Beatriz Santos
Beatriz Santos (b.1996, Lisbon) is a multi-media artist based in London. Her practice involves making paintings based on her own poetry, often depicting everyday subject matter infused with lyricism. Having completed an English BA at Clare College, Cambridge, Beatriz went on to study Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art. This year she has received a Painting MA at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. She is the winner of the 2023 Richard Ford Award and the 2024 Dolbey Travel Award.
credit: Halena Hucker Photography
Education
2022-24 MA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, Distinction
2021 Drawing Intensive, Royal Drawing School
2019-20 Postgraduate Diploma in History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Distinction
2015-18 BA English, University of Cambridge, 2:1
Solo Shows
2024 Journeys , Spring Up Art Gallery, London, UK (current)
Group Exhibitions
2025 London Art Fair, London, UK (upcoming)
2024 Power of Women, 11 Contemporary Art Centre, Shenzhen, China (upcoming)
Filthy Fox Auction Club vol. IV, preview at Sarah Kravitz Gallery (Nov 20th, 6-9 pm)
and auction at Old Church, Stoke Newington (Nov 30th), London, UK
Take a Seat, ha.lf x Bow Arts Trust, London, UK
MA/MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK
Pistil Collective: Water, Oil, Honey, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Soup, Greatorex Street Gallery, London, UK
The Nomenclature of Colours III, Slade School of Art (online), London, UK
2023 Interim Show, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK
Remnants, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK
2022 Siren Fragments, Cass Art, Hampstead, London, UK
2021 Drawing In // Drawing Out, hARTSlane Gallery, London, UK
Awards & Residencies
2024 Dolbey Travel Award, UCL, UK
Mary Rischqitz Prize, UCL, UK
Bloomsbury Theatre Residency, London
Adrian Carruthers Award, shortlisted, ACME, UK
Crinan Residency, shortlisted, Mall Galleries, UK
2023 1st Prize, Richard Ford Award, Royal Academy of Arts, UK
Slade Print Fair Scholarship, UCL, UK
Richard Ford Residency at the Prado, Madrid
2020 Director’s Prize for best graduate diploma dissertation, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Publications & Commissions
2024 Cuentos bilinguales de alrededor del mundo - Volumen 1 (to be published in 2025)
“Playing Beyond the Canvas: Beatriz Santos,” interview by Zehra Marikar in Home on Me Collective
2023 Artist of the Month, ArtULTRA, London, UK
Freelance Illustrator for Blink Films, London, UK
2021 Freelance Illustrator for Cocoon Films, London, UK
2020 Solitude, Issue No. 2, MyBest Zine, London, UK