Oscar Santillán

Oscar Santillán (Milagro, Ecuador – 1980) His education began in the early 2000’s as a self-taught artist in his native Ecuador. Those formative times were deeply shaped by working within collective environments. Throughout the years those experiences have remained alive in his practice in the form of collaborations with scientists and other curious minds. In 2011 he obtained an MFA in Sculpture from VCU—Virginia Commonwealth University, in the US; and, consequent fellowships have allowed him to be an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan (US), Jan van Eyck (NL) Ratti Foundation (IT), Delfina Foundation (UK), and Leiden Astronomical Observatory (NL). More recently, he have been one of the igniters setting ‘órbitat’ in motion, a platform for the encounter of art, science, and technology in Latin America.