Santiago Martínez Bringas

Santiago Martinez Bringas Born in Mexico City in 1976, and since 1988 has been living in the municipality of Los Cabos. As a child, he was involved in politics regarding unionization of workers along with his parents who leaders in the faculty of the Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M) Autogobierno (Self-Governance department) focused on social engagement, which had a great effect on Santiago.

Academic credits: Architecture. Cultural Managament.  Territorial Management.    

In 2000, begins an exploratory processing many areas: mix – media – alternative, visual arts: Performance, Installation, Land_Art, Povera, Social_art, literature, conference speaker, spoken word poetry, wherein his creative inspiration is the tensile integrity structure to find different representative ways to transmit his work through intervention (public_space / airwaves) and architectural conceptual ideas.

Principal Collective Exhibitions

· Architekturforum oberosterreich, Center for Contemporary Art Dametzstr, Linz Austria.

· Representative of the Mexican Network of Organic Markets at Cooper institute / Prince Edward Island, food security network and Falls Brook Center, New Brunswick, Canada.

· Awarded prizes for the 5th and 6thBaja California Sur Visual Arts Biennale. Mexico. 

· Selected work for the Northwest Mexican Regional Visual Arts Biennale. Sinaloa.

· V Meeting history and anthropology about Baja California Sur.

· Local government grant for the project: nomadic Workshop creating art from solid waste. 

· Certified: Workshop Citizen Observatory ISO 18091.

· Invited speaker at annual writers meeting “Octuber´s Moon” La Paz City, BCS, Mexico.

· Annual participation: Urban Forum/Municipal Urban Planning Institute. Arts- Performance.

· Government grant: 1st Edition 2ndEdition 3th: Rural Interaction Project, and Transdisciplinary art production. A temporary residence. Itinerant exhibition and published catalog.