Amanda Santos is a mixed media artist based in Southern California. She graduated with her MFA in 2025 from Cal State University San Bernardino. Santos utilizes ceramics, glass, and paper fiber in a bright and colorful palette to make a world of imaginary viruses and bacteria. The work is a display of her coping mechanism as she navigates the remnants of the pandemic and new anxieties from our current political upheaval. It is a deliberate act of whimsical resistance against the viruses and political structures that have and continue to hold power. 

Santos has shown in the greater Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties: most notably in her MFA thesis exhibition “Adaptive Compulsion" in Fall 2025. She is also an experienced educator and is currently an adjunct professor of ceramics at Chaffey Community College. Santos enjoys her work as an instructor and values the opportunity to pass on her knowledge and help her students cultivate new and meaningful works of art.