Santina received an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017) and was a 2022 AIM fellow at the Bronx Museum of Art in New York. She is a recipient of the 2023 New York State Council on the Arts’ Individual Artist Grant, and plans to create new portraits in her ongoing series Portraits of Women With Their Weight In Dough. She is currently a 2023 mentor for the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Program.
Santina’s work has been exhibited and screened at Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, PA, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, MOCA Tucson, AZ, Here Arts Center, NYC, Governors Island Art Fair, NYC, and the Kuntshalle Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, MI. She has received funding from city and state agencies in New York and Illinois, and the Australian Council for the Arts among others. Her work has been included in publications such as Chicago Artist Writers, Emergency Index, Psychology Tomorrow Magazine, CreateMagazine, and Lenscratch.