cesar santos

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"Page 18, Michael Vazquez" 12"x9" Oil & Charcoal

"Page 20, Museum Guard" 12"x9" Oil

"Page 24, Walking to Solna" 12"x19.5" Oil

"Page 27, Just Do It" 12"x19.5" Oil

"Page 36, Tourist" 12"x9" Oil

"Page 37, Welcome Home" 12"x19" Oil

"Page 39, Native" Oil 19"x12"

"Page 44, The Chaise" 9"x12" Oil

"Page 41, Wild" 55"x34" Oil & Charcoal

"Page 43, Domesticated" 55"x34" Oil & Charcoal

"Cast" 36"x27" Oil

"Drying Crown Jewel" 28"x32" Oil

Selected Sold Works

(SOLD) "Page 35 Subject" 12.25"x9.5" Oil on Linen

(SOLD) "Page 34 SWAT" 12"x9" Oil

(SOLD) "Page 32 Dana" 12"x9" Oil

(SOLD) "Page 21 Martin" 12"x9" Oil

(SOLD) "Page 30 Junyi" 12"x9" Oil

(SOLD) "Page 16" 15"x11" Oil

(SOLD) "Page 14, Americana" 20"x16" Oil

(SOLD) "Page 5 (Cornell)" 37"x25" Oil

(SOLD) "Of Venus" 31"x46" Oil

(SOLD) "Salvator Artistis" 25"x17" Oil

(SOLD) "Annunciation" 21"x21" Oil

(SOLD) "Across" 50"x31" Oil

(SOLD) "Page 4 (Demet)" 37"x25" Oil/Charcoal

(SOLD) "Page 3 (Venus de Milo)" 37"x25" Oil/Charcoal

(SOLD) "Butterfly" 16"x22" Oil

(SOLD) "The Artist's Wife" 36"x25" Oil

Cesar Santos Biography

Cesar Santos (b. 1982, Cuban-American), art education is worldly, and his work has been seen around the globe, from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sicily, Italy and the Beijing museum in China to Chelsea, New York. Santos studied at Miami Dade College, where he earned his Associate in Arts degree in 2003. He then attended the New World School of the Arts and, just before graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, he dropped out to study abroad and to amplify his understanding of art. In 2006, he completed the Angel Academy of Art in Florence.

Santos’ work reflects both classical and modern interpretations juxtaposed within one painting. His influences range from the Renaissance to the Masters of the Nineteenth Century to Contemporary Art. With superb technique, he infuses a harmony between the natural and the conceptual to create works that are provocative and dramatic.

Selected Awards:

2016

Grand Prize and People's Choice Award, Academy of Realist Art Boston Figure Painting Competition

2014

First Prize, Cosmic Connection, Concept Art Fair

2013

Miami Dade College Hall of Fame Award
First Prize, Grand Central Academy Portrait Sketch Competition

2011

Grand Prize Winner, ACOPAL's open competition

2010

First Place, It's Time We Met Contest, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Selected Exhibitions:

2018

Syncretism (solo), Maxwell Alexander, Los Angeles, CA
Art Miami, Miami, FL
Oasi, Mac N Museo di Arte Contemporanea e del Novecento, Pistoia, Italy
Art Wynwood, Miami, FL
LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Prima Mostra Internazionale di Pastello in Italia, Scuderie Estensi, Tivoli, Italy
Five and Under, Arcadia Contemporary, Culver City, CA

2016

12 By 12 In 12, Arcadia Contemporary, Culver City, CA
Scope, Miami Beach, FL

2015

Cesar Santos Drawings (solo), Waltman Ortega Fine Art, Miami, FL
Context, Art Miami, Miami, FL

2014

Fixation, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL

2013

Incognito, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
The Artist’s Accomplice, Oxenberg Fine Arts, Miami, FL

2012

American Figurative, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
The Figurative in American Art, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary American Realism, Bejing World Art Museum, Bejing, China

2011

Paisajes y Retratos (solo), National Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica
Syncretism (solo), Eleanor Ettinger Chelsea, New York, NY
Beyond Realism (solo), Oxenberg Fine Arts, Miami, FL
ACOPAL Members Show, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Salon International, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2010

New Impressions (solo), Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Champions of Realism, Wendt Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Mas Alla Del Realismo, Galeria Arte Libre, Zaragoza, Spain