Jon Santos

Jon Santos is the principal of Common Space Studio, a NYC based design studio and Ontopo, a contemporary art platform that incubates performative and site specific artworks between Hawaii and New York City.  He is the director of communications design for artist Anicka Yi, a long time collaborator who together with Josh Kline produced work as the Circular File collective from 2007 to 2009. He designed and edited Werner Herzog’s Whitney Biennial installation in 2012 and in 2016, he developed original artworks in collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas for the first artist run super-pac (For Freedoms).

He is currently an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and was a former visiting artist at Saint-Lukas Academy in Brussels, the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, OXBOW / SAIC in Chicago, California College of Arts in San Francisco, and was a guest lecturer at the American Institute of Graphic Arts in Washington D.C.

Santos was nominated for a James Beard Foundation award for Outstanding Restaurant Graphics and was a recipient of an AIGA Gold Medal. His work has exhibited widely in group exhibitions at BAM, NY, Walker Art Center, MN and the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, NY and has presented his work at the AIGA, Rising Minds and Pecha Kucha in New York City and his work has appeared in the New York Times, VMagazine, Dossier Journal, Paper, Casa Vogue, Bidoun, the Fader, Casa Brutus, Communication Arts, +81 and I.D. Magazine.

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