Beatriz Santos
Beatriz Santos (b.1996, Lisbon) is a multimedia British-Portuguese artist based in London. She uses painting, papier mâché, film and poetry to explore everyday subjects drawn from life and the themes of intimacy, migration, play, domesticity and sadness. Framing is central to her practice – as a historical tradition, creative act, and as a conceptual problem.
In 2024, Beatriz received a Painting MA (distinction) from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, and was awarded a place on the Dean’s List for academic excellence. She is the winner of the 2025-6 PADA Bursary,
the 2024 Dolbey Travel Scholarship, the Royal Academy’s 2023 Richard Ford Award, the 2023 Slade Print Fair Scholarship. Before her degree at the Slade, Beatriz completed an English BA at Clare College, Cambridge, and then Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art. Since graduating, she has exhibited internationally at Gallery A26, Beijing; DaSein Gallery, Shenzhen; the London Art Fair; MOODRN Art Fair, Guangzhou and reA! Art Fair, Milan.
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
Group & Duo Exhibitions
2026 Soft Witness: 50 Stories of Us, Roha Gallery, London, UK (upcoming)
Epigeal, Unit 2, St Leonard’s, UK
Pada 56, Pada Gallery, Barreiro, Portugal
ART.ABERDEEN 2026, Hong Kong, China
2025 Moordn Art Fair, Guangzhou, China
The Artist’s Corner, 55 Eastcastle Street, London, UK
APT: Thresholds, London, UK
BAD ART: Fandom, SES Gallery, London, UK
Moments, Purist Gallery, London, UK
Cheeky London Launchpad, London, UK
Plant a Lamppost in the Exhibition, Street Study Group, London UK
The Summer Day, Silian Gallery, London, UK
What the River Brought Me, Week 45 Collective, London, UK
ReA! Art Fair, Milan, Italy
Babydoll, Home on Me Collective, Indra Gallery, London, UK
Glimpse, Unit 2, St Leonards, UK
Painting Progress, Coningsby Gallery, London, UK
beyond the prize, Mall Galleries, London
FORESHORE , SET Woolwich, London
The Touch of an Invisible Hand, Home on Me Collective
The Poetics of Reconfiguration, Gallery A26, Beijing, China
wharf warble, RAW Labs, London
Christine Ankaoua and Beatriz Santos, ArtULTRA, London Art Fair, UK
Porphureos, DaSein Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2024 To Tips of The Rabbit’s Fur, 11 Contemporary, Shenzhen, China
Filthy Fox Auction Club vol. IV, Sarah Kravitz Gallery, London, UK
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)
2023 Interim Show, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK
Remnants, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK
2021 Drawing In // Drawing Out, hARTSlane Gallery, London, UK
Awards & Residencies
2026 PADA Residency, Lisbon, Portugal
PADA Bursary Recipient
Monte da Japónica Residency, Alentejo, Portugal
2025 Can Serrat Residency, Barcelona, Spain
wharf warble, RAW x Bow Arts Residency, London, UK
2024 Dolbey Travel Scholarship, 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
2026 Freelance Illustrator for Una Gota De Agua by Pablo Antonio Torres (publication upcoming)
“Soft Witness: 50 Stories of Us,” review by Leon Kuo, GQ Taiwan
2025 “daSein Asks: Beatriz Santos,” interview by Jieyu Chung
“The gallery championing female artists at London Art Fair 2025,” by Melvin Boateng in NE Londoner
2024 “London Art Fair Artist Profile,” interview by Alice Black in ArtULTRA
“Playing Beyond the Canvas: Beatriz Santos,” interview by Zehra Marikar in Home on Me Collective
2023 Freelance Illustrator for Blink Films, London, UK
2021 Freelance Illustrator for Cocoon Films, London, UK