About

Arvie Santos (b. 2000, Rizal, Philippines) is an artist working across scenography, costume, and visual art. 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 through material, movement, and site-responsive forms. His works treat costume as an extension of the body and space as an active collaborator in meaning-making.

Recently, he served as the Costume Designer for Ballet Philippines' 1001 Nights and Associate Set and Costume Designer for Paglalakbay: The Journey of the Sea People.  After graduating in 2024, Arvie designed a scenic installation for the 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 worked as Festival Installation Designer and Associate Costume Designer for Brown Madonna. He also assisted in developing Polyp, an installation for Linden New Art Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, in late 2025. As the Associate Costume Designer for Brown Madonna, he joined the production's international tour at Never Work Festival at Sophiensæle, Berlin, Germany (2026), and Festival Theaterformen in Braunschweig, Germany (2026). 

He is currently developing Maligno: Wearable Bodies of Place, a site-responsive wearable art practice that explores the Philippine mythological concept of the maligno. 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. 

Info

alsantos8@alum.up.edu.ph
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