Cesar Santos

Cesar Santos is a Cuban-American artist, born in Santa Clara, Cuba and brought up in Miami, Florida. He studied at the New World School of the Arts in Florida, followed by a period training in Florence. Subsequently, Santos moved to New York City, immersing himself in the vibrant art scene. While in New York, he received first prize in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s photography competition, ‘It’s Time We Met’.

A celebrated portraitist, Santos has recently moved beyond representation in his oeuvre, developing an innovative and highly personal style. His paintings and drawings from this new body of work appear simultaneously familiar, evoking the aesthetics of the Old Masters, and unrecognisable, comprised of intangible forms that appear to shift and coalesce throughout each composition.

Santos work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia, including at the Museum of Art and Design, Miami; Palazzo Cipolla, Rome; the Villa Bardini Museum, Florence; National Gallery, Costa Rica; and the Beijing World Art Museum, China. His work features in the collections of significant institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sicily, the New Salem Museum and the Academy of Fine Art in Massachusetts, and the Museum of Design in Miami.

Santos currently lives and works in Florence.

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