Marigold Santos pursues an inter-disciplinary art practice that includes painting, drawing, sculpture, tattoo, and sound. Her work examines notions of heritage, folklore, motherwork, and decolonization, and are presented within the otherworldly. Her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and tattoo work explores self-hood and identity that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation and empowerment, as informed by diasporic experiences. She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University. She is a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, and was long-listed for the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2023 and 2024. Her recent solo exhibitions include OF ARMOUR BESPOKE, OF FABRIC, OF SKIN, OF WITHIN / BINUBUO NG PASADYANG PROTEKSYON, NG TELA, NG BALAT, AT NG KALOOBAN (2024) at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, the pace and rhythm of time, floating / ang tulin at kumpas ng oras, lumulutang at the Patel Brown Gallery and Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2023), and exhibited her works in her works in the notable Relations – Diaspora and Painting (2020), both at the Fondation Phi in Montreal, with Relations – Diaspora and Painting exhibiting at the Esker Foundation in 2021. Her joint
exhibition Efflorescence/The Way We Wake with Rajni Perera curated by Cheryl Sim which previously exhibited at the Fondation Phi (2023) and Contemporary Calgary (2024-2025) will open at the macLYON in France in the Fall of 2025. She continues to exhibit widely across Canada and internationally and is represented by Patel Brown Gallery in Toronto and Norberg Hall in Calgary. She maintains an active studio practice and gratefully resides in Treaty 7 Territory, in Mohkinstsis/Calgary.