• Professional artist, graphic designer and photographer.
• Attended the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
• B.A. in Communications Design from University of Illinois at Chicago
• Represented by Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, Illinois
• Represented by Art@Work program, Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington 2002-2009

BIOGRAPHY - Gloria de los Santos

Currently, her work was represented at the Northeast Washington Arts Council Gallery. In 2005, her artwork was included in the group exhibit, “People, Places, and Perceptions, Contemporary Latino Art in the Northwest”, at the Maryhill Museum, in Goldendale, Washington, from July 16 – November 15^th, 2005.

 Also in 2005, she began “North Country Artist Trails” an open artists’ studio tour in NE Washington.

Her artwork is in private collections in Bermuda, Canada, England and the U.S. She has exhibited her work in Chicago, Colorado, Bermuda, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York State.

Her career began in Bermuda, where she worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for the local newspaper. From there, she worked in advertising agencies and publishing houses in Chicago and Santa Monica, CA, and ran her own graphic design and advertising studio in Falls Village, Connecticut. While in Chicago, she served as a judge for Montgomery Ward’s employee art exhibit. She was the curator for “Brave New Pixels”, an annual computer-generated art show exhibited under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics, (ACM SIGGRAPH) the oldest international computer organization. While living in London, England she was employed as a graphic designer for a large pharmaceutical concern. Her career came full circle when she moved to Los Angeles and began working in special effects for the entertainment industry. Her filmography includes: “Titanic”, “Hollowman”, “Star Trek: Insurrection” and the “Mists of Avalon”, which debuted on the TNT network in July, 2002.

Her parallel career as an arts instructor includes employment with The American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois and UCLA extension where she taught in the Film and Entertainment Dept. Resides in Washington state, with her husband, Dave and two children.