José Santiago Pérez is an artist and educator based in Chicago who traces his ancestry to the Nawat people of Kuscatlán (El Salvador). He weaves plastics into containers of time, vessels of memory, and spaces of belonging. He is a 2019-2020 HATCH resident at Chicago Artists Coalition and a recipient of a SPARK grant and an Illinois Arts Council Agency grant. José has presented craft and performance based work in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston. Features and reviews of his work have appeared in Artforum, Basketry+ Magazine, Sixty Inches from Center, Newcity Art, Art Intercepts, Other Peoples Pixels, and the Archives + Futures Podcast. José holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches in the Fiber and Material Studies department.
