Marigold Santos (b. 1981, Manila, Philippines; lives and works Calgary City, Alberta, Canada) immigrated from the Philippines to Canada with her family in 1988. She pursues an inter-disciplinary art practice that gathers notions around heritage and cultural identity, folklore, motherwork, labour and decolonization, which integrate the natural world and are presented within the otherworldly. Her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and tattoo work emphasize self-hoods and identities that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation and empowerment as informed by diasporic experiences. She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University. She was long-listed for the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2023 and 2024 and was recently awarded the inaugural ART SG Futures Prize at Art Singapore 2026. Efflorescence/The Way We Wake, a co-created work with Rajni Perera is currently on view at the 61st Venice Biennale, In Minor Keys, by Koyo Kouoh.  She maintains an active studio practice and gratefully resides in Treaty 7 Territory, in Mohkinstsis/Calgary.