Christine Santos works in graphic design and recently photocopy art, printmaking, and installation. Pulling from state digital archives, diasporic literature, and her digital snapshots, she digitally manipulates and assembles them to address colonial omission, aesthetic failure, and non-imperial formations. Connections to speculative fiction, DIY culture, cyberfeminism, Pop Art, and New Wave graphic design can be made from her work. For example, Archival Densities is an installation series with altered state records from the Digital Archive of Hawai’i to stage fictional events of resistance and image errors of commercial archival media. Image Trace Bounties is another project that reimagines a catalog of Filipino-American literature, visualizing a recall of diasporic history in response to US imperialist amnesia through DIY zines.
Born and raised in Wahiawa, Hawai’i in 1995, Santos completed her BA in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley having been selected for the Art Practice Departmental Citation Award and the Art Practice and Library Printmaking Award. She exhibited Archival Densities at the Worth Ryder Gallery and received the AY 2023 - 2024 Center of Race and Gender Student Research Grant to advance new works in print and installation.
Inquire more about her work at info(at)csantos.xyz