1981, Puerto Rico, San Juan

Jorge González Santos lives in Borikén (Puerto Rico). His artistic practice establishes a platform for the recovery of Boricua material culture, in an attempt to create narratives between the indigenous and the modern. In 2014, he founded Escuela de Oficios in response to deliberate absences and the deterioration of educational infrastructure. By proposing a recovery through community regeneration, Escuela de
Oficios creates spaces for collective learning and promotes self-managed education. Its activities are focused on the creation of a mobile program that seeks to promote principles of growth and cultivation rooted in the cycles of the earth. A fundamental approach is to use traditional techniques to manage and work in favor of knowledge that enhances critical situations for the production of knowledge. His work has been presented in solo shows at the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and at the Embassy, San Juan, and he has contributed to exhibitions at LACE, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Chicago Architecture Biennial and documenta 14. González was a 2020-2022 Vera List Center Fellow. In 2022, he was an awarded fellow by United States Artists.