Luis Antonio Santos (b. 1985) is a visual artist based in Quezon City, Philippines. His practice explores memory, entropy, isolation, and longing through painting and photography.
Santos employs techniques such as oil painting and different forms of printing and image manipulation via the use of digital and analog means to investigate the relationships between these mediums and their ability to reflect the shifting nature of recollection. He incorporates utilitarian and ubiquitous materials as metaphors for memory, space, and identity, emphasizing their transient and mutable qualities. By layering and altering imagery, he examines how memories are preserved, distorted, or lost over time.
He has been exhibiting since 2010 with solo shows in Singapore (Fost Gallery) and Manila (Silverlens Gallery, West Gallery, Blanc Gallery, Finale Art File, MO_Space, Artinformal and the Drawing Room). He has also been included in several group exhibitions in Manila, New York (Jane Lombard Gallery), Hong Kong (Art Basel), Singapore (Art SG), Beijing (Tang Contemporary), Athens (Athens Video Art Festival), and Malaysia.
In 2024, he received the Cultural Center of the Philippines's Thirteen Artists Award. He won the Fernando Zobel Prize and the Embassy of Italy Purchase Prize for the Ateneo Art Awards 2023. He was also a finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2023. He has been shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards twice (2014, 2015) and was nominated for the Singapore Art Museum's Signature Art Prize (2018).