BFA in Painting from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2018. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York City. The first New York solo exhibition of Santos’ work, Yellow Flowers, took place at Calderón in New York City in 2022. Other exhibitions of Santos’ work include: TAMO AQUÍ / WE HERE at Embajada in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2022); NÜ MOON at New Image Art in Los Angeles, California (2022); Nunca es Suficiente at KM 0.2 in Santurce, Puerto Rico (2021); Oh no! The rubber exploded and I don’t have any cat to fix it at Roberto Paradise in Santurce, Puerto Rico (2017); Farándula at Roberto Paradise in Santurce, Puerto Rico (2017). Santos co-curated Papo Colo’s Procesión-Migración in Puerto Rico with the support of MoMA PS1 in 2017. Santos lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico.