José Santiago Pérez (b. Los Angeles) is an artist and educator based in Chicago and Pittsburgh. He is a 2025 Regional Artist-in-Residence at Contemporary Craft, a 2024 Fiber Fellow at Colorado College, an Illinois Arts Council Agency Artist Fellowship Finalist in Craft, a 2022 Lunder Institute for American Art resident fellow, and a 2019-2020 HATCH resident at Chicago Artists Coalition. Their work has been supported by an Illinois Arts Council Agency grant, an Individual Artist Program grant from the City of Chicago, and a Chicago Artists Coalition SPARK grant. José has presented solo and group exhibitions across the country. Features and reviews have appeared in Artforum, Basketry+ Magazine, Sixty Inches from Center, Newcity Art, and the Archives + Futures Podcast. He received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in Studio Art at the University of Pittsburgh. José has held teaching appointments in the Art Department at Colorado College and in the Fiber and Materials Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Headshot: Aiyo Cheboi
Image: José Santiago Pérez, Franklin Commonwealth, 2024, hand-netted nylon, mylar, plastic beads, and silicone, 48" diameter (photo by WM Artist Services)
(updated 2025)
SPARK Microgrant
HATCH Projects