Santiago Porter (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971) is an established visual artist with strong local and international recognition. He has been awarded with distinctions and received many accolades, such as the Guggenheim Scholarship (2002), the Fundación Antorchas Scholarship of Buenos Aires (2002), the First Award of Photography by the Central Society of Architects of Buenos Aires (2007), the Petrobras – Buenos Aires Photo Award (2008), the National Scholarship by the National Fund for the Arts (2010) and the Konex Prize for Visual Arts (2023). He was selected to take part in the Intercampos program ay the telefónica Foundation (2007) and the Artist’s Program at the Universidad Di Tella in Buenos Aires (2011). He has published numerous books such as “Pieces” (2003), “The absence” (2007),“Mist” (2017) and “The cloudy days” (2023). He has been featured in important leading national and international publications. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, United States, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland and Egypt. Nowadays, his work is part of important national and international collections such as Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires – MALBA (Argentina), National Museum of Fine Arts – MNBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires – MAMBA (Argentina), Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario – MACRO (Argentina), Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Emilio Caraffa, Córdoba (Argentina), Museum of Art and Memory of La Plata – MAM (Argentina), Museo en los Cerros, Jujuy (Argentina), Museo de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires – MARQ (Argentina), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (USA), JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, (USA), Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris (France), Petrobras Collection (Argentina), Rabobank Collection (Argentina), among others. Santiago Porter is currently a Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of San Andrés and in the Photography Degree at the National University of San Martín.