Fulfilment Center Innocence, 2019 - 
Feminist Readings of Industrial Architecture in so-called Mexico, PhD Research, 2024 -
publicaciones vaca peluda, also known as hairy cow press,  2024 -
Biquini Wax EPS, 2024 -

 

Residencies 
De Appel Curatorial Program, with Biquini Wax EPS, Amsterdam, 2024-2026
M4, with Biquini Wax EPS, Amsterdam, 2024-2025
Art Educators in Residency, documenta fifteen, Kassel, June - July 2022
Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, September 2021 - June 2022
Central de Proyectos, Faculty of Architecture at La Salle University, Mexico City, April - November 2013
 
Curatorial
Si no encuentra lo que busca pregunta: La aparente inconsecuencia de las ficciones cotidianas, open-maik, Biquini Wax EPS, Mexico City, September 2026
Teatro Antiblanquita, open-maik, Biquini Wax EPS, Mexico City, January 2026 
BWookshop: where we sell everything except books, with Biquini Wax EPS, Rijksakademie, July 2026
Land Assembly, with BWEPS, rori, natascha, de Appel, June 2026
BWookshop: where we sell everything except books, with Biquini Wax EPS, Harvest Festival, M4, May 2025 
La Comedora de Mugre, open-maik, Biquini Wax EPS, Mexico City, December 2024
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Selected Exhibitions
Harvest Festival, de Appel, Amsterdam, June 2026
Harvest Festival, de Appel, Amsterdam, June 2025  
Marwan, Living Room, group show, Fulfilment Center Innocence, video-essay, Amsterdam, June - July 2024
Qwerty, Mexico City, 2024
Museum Tamayo, symposium ‘Arte y Destruccion 2023’, Agamben, capitalismo y otros rituales de profanación, lecture-performance, with Leila El-Kayem, Mexico City, March 2023
documenta fifteen,  Art Educators in Residence open studios, Hafenstrasse 76, Kassel, July 2022
Difficult Heritage, Decolonizing Architecture, group show, Intimate Tales of Cybernetic Labor and Racial Desire at the Port of Rotterdam, lecture performance, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, May 2022
The In-Between, Las Estiradas: A feminist sci-fi manifesto of space, graduation show, Piet Zwart Institute, Hofbogen, Rotterdam, June 2021
Borderland, Rituals of Profanation or Memory of a memory of a memory, installation, group exhibition, MIARD, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, December 2019
The Middleman, group exhibition & symposium, Exhibition Research Lab, Lectorate Art Theory & Practice, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, May 2018
Writing Art open studios, Lectorate Art Theory & Practice, The Immortal, performative reading, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, December 2017
Selection of Best Works - Faculty of Architecture, El Cubo, installation, group show, La Salle University, Mexico City 2009

Publications
Vega de Santiago, D. (2023). An In-formed matter of race: transduction, intuition and desire. Simondon’s theory of individuation in relation to FC labor and to Ahmed’s queer phenomenology of race, essay, as part of the seminar ‘Human Nature & the Technical Object, Reading Simondon’, led by Cécile Malaspina at The New Centre for Research & Practice
Hartono, I., Imamura, T., Nurul, A., Vega de Santiago, D. (2023). 'Part 7: Post-documenta15: Where Do We Stand? A Moderated Public Conversation with ruangrupa, the Curators of documenta fifteen'. In Gržinić, M., Pristovšek, J. (Eds.). Political Choreographies, Decolonial Theories, Trans Bodies (pp. 254-280), Cambridge: Cambridge Publishers
Vega de Santiago, D. (2022). Fulfilment Center Innocence: Intimate Tales of Cybernetic Labor and Racial Desire at the Port of Rotterdam, DAAS platform
Vega de Santiago, D. (2021). ‘The Circus of Essential Work’, e-flux Architecture, Workplace
Vega de Santiago, D. (2021). ‘Las Estiradas: A feminist manifesto of space’ , [graduation project, Piet Zwart Institute], MIARD Archive
Polli, A., Vega de Santiago, D. (2021). ‘Ephemeral Matters: interview with artist Andrea Polli’, Volume, Implicit Futures (59)
Vega de Santiago, D. (2020). ‘The Slufter: Ejection, Rejection and Abjection’, MIARD Archive
Vega de Santiago, D. (2020). ‘Google Maps Zoom levels’ [information visualization], en: Grootens, J., Dimitri Jeannottat, D. (2020). Blind Maps and Blue Dots: The Blurring of the Producer-User Divide in the Production of Visual Information, Zúrich: Lars Müller Publishers
Vega de Santiago, D. (2019). ‘Shared Histories: Form and Conflict. A re-reading of Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archeology from Rosalyn Deutsche’s post-colonial feminist aesthetics’, MIARD Archive 
Staal, J., Vega de Santiago, D. (2019). ‘Letters from the Future’, Volume, Playbor (56), pp. 24-29
Vega de Santiago, D. (2019). ‘Loving Gamification, Profaning Gamification’, Volume, Playbor (56), pp. 39-43
Galloway, A., Jepson, G., Vega de Santiago, D. (2019). ‘The Rapture of Play: interview with Alexander R. Galloway’, Volume, Playbor (56), pp. 6-9
Vega de Santiago, D. (2018). ‘The Gamified Society & its Aesthetic Emancipation’, [MA dissertation, Leiden University], LU online student repository

Editorial
En el Cemento no hay porvenir, with Ensayo Imprenta + Editorial, 2026 (upcoming)
La Comedora de Mugre, fanzine, 2024
El bebe lumbung, precarious tales, independent publication in the context of documenta fifteen, edited with: Diana Cantarey, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Bernardo Nuñez, 2022
Volume Talks, with George Jepson, Volume #57 Bye Default, 2020
Playbor, Volume Magazine #56, 2019
 
Educational
Sewing Station, Harvest Festival OT139, Amsterdam, June 2026
art & education Residency, with amebaameba, hairy cow press & I AM: Projects, Oaxaca, Hidalgo & Mexico City, summer 2023
Playbor open-call, with Volume Magazine & MIARD, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, 2020
Promises, Promises: A tech-reality check, winter-school, Media Architecture Biennale 2020 ‘Futures Implied’, Amsterdam & Utrecht, January 2020

Workshops
Two-day workshop and public program ‘Art & Education from the Global South’, with amebaameba, Centro de Artes San Agustín, Oaxaca, August 2023
Collective writing and zine workshop, developed for the Art & Educators in residency program of documenta fifteen, Kassel, July 2022
Decolonial reading group at ‘the nest: architecture of occupation’, with Tomi Hilse, at the entrance of Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, July 2021

Teaching & lectures
Tutor Design, Faculty of Architecture, La Salle University, Pachuca, 2023-2024
Guest speaker, Faculty of Architecture, La Salle University, Mexico City, March 2023
Teaching Assistant, BA Spatial Design, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, January - May 2021
Guest tutor, MA The Critical Inquire Lab, Design Academy Eindhoven, December 2020
Lecture, ‘Gamification and the future of work’, symposium ‘Propaganda Art in the 21st Century’, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, initiated by artist Jonas Staal, Amsterdam, February 2020
Lecture, ‘Participation & Power’, symposium ‘Shared authorship’ as part of the group show 'The Middleman', Royal Academy of Art The Hague, May 2018
Lecture, ‘Chess as Architectonical Space in Lewis Carroll’s Literature’, as part of the symposium ‘Dialogues among students’, Faculty of Architecture, La Salle University, Mexico City, May 2013

Panels & Moderations
Moderator, Critical Inquires, Decolonizing Architecture, Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, 2022
Moderator, Difficult Heritage Summer School publics, Decolonizing Architecture, Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, 2021
Moderator, ‘Participation in the Age of Platforms: A conversation with Jose Sanchez’, online public program ‘What Do We Have in Common’, Tblisi Architecture Biennale 2020
Moderator, panel discussion of public program ‘On Property’ exhibition by artist Remco Toren Bosch, Cargo in Context, Amsterdam, 2020
Moderator, panel discussion ‘gamification and the future of work’, launch of Volume #56 Playbor, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, 2020
Panelist, Architecture of Peace Dialogues, Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, initiated by Volume Magazine
 

Education
Transdisciplinary StudiesCertificate Program, The New Centre for Research & Practice, 2022 - 2024
MA Interior Architecture: Research + Design, Piet Zwart Institute, 2019 - 2021
Lectorate of Art Theory & Practice, Honours Academy, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts at Leiden University & Royal Academy of Arts The Hague, 2017 - 2018
MA Art of The Contemporary World & World Art Studies, Leiden University, 2017 - 2018
BArch in Architecture, La Salle University, Mexico City, 2013 - 2018
 

Grants & Scholarships
 
Apoyo a Profesionales de la Cultura y el Arte para Estudios de Posgrado en el Extranjero, Secretaria de Sciencias, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación, 2025
Collective grant for art & education residency, with amebaameba, by I AM: Projects, 2023
72% Scholarship, Critical Philosophy certificate program, The New Centre for Research & Practice, 2022
Full Scholarship, Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies, Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, 2021
Grant, Schuurman Schimmel-van Outeren Stichting, Harlem, NL, 2020
Holland Scholarship, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, 2019
Academic Scholarship, Faculty of Architecture, Universidad La Salle, Mexico City, 2008-2012


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