Mariana Santos

Mariana Duarte Santos was born in 1995 in Lisbon, Portugal. She studied at an arts specialised high school and later went on to study drawing and printmaking at university.

She’s had group and solo shows in Portugal, Spain, U.S.A., U.K. and in Ireland.

In 2019 she painted her first large scale outdoor mural and to dare has ovr 50 murals throughout Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg and Ireland.

Her work is figurative in nature, centered mainly around painting, drawing and printmating but also influenced by other artistic areas such as cinema and literature.

When it comes to public art, the themes she works on are mostly focused on concepts of memory, collective identity and local stories, thus archive pictures are key in her mural work.