Jorge Luis Santos (b. 1973, Quivicán, Cuba) is a Miami-based artist known for his visceral, large-scale abstract works. Santos’s work is deeply connected to his lived experience in Cuba and abroad. As he notes, abstraction “sympathizes more with my spirit and my way of living.” Now considered one of Cuba’s foremost abstractionists, his works have been included in major collections such as the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Museum of Cuban Art Vienna.
In Dilatation, Santos’s debut exhibition with Square One Gallery, he explores the subtle shifts of quiet transformation with the works lingering in the thresholds between tension and release. Through these meditative passages, Santos reveals opening as both an intimate vulnerability and a profound act of strength.