Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist who works primarily through the expanded moving image. She works with the camera because it is a device that is particularly attuned to the improvisational and aesthetic intelligence that is already at work in the world. Her films and videos are populated by thoughtful non-actors and developed through her writing, structured improvisation, and at times, chance operations. This work is built upon intersecting histories: Boalian theatre and experimental ethnographic film, and her recent work is focused on simultaneous narration, the anti-colonial unconscious, and the subjective experience of disorder.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Oriana in PIVO, São Paulo, the 34th Sao Paulo Biennial, the Momenta Biennale in Montreal; Her work is part of public and private collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, Kadist and Guggenheim. She has received a Creative Capital grant, a USA Fellowship, a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts and the 2021 Artes Mundi Prize (which was shared among all 7 nominees)