Helio Santos / Artist Bio
Santos is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans creative coding, information aesthetics, internet culture, and the poetics of technology. Trained in both traditional painting and digital media, his work explores the evolving relationship between systems, perception, and the self in an increasingly networked world.
In 2023, Santos exhibited internationally across leading institutions and experimental spaces. Highlights include:
Unbound Ecology in the Machine Age, Unite London
Computational Realism, The NFT Gallery (London & New York), curated by Vertical Crypto Art
Non-Binary Pavilion, NFT Biennial via Harddiskmuseum at Ultra Super New Gallery, Tokyo
Group shows with Superchief Gallery in Rome and Lisbon
Digital Dreams, curated by Kika Nicolela
Appearances at NFT Art Day ZRH and NFT.NYC 2023, curated by OBJKT
Earlier participations include:
BILIA, the Latin American Biennial of Artificial Intelligence, Mexico City
The NonNFT Summit and NFTGRDN V.I, Mexico City (2022)
FILE Festival and ISEA: Machine Wilderness, Rio de Janeiro (2012)
Santos has also exhibited in immersive digital environments such as Cryptovoxels (Heretique 121) and The Halo by Here&Now.
To inquire about Helio’s available works, contact Michele Colonna at michele@colonnacontemporary.com
Featured Works
Title: Industrial Landscape with a Blue Sky in Shades of Brown and Grey
Archival print on Hahnemühle 310 GMS paper. 24’’ x 24’’
This piece was created using hundreds of landscape images generated by a generative AI model and a custom computer vision algorithm designed by the artist. Comes with paired NFT.
Title generated with a machine learning model of image captions.
Title: Trees Appear Abstract and Isolated, Deliberate the Tones
Archival print on Hahnemühle 310 GMS paper. 17’’ x 17’’
This piece was created using hundreds of landscape images generated by a generative AI model and a custom computer vision algorithm designed by the artist. Comes with paired NFT.
Title generated with a machine learning model of image captions.