About

Arvie Santos (b. 2000, Taytay, Rizal, Philippines) is an artist working across scenography, costuming, and visual arts. A cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman with a BA in Theatre Arts major in Technical Theatre and Design, his practice explores spatial storytelling and how material, movement, and space shape narrative.  His work operates at the intersection of scenography, performance, and visual art, treating costume as extensions of the body and site as an active collaborator in meaning-making. He is currently developing Maligno: Wearable Bodies of a Place, a site-responsive wearable art practice that explores Philippine mythological “maligno” as place-based spirits. The project investigates how costumes can emerge from and respond to specific environments through locally sourced, found, and excess materials, transforming space, memory, and labor into embodied forms.

Recently, he served as the Associate Set and Costume Designer for Ballet Philippines’ Paglalakbay: The Journey of the Sea People. After graduating in 2024, Arvie designed a scenic installation for Museum of Migration and Memory, presented at the International Federation For Theatre Research conference. In September 2025, he participated in Sincerely Yours, The Philippines - Festival for Dance, Performance, and Karaoke at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Germany, where he collaborated as Festival Installation Designer and also worked as a Costume Collaborator Designer for the performance of Brown Madonna. He also assisted in developing Polyp, an art installation for Linden New Art Gallery in Melbourne, Australia back in October-November 2025. His evolving work blurs performance and visual art, inviting audiences to experience and reimagine shared spaces. 

Info

alsantos8@alum.up.edu.ph
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