Eder Santos Lives and works in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), b. 1960

Eder Santos, 1960, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.

Lives and works in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.

Eder Santos is a video artist, moviemaker, screenwriter and graphic designer. He was one of Brazil’s multimedia art pioneers and is recognized worldwide for developing hybrid projects that bring together visual arts, cinema, theater, video art and the new media. His trajectory merges with that of the beginning of the audiovisual production in plastic arts in the 1980s, moving between the standards established by television and the experiments on amateur video art. He’s been awarded several times in Brazil and abroad, having participated in many editions of the World Wide Video Festival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Videobrasil, and São Paulo’s Biennial. His works are a part of important collections in Brazilian as well as foreign institutions such as the Itaú Collection, the Museums of Modern Art in Bahia, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, MOMA – The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami, USA). Eder Santos has also built an awarded career as a movie and TV director and producer. He is the author of 15 short-films, 3 feature films, as well as TV series.