ABOUT
Santino Gonzales is a multidisciplinary artist from Los Lunas, New Mexico. His video and installation works draw on motifs found in ufology, adobe, and radio to explore feelings of connection across space and time. Gonzales’ art practice reveals throughlines between technology, land, and the unknown. His work positions these modes of cultural analysis within their broader legacies of resilience, resurgence, and wonder.
Gonzales received his BFA from the University of New Mexico & his MFA from California College of the Arts. He is a recipient of the Dedalus Foundation Fellowship, & currently works with the Interpretive Media team at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Tino also composes & performs original ambient music, while floating between the Bay Area & the high desert of New Mexico.
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Exhibitions & Work
2023 Sitting on Chrome, Producer - Short Documentary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2023 Variations on a Beam, Publication, Deep Time Press, Berkeley, CA
2023 Fronteras Micro Film Festival, Group Exhibition and Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM
2023 Slow Connection, Exhibition & Radio Installation, Pallas, San Francisco, CA
2021 Faded Discs, Online & Terrestrial Radio Series, Wave Farm Arts Organization, Hudson, NY
2021 Meio Cura 2021, Exhibition & Print Publication, Flotar Artist Program, Nepopualco, México
2021 Hui, A Verb as a Proxy for Place, Online Exhibition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021 Revisited, Group Exhibition, Root Division - San Francisco, CA
2020 Into the Clouds: New Media Art, Publication, CICA Museum, CICA Press - Gimpo, South Korea
2020 6th International Exhibition on New Media Art - Clouds, Group Exhibition, CICA Museum - Gimpo, South Korea
2020 Bookfair, album mastered by Louie Lino of Resonate Studio & released on cassette through Aural Canyon - Austin, TX
2020 Playing With Scale, Publication, Hubbell St. Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2020 Digital Room, Group Exhibition, Slash Arts - San Francisco, CA
2019 Backbend, Group Exhibition, Embark Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2019 Here, Now Gone, Group Exhibition, Art in General - Brooklyn, NY
2019 Missed Connections, Canyon Cinema Cinemazine Issue #6, printed publication, SFABF - San Francisco, CA
2018 Abduction, Canyon Cinema Salon Cinema Rendezvous, short film group exhibition - San Francisco, CA
2018 No Place Else: Dystopian Sci-Fi Imagining, Group exhibition, Hubbell St. Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2018 lullabies for molecules, album mastered by Louie Lino of Resonate Studio & released on cassette through Aural Canyon - Austin, TX
2016 Self-released album - compassion fatigue, mastered by Warren Hildebrand of Orchid Tapes - Austin, TX
2015 Original Scores for Short Films: Needless to Say & Remember His Name - Directed by Marah Wilson
2014 Through a Student's Eyes, Judge Museum of Heritage & Arts - Los Lunas, NM
2013 Underground Symposium for Electronic Arts, Tan Gallery Albuquerque, NM
2012 2pacalypse Now, Solo Exhibition John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
Education & Awards
2020 MFA, California College of the Arts
2012 BFA, art studio, magna cum laude, University of New Mexico
Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship
Ada Wester Fine Arts Endowment
Helen S. Pearce Memorial Scholarship