Oscar Santillán

Oscar Santillán is an artist and cybernetician living in The Netherlands and Ecuador. His early career was deeply shaped by working within collective environments, and he continues to collaborate with a diverse ecology of knowledge producers ranging from scientists to non-human-beings.

Oscar is embarked in a long-term project oriented to rediscover lost episodes of the history of science in Latin America, understanding that these attempts require seamless mutations between indigenous cosmologies, disrupting technologies, and sci-fi imaginaries.

He has been an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation (UK), Leiden Astronomical Observatory (NL), Van Eyck (NL), Ratti Foundation (IT), and Skowhegan (US). Oscar holds an MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University (US), and he teaches at AKV|St.Joost (NL). 

The work of Oscar has been exhibited at the 7th Yokohama Triennale (JP), MUAC (MX), LACMA (US), NRW FORUM Düsseldorf (DE), Kröller-Müller Museum (NL), Socrates Park (US), 22 Bienal de Arte Paiz (GT), FRAC Île-de-france, Paris (FR), Kunstinstituut Melly (NL), Museo de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá (CO), Ballroom Marfa (US), IMMA (IE), among others.

And, Oscar is one of the igniters of ‘órbitat’, a platform embracing expanded forms of knowledge production in the Americas.