The Blank Conversation | Meeting Oscar Santillan | 23 – 26 Ottobre 2015
a cura di Claudia Santeroni

Secondo artista straniero a partecipare al progetto The Blank Conversation, Oscar Santillan, artista dell’Ecuador di stanza ad Amsterdam, ha trascorso il suo soggiorno a Bergamo in un momenti di grande fermento culturale della città. Opening, studio visit e conversazioni con artisti e curatori hanno contraddistinto la sua permanenza, caratterizzata inoltre da un public talk organizzato presso BACO – Base Arte Contemporanea.

Oscar Santillan
Nato nel 1980, Ecuador

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015
The Messenger, solo exhibition curated by Simone Menegoi, Galleria Mazzoli at Spazio Calderara (Milan, IT)
Per4m, Performance section of Artissima (Turin, IT ). Represented by Copperfield (UK)
Lekker Licht, curated by Eelco Van Der Lingen, Centraal Museum (Utrecht, NL)
The Morning I Killed A Fly, curated by Chiara Ianeselli, Galleria Mazzoli (Modena, IT)
Oscar Santillan received an MFA degree in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University – VCU; attended residencies at Skowhegan and Seven Below; and, taught both at the US and Ecuador. He is in residency at the Van Eyck Academie in The Netherlands. His work has been exhibited at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MX), Marilia Razuk Gallery (BR), The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art – SECCA (US), Oud-Rekem castle (Belgium), Centro de Arte Contemporáneo – CAC (EC), Fundación ODEON (CO), Havana Biennial (CU), VOGT Gallery (US), Bonnefanten Museum (NL), DPM Gallery (EC), The Ridder (NL), OPTIONS – Biennial of the Project of the Arts (US), Munikat (DE), Cuenca Biennial (EC), among other venues.