Photographer. Interdisciplinary Artist. Educator. 
 
email: amarisecarreras@gmail.com

website: Amarise Deán Santo






CV/RESUME

EDUCATION
BFA, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, Richmond, VA Graduated 2018
Honors/Awards: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship 2019, Best in Show Award 2018,
Senior Project Grant 2017
Major: Fine Arts, Photography and Film



EXHIBITIONS

Hidrante, La Piel Muda del Tiempo, March 2024- July 2024

The Center, Divine Queerness: Forms and Tools: Methods of Healing, June 2023- September 2023

The Museum of New York, Photography Triennial: New York Now, Home, March 2023-September 2023

The Washington Projects for the Arts, sowing worlds within the incompossible, March 2023

El Museo del Barrio, Domesticanx, October 2022-March 2023

Blue Sky Gallery, Nene sin patria (Our mothers’ hands became our homes), The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon, September 2022

Visual Arts Center of Richmond- Annual Artist Residency Show, Mira Miru, March-April 2022

En Foco 2021 Fellowship, Wallworks, Bronx NY, In Between Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, June 2021

Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, New York: Word, Image, Object, December 2020-January 2021

Isla.colectivo, Bogotá, Colombia : Itinerant Photographic Screening: Donde lo oscuro sangra hacia la luz , December 2019 -2020



AWARDS

The Museum of New York, exhibition + panel honorarium, January 2022

El Museo del Barrio, Domesticanx, exhibition honorarium, October 2022

Blue Sky Gallery, exhibition honorarium, September 2022

MOMA Education Department, visiting artist honorarium, July 2022

Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Annual Artist Residency, September 2021- June 2022

En Foco Inc. Photography Fellowship, 2021

iLYSM 4 Artists Grant, Week 6 Recipient, April 2020


PUBLICATIONS

Arte À Mesa, Diálogos entre arte e comida na América Latina, May 2023

The New Yorker, Spring Preview: Art, March 2023

Mosaic, Literary Freedom Project, June 2023

ESTE, Óptica No.3, November 2022

En Foco, Nueva Luz, Photographic Journal Volume 25:1, Front Cover, June 2021

ISO Magazine, SOLACE, NYU Photography Department, Spring 2021

Aperture Magazine, Utopia, Winter Issue 24, December 2020