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Oscar Miguel Santos is a multi-disciplinary artist, composer, musician, event organizer, and educator who has exhibited and performed in North America, Europe, and Japan. Oscar has been creating video, sound, and performance work since 2002.
EDUCATION
2013 M.A. in Education – Computers and Educational Technology, California State University Northridge
2005 Visual Arts Teaching Credential, California State University Northridge
2002 B.A. in Art + B.A. in History, University of California Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 1884: An Experiment in Sound and Color, Eighteen-Thirty, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2014 Native Strategies: N (enter) S, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Confusion is Sex #3, Sepulveda Dam Basin, Burbank, CA
2012 HR IN JAN, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Tour d’Arts, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Thank You Rosekind, Mark Golamco, Rachel Mason, Oscar Santos, Human Resources, Los Angeles CA
2010 Gutted, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Bicycle Bell Ensemble Workshop, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
2010 Little Tremors: An Exhibition of L.A. Artists, Atelierhof Kruezberg, Berlin, Germany
2010 Peform! Now! Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Luz Y Sombra (An Eletro-Bilingual-Opera), Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2010 Sister Mantos and Trevy Trevwa, Bradford Playhouse, Bradford, UK
2009 TRAUERMUSIK, Eighteen Thirty, Los Angeles, CA
2009 In Accordance with Necessity, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
2009 100, Sugar Hair Salon, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Negative Charms, The Company Art, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Coxpon Ambient Tent / Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary
2008 Human Resources, The Company Art, Los Angeles CA
2008 Is It Music?, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles CA
2008 Thank Tank 2008: Going Public, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, CA
2006 The Dream Show, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Money is No Object, AMProject, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Die Prof. Winkler Kunst-Und Literaturtage, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Black Dragon Society, Apex Art, New York, NY
2004 LA’s Illest Artists, Davies Residence, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Oscar Santos)
2003 3D 7DEEP, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Works Space, Moon Residence, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Swan Moon)
2002 Trance Plants, The Latch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Ry Rocklen)
2002 Nick Lowe + Oscar Santos, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Face Off, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Hannah Greely)
2000 Spoils, Coleman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
CURATORIAL
2014 Programming Committee Member, HRLA Human Rescources Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (ongoing)
2012 Cool World Party LA, nomadic, Los Angeles, CA (ongoing)
2013 Confusion is Sex #3 (co-organized with Dino Dinco and Dawn Kasper), Sepulveda Dam Basin, Burbank, CA
2010 Confusion is Sex #2 (co-organized with Dino Dinco and Dawn Kasper), The Other Side, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Confusion is Sex (co-organized with Dino Dinco and Dawn Kasper), Pieter, Los Angeles, CA
LECTURES, PANELS & OTHER ACTIVITIES
2014 Guest Lecturer, Visual Media and Social Justice – Arts Education Undergraduate Practicum, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2013, Guest Juror, Graphic Arts Final Critique, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
2013 Guest Lecturer, Educational ‘App’ Design, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
2003 Panel Member & Instructor in ‘Taking Flight: Migration Dreams’ presented by
L.A. Commons and The Institute for Urban Research and Development, Mac Arthur Park, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Workshop Instructor at ‘MAK Day 2004: Fashion Statement’ at the MAK Center, West Hollywood, CA
2001 UCLA Creative Team Member in ‘MAKING’ presented by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
COLLECTIONS
Dean Valentine Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Elat Leviton Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA