Artist curriculum vitae
Geraldo Dos Santos (b. 1993, The Netherlands/Brazil) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves through the unstable terrains of santeria, hauntology, and belonging. His work operates in the thresholds between memory and mythology, intimacy and collectivity, the familiar and the uncanny. Rooted in migration and transcultural experience, Dos Santos engages the past not as something fixed, but as an unsettled archivefragmented, haunted, and reactivated through ritual, naratief, and form. His research pursues the fragile intersections of identity and heritage, where personal memory collides with collective histories, and where cultural legacies both bind and estrange. Working across painting, material sculptures and installation, he employs multiplicity as method. His installations, in particular, foreground tension, between ritual resilience and vulnerability, material and immaterial, spiritual and corporeal. Rather than offering coherence, they cultivate ambiguity: an “emulsion” of symbols, gestures, and materials that resists resolution, instead revealing the porousness of memory and tradition. At the core of his practice lies an inquiry into unstable relationships, between people and places, myths and migrations, care and loss. Through this, Dos Santos positions art as a site of rupture and re-assembly, where narratives of belonging can be both questioned and reimagined.
Live in Rotterdam (NL).
Atelier practices Rotterdam (NL), and Lima (PE).
Education
2023-2025 Willem de koning Academie (NL), Art education.
2022-2023 Master Sint Lucas Antwerp (BE), Autonomous context (graduated Cumlaude)
2016-2020 Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL), Fine-Arts (graduated).
2015-2016 Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL), pre-course.
2011-2014 Academia Bellas Artes (PE), ARTES PLASTICAS (painting department)
Residency
2022 Talent Programme OBJECT Rotterdam, (NL)
2019 URBANIAHOEVE, Amsterdam (NL). (Workshop)
2017 Kunsthal Rotterdam (NL).
2014 Rex Gifford Vitrales, Lima (PE).
2013 El Colegio Médico del Perú (CMP), Lima (PE)
Exhibitions
2026 Art Rotterdam - Represented by Josilda da Conceicao Gallery - Rotterdam/Fair (NL)
2026 The Seasons - Josilda da Conceicao Gallery (NL) (Duo-show Mel Chen)
2025 TO BE Antwerp – 10th Edition (Group Show), Antwerp (BE)
2025 Makersmomenten - kunstgarage Franx Zoetermeer (NL) - Group show
2025 The Gesture of Giving- kunstuitleen Rotterdam (NL) - Solo show
2025 Chopwed vow - WDKA Gradutionshsow, Rotterdam (NL) - Group show
2025 Antwerp Art - With Josilda Da Conceicao Gallery. Antwerpen.(BE) Duo show
2025 Groepstentoonstelling Capital C tijdens AAW25, Amsterdam (NL) - Group show
2025 Nap+ With Josilda Da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam (NL) - Group show
2025 Art Island, With Josilda Da Conceicao gallery. Amsterdam (NL) - Group show
2025 Art Brussels - With Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Brussels (BE) - Group show
2025 DENNEWEG14 - Heden Galerie, Den haag (NL) - Group show
2025 Art Rotterdam - Represented by Josilda da Conceicao Gallery - Rotterdam/Fair (NL) - Group show
2024 ART The Hague - With Heden Galerie, Den haag (NL) - Group show
2024 Antwerp Art - With Josilda Da Conceicao Gallery. Antwerpen.(BE) - Group show
2024 Nap+ With Josilda Da Conceicao Gallery, Sloterdijk (NL) - Group show
2024 Amsterdam art week. ‘’Lacunae’’ Duo-show, Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam (NL) - Duo show
2024 Art Island, With Josilda Da Conceicao gallery. Amsterdam (NL) - Group show
2024 Art Brussels - With Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Brussels (BE) - Group show
2024 Art Rotterdam - With Josilda da Conceicao Gallery - Rotterdam/Fair (NL) - Group show
2023 TO BE Antwerp – 8th Edition (Group Show), Antwerp (BE)
2023 Teach me to forget ! - Arttelex Antwerp (BE) - Solo show
2023 Sint Lucas Antwerp (BE), Autonomous context MFA (BE) - Group show
2023 Spring board Art fair / Utrecht (NL) (Group-show) -Solo Show
2023 The end of Highlights - Josilda da Conceicao Gallery (NL) Duo-show
2023 Art Rotterdam - Represented by Josilda da Conceicao Gallery Rotterdam/Fair (NL) - Group-show
2022 Big ART Nederlands - ART FAIR(NL) - Solo show
2022 ‘Celebraco’’ Represented by Josilda da Conceicao Gallery Amsterdam (NL) (Group-show). - Group show
2021 Amsterdam art week. ‘’NO PART Of THIS’’, Josilda da Conceicao Gallery - Amsterdam (NL) Group-show.
2021 ‘’CLOSE UP, UP CLOSE’’ FWB.Agency Amsterdam(NL) - Solo show
2021 Artlodge Gallery, Antwerp (BE) (Online-show). - Solo show
Jul-Aug 2020 Rietveld Graduation show, Amsterdam (NL). - Group show
2019 TEXEL SEA Project, Amsterdam (NL). - Group show
2019 Galerie Hofman, Spijkenisse (NL) - Solo show
2018 Ithaka Art Festival XXVI, LOKO, Leuven (BE) (Group-show). - Group show
2018 Galerie Hofman, Spijkenisse (NL). - Solo show
2018 Da Costakade, Amsterdam (NL) Group show
2017 Galerie Hofman, Spijkenisse (NL). - Solo Show
2014 El Colegio Médico del Perú (CMP), Lima (PE). - Solo show
2014 Mail museo, Lima (PE) - Group show
2014 EL BOSQUE, Lima (PE) - Group show
2013 Panamericana-ART, Lima (PE) Group show.
2013 ‘’BURDAS ‘’ Municipal de Chaclacayo (PE) Solo-show.
Awards & Grands
2025 Nomination - De Kunst van het Ontwerpen 2025 - NHL Stenden Hogeschool leeuwarden (NL)
2014 Panamericana-ART young talent Awards, Lima (PE).
Publications
2025 Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender (NL)
2024 Sub Art magazine 33 Edition, Interview , Lissabon (Pr)
2023 Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender (NL)
2022 Het Parool, Big ART- Opkomende kunstenaars. (NL)
2020 Het Parool, 4x Bijzondere kunst op de afstudeerexpo van de Rietveld Academie.(NL) (Interview).
2018 Grootnissewaard krant, upcoming artist, Galerie Hofman, Spijkenisse (NL).
2013 El TROME, Artist leaves mark!, Lima (PE) (Interview).
Teaching Art Education Experience
2025 Guest teacher Narrative strategy - Erfgoedfestival Reinwart Academie HBO, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 Guest teacher Narrative strategy WDKA HBO, Rotterdam (NL)
2024 Cultuurschool – freelancer, Rotterdam (NL)
2023 Guest lecture in education context at WDKA HBO, Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Art educator at Jacob van Liesveldt HAVO/Gymnasium, Spijkenisse (NL)
2020 - 2026: Art educator at Scala Rietvelden VMBO/HAVO, Hellevoetsluis (NL)
2022 Art education internship for artists and art education teachers
2020 - 2021: Art educator at Dynamic Activities, Rotterdam (NL)
2011 - 2015: Atelier art teacher at Country Club El Bosque, Lima (PE)
Language
DUTCH (NL)
SPANISH (ES)
ENGLISH (EU)
PORTUGUESE (BR)
"Let the brush strokes touch your soul"
Geraldo Dos Santos