ALE SANTOS (Ciudad de México, 1996) is a Berlin-based artist who works with collage, painting, drawing, and animation to explore dreams and emotions.

BIOGRAPHY

Ale has worked as a digital artist and animator since 2017, with work featured in books, festivals, documentaries, Olympic campaigns, and international brands including Autodesk and Cut Out Fest.

In 2019 she started to pursue independent art workshops across Mexico, experimenting with printmaking, tattooing, stop-motion animation, muralism, oil and watercolor painting, professional drawing, natural pigments, interior design, ceramics, performance, and installation.

In 2024 Ale relocated to Berlin to work fulltime as an artist and exhibit her work around Europe.

RESIDENCES/GRANTS:

2026 59th International Meeting of Naïve Artists Trebnje, Slovenia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2026 We are not Labels, Collective Exhibition, For Everyone, Berlin, Germany

2026 Winter Show, Collective Exhibition, LiteHaus Gallerie, Berlin, Germany

2024 So Weit So Gut, by Sonia Lazo, Collective exhibition, Gallerie Neukolln, Berlin, Germany

2024 Art Pop Up, Collective Exhibition, Motif & Wine, Berlin, Germany

2023 & Friends Pop Up, Collective Exhibition, Saiko, San Miguel Allende, México

2023 Ancestres, collective exhibition, Galería Municipal, Querétaro, México

2021 Simulacros para Desbloquear la Existencia, collective performance by Salma Carbajal & Dea López, Calvario 305, Oaxaca. México

2021 Zapping Universal Para el Reinicio del Mundo, collective exhibition, Galería Libertad, Querétaro, México

2020 Body Painting 100 Cantinas Tradicionales, collective exhibition, Cantina Guelatao, Querétaro, México

2020 Board Dripper Mural Night, collective exhibition, Galería Baldío, Querétaro, México

2019 SQNX, audiovisual performance, Museo de Querétaro, México

2019 La Máscara de Numen, shortfilm presentation, Teatro de la Ciudad, Querétaro, México

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023 Rezos & Ruedas, Solo Exhibitions, La Cabaña Azul, San Miguel Allende, México

2022 Punto Espacio, solo exhibition, Amapola, San Miguel Allende, México

2021 Satán Solita, solo exhibition, Casa de la Contracultura, Querétaro, México

CURATED EXHIBITIONS:

2024 Flores, collective exhibition, La Cabaña Azul, San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato, México

2023 Safe Space, Collective Exhibition, Biblioteca Pública, San Miguel Allende, México

EDUCATION:

2023 Various independent workshops in San Miguel de Allende – muralism, patinas, ceramics.

2021 Printmaking workshops in Armadillo Gráfico and La Buena Impresión, Oaxaca de Juárez- woodcut, lithography, aquatint, etching.

2019 ARTE 7, Querétaro - Experimental Animation

2019 Vancouver Film School - Futuristic User Interface Diploma

2017-2019 Tecnológico de Monterrey - Animation and Digital Arts (change of major)

2017 Instituto Allende - Fine Arts Workshops