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.
Beatriz Santos
Selected Works
Work Available
dente-de-leão
Esferas (Spheres)
Figueira ao amanhecer (Fig Tree at Dawn)
Arthoods Review
At Arthoods, we are drawn to the quiet sensitivity within Beatriz Santos’ practice and the way everyday materials are transformed into deeply personal visual narratives.Through fabric, found objects, imagery, and painting, the works explore memory, intimacy, and the emotional traces that ordinary objects can carry over time. Fragments of daily life are carefully layered and reassembled, allowing familiar materials to hold a sense of tenderness, distance, and reflection.
As the writer of this text, although we do not come from the same cultural background, I found myself unexpectedly moved by the emotional traces embedded within the works. Certain details, textures, and quiet moments naturally brought me back to memories of my own childhood and personal experiences. It is perhaps within these subtle and often overlooked fragments of everyday life that the works begin to create a genuine emotional connection.Perhaps this is one of the most beautiful qualities of art — even between people from different places and backgrounds, there remains a possibility for shared emotion, reflection, and comfort. It is through this sincerity and quiet humanity that Arthoods is pleased to present the works of Beatriz Santos.
Artist Statement
I am a multimedia British-Portuguese emerging artist based in London. I use oil painting, film, papier mâché, printmaking, and mural installations to explore personal experiences of intimacy, migration, play, domesticity and sadness. Framing is central to my practice – as a European historical tradition, creative act, and conceptual problem. I frame my paintings in elaborate ways with recycled materials and found objects to explore and complicate the perceived boundaries between art and life, fantasy and reality, image and object. In 2025, I began incorporating childhood relics and using my grandmother’s embroidered household linen as painting supports. This year, I developed this further by incorporating mother-of-pearl, jetsam, and industrial litter in my frames. My work bears witness to everyday frustrations exacerbated by ecological crises, like driving in a storm or finding litter on the beach.
Solo & Duo Shows
2027 Gallery Dasein, Shenzhen (upcoming)
2025 The Touch of an Invisible Hand, Home on Me Collective, The Haggerston, London, UK
2025 wharf warble, RAW Labs, London
2025 Christine Ankaoua and Beatriz Santos, ArtULTRA, London Art Fair, UK
2024 Journeys , Spring Up Art Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Shows
2026 Urban Pulse, Gallery Grounds, Southampton, London, UK (upcoming)
2026 Soft Witness: 50 Stories of Us, Roha Gallery, London, UK
2026 Epigeal, Unit 2, St Leonard’s, UK Pada 56, Pada Gallery, Barreiro, Portugal
2026 ART.ABERDEEN 2026, Hong Kong, China |
2025 Moordn Art Fair, Guangzhou, China
2025 The Artist’s Corner, 55 Eastcastle Street, London, UK APT: Thresholds, London, UK
2025 BAD ART: Fandom, SES Gallery, London, UK
2025 Moments, Purist Gallery, London, UK
2025 Cheeky London Launchpad, London, UK
2025 The Summer Day, Silian Gallery, London, UK
2025 What the River Brought Me, Week 45 Collective, London, UK
2025 ReA! Art Fair, Milan, Italy beyond the prize, Mall Galleries, London
2025 FORESHORE , SET Woolwich, London
2025 The Poetics of Reconfiguration, Gallery A26, Beijing, China
2025 Porphureos, DaSein Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2024 To Tips of The Rabbit’s Fur, 11 Contemporary Art Centre, Shenzhen, China
2024 Filthy Fox Auction Club vol. IV, preview at Sarah Kravitz Gallery, London, UK
2024 Take a Seat, ha.lf x Bow Arts Trust, London, UK
2024 MA/MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK
2024 Pistil Collective: Water, Oil, Honey, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2024 Soup, Greatorex Street Gallery, London, UK
2024 The Nomenclature of Colours III, Slade School of Art (online), London, UK
2023 Interim Show, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK
2023 Remnants, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK
2021 Drawing In // Drawing Out, hARTSlane Gallery, London, UK
Awards & Residencies
2026 Monte da Japónica Residency, Alentejo, Portugal
2026 PADA Residency, Lisbon, Portugal & PADA Bursary Recipient
2025 Can Serrat Residency, Barcelona, Spain RAW x Bow Arts Residency, London, UK
2024 Dolbey Travel Scholarship, UCL, UK
2024 Mary Rischqitz Prize, UCL, UK
2024 Bloomsbury Theatre Residency, London
2024 Adrian Carruthers Award, shortlisted, ACME, UK
2024 Crinan Residency, shortlisted, Mall Galleries, UK
2023 1st Prize, Richard Ford Award, Royal Academy of Arts, UK
2023 Slade Print Fair Scholarship, UCL, UK
2023 Richard Ford Residency at the Prado, Madrid
Selected Press
2025 “daSein Asks: Beatriz Santos,” interview by Jieyu Chung
2025 “The gallery championing female artists at London Art Fair 2025,” by Melvin Boaten 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