Deborah Santoro

Deborah Santoro engages visual and material strategies to unravel outdated methodologies that imply we are separate. The interstitial spaces between drawing, printmaking, and lens-based ways of looking forge pathways into neural networks, creating new narratives that allow for multispecies to flourish in a rapidly changing climate. Santoro delves through history to find new futures, and fervently hopes her grandchildren can walk amongst the trees. Santoro has served as the Gallery Director for the University of Massachusetts Lowell since 2014, and as such was recently awarded an Artist Resource Trust grant for the upcoming DRAW Lowell exhibition. For her personal work she was honored with ‘Best in Show’ by curators Lauren Szumita and Marie Picard Craig for Juniper Rag’s PULP exhibition in April 2024. Santoro holds a BA in Studio Art from Wellesley College and an MFA in Studio Art from the Maine College of Art & Design.