José Santiago Pérez is an artist and educator based in Chicago who weaves plastics into containers of time, vessels of memory, speculative portals, voids of desire, and spaces of belonging.

José Santiago Pérez (b. Los Angeles) is an artist and educator based in Chicago. He is 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 at the Colby College Art Museum, and a 2019-2020 HATCH resident at Chicago Artists Coalition. His work has been supported by an Illinois Arts Council Agency grant, a DCASE 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 a Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture and Visual Thinking 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.